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• Temple Tax

  The temple tax was a payment made by adult Israelite men for the upkeep of the sanctuary (the tabernacle and later the temple) and its worship. It originated in the half-shekel regulation of Exodus and appears in the New Testament in Matthew 17.

• Tribe of Manasseh

  The tribe of Manasseh was an Israelite tribe descended from Manasseh, the firstborn son of Joseph. Because it received land on both the east and west sides of the Jordan River, the expression "the half tribe of Manasseh" came into use.

• Barley Harvest Thanksgiving

  Barley Harvest Thanksgiving (also called Barley Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday) is a Protestant thanksgiving observance named after the Old Testament Feast of Harvest. Korean churches commonly hold a thanksgiving service on the first Sunday of July to reflect on the first half of the year.

• Shekel

  The shekel was a unit of weight used in ancient Israel and also a unit of value reckoned by that weight of silver. It later became the name of a silver coin. It appears frequently in the Bible, for example in the half-shekel temple tax and the thirty pieces of silver.

• Psalm 1:3–6

  The second half of Psalm 1 contrasts the ends of two ways: the righteous person who delights in the law is likened to a tree planted by the rivers of water, and the wicked to chaff driven away by the wind. As part of the introduction to the whole Psalter, the passage is frequently quoted and discussed, particularly regarding the meaning of "prosper."

• Joshua 14

  Joshua 14 opens the distribution of the land west of the Jordan. It sets out the principle by which Eleazar and Joshua divide the land by lot among the nine and a half tribes, and it records how Caleb, at eighty-five, claims the hill country promised to him and receives Hebron as his inheritance.

• Hebrews 13:21

  Hebrews 13:21 is the second half of the benediction that closes the Epistle to the Hebrews (13:20–21). It asks that God equip believers to do his will and is often cited in discussions of how grace relates to human action.

• Tibni

  Tibni was a man whom half the people of the northern kingdom of Israel followed to make him king after the death of King Zimri, and who contended with Omri for the throne. He was the son of Ginath and appears only in 1 Kings 16.

• Job 5

  Job 5 contains the second half of the first speech of Eliphaz the Temanite. In it he urges Job to recognize that affliction does not arise on its own, and that whoever commits himself to God and accepts His chastening will be restored.

• Job 17

  Job 17 is the second half of Job's reply (chapters 16–17) to Eliphaz's second speech. Job laments that death is near, asks God himself to be his surety, and rebukes his friends for their lack of wisdom. At the end he asks where his hope can be in the face of the grave and Sheol.

• Zechariah 9

  Zechariah 9 opens the second half of the Book of Zechariah (chapters 9–14). It proclaims judgment on the surrounding nations, announces a humble king who comes riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey, and promises the release and restoration of the prisoners.

• Latter Prophets

  The Latter Prophets (Hebrew Nevi'im Aharonim) are the second half of the Prophets (Nevi'im), the second division of the Hebrew Bible. The term refers to Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets, books compiled chiefly from the messages delivered by the prophets.

• Daniel 7

  The first chapter of the visions in the second half of the Book of Daniel. It records the vision of four beasts rising from the sea, the little horn, the judgment of the Ancient of Days, and one like the Son of Man receiving an everlasting kingdom, together with the vision's interpretation.

• Ephesians 3

  Ephesians 3 is the chapter in which Paul explains "the mystery of Christ" (that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs) and describes his own ministry of proclaiming it. He then closes the first half of the letter with a prayer for the believers and a doxology.

• Aaron ben Asher

  Aaron ben Asher was a Jewish Masorete active in the first half of the tenth century in Tiberias in Galilee. The last representative of the Ben Asher family, he is known for adding the vowel points and Masoretic notes to the Aleppo Codex.

• Basilides

  Basilides was a Christian Gnostic teacher who taught in Alexandria, Egypt, in the first half of the second century. The Church Fathers treated him as a leading representative of heresy, and they attribute to him the claim that Simon of Cyrene was crucified in place of Jesus.

• Joshua 17

  Joshua 17 records the land west of the Jordan allotted to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It recounts how the daughters of Zelophehad received an inheritance, how the Canaanites were not fully driven out, and how Joshua answered the descendants of Joseph, who complained that their land was too small, by telling them to clear the forest.

• Joshua 22

  Joshua 22 recounts the return home of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, who lived east of the Jordan, after the wars of conquest. A great altar they build by the Jordan brings Israel to the brink of civil war, but the conflict ends when the misunderstanding is resolved through dialogue.

• Amnon

  Amnon was the firstborn son of David, an Old Testament figure who raped his half-sister Tamar and was killed two years later by her full brother Absalom. His story appears in 2 Samuel 13.

• Herod Agrippa I

  Herod Agrippa I was a grandson of Herod the Great and a king who ruled Judea in the first half of the first century. In Acts 12 he is called "Herod the king" and appears as the ruler who killed James the son of Zebedee and imprisoned Peter.