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  • ...ned one hundred and twenty-two high priests; affirmed that the Jews had no high priests of the race of Phinehas; and that the Jews belied them in calling t ...of the captive priests to teach them, "how they should fear the Lord." The priest came accordingly, and henceforth, in the language of the sacred historian,
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  • ...carried on the Levites' shoulders, not in a carriage. </p> <p> Even the [[Levites]] (&nbsp;Ezekiel 25:15) were not to touch it, on pain of death. Instead of ...learn moreover the blessedness of our privileges, in having such an High [[Priest]] as the Lord Jesus, in whom, and through whom, we have access to a mercy s
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  • ...stborn; this applies also to those whose wives are daughters of priests or Levites.] in the modern service of prayer of thanksgiving for women after recovery ...not appointed. (&nbsp;Numbers 1:47; Num 3:12-13) And, wherefore, among the Levites this exemption, for it is evident our Lord sprang out of Judah? The whole o
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  • ...aur. vol. 13; Carpzov, Appar. p. 89 sq.; Reland, Ant. Sac. 2, 4 sq. (See [[Priest]]). </p>
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  • ...sed to Zerubbabel. Zerubbabel also restored the courses of the priests and Levites, and appointed for them, the singers, and the porters, maintenance (&nbsp;E ...we learn from Scripture are the restoration of the courses of priests and Levites and of the provision for their maintenance, according to the institution of
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  • ...the ecclesiastical character of the population of Jerusalem, that it was a priest and a [[Levite]] who first passed the man lying wounded and bleeding on the .../strong> , either within its own precincts, as in most cities of note (see High Place), or on an adjoining height (&nbsp; 1 Samuel 9:12 ff.). With due reli
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  • ...lain at the entering of the horse gate by the king's house. Mattan, Baal's priest, was the only other person slain. Her usurpation lasted 883-877 B.C. As she ...stors, and procure the destruction of Athaliah, he engaged the priests and Levites, and the leading men in all the parts of the kingdom in his interest, and i
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  • ...ews 6:17) to reconcile God's justice as a king with His love as father and priest. Only by being pardoned by His priestly atonement and ruled by His kingly l ...&nbsp; Nehemiah 12:24 . &nbsp; Nehemiah 12:6 <strong> . </strong> The high priest who along with Zerub. headed the first band of exiles. In Ezr. and Neb. he
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  • ...which the rabbies have given special directions. The eighth and ninth are high days, particularly the last, which is called the day of the rejoicing of th ...l of Greece, and the Jews exposed to the basest treatment. Mattathias, the priest, with his sons, chiefly Judas, Jonathan, and Simon, who were called Maccabe
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  • ..., chief of the father's house of Jedaiah, in the time of Joiakim, the high priest. &nbsp;Nehemiah 12:19. (B.C. about 500). </p> <p> 7. One of the priests who ...high priesthood of [[Joiakim]] (&nbsp;Nehemiah 12:19). </p> <p> '''7.''' A priest who assisted Nehemiah at the dedication of the wall (&nbsp;Nehemiah 12:42).
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  • ...ations, extinguishes persecutions, consoles the faint-spirited, cheers the high-spirited, escorts travellers, appeases waves, makes robbers stand aghast, n ...job description (&nbsp;Joel 2:17 ). Compare &nbsp;1 Samuel 2:25 . The high priest's task was to make atonement for the people (&nbsp;Leviticus 16:1 ). </p> <
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  • ...re the children sat on the ground, or on low benches, and the teacher on a high chair. At first the child would be exercised in ‘the rudiments,’ τὰ ...henceforth to regulate its whole life, not according to the living word of priest and prophet, but according to the requirements of a written law, it was ind
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  • ...ht with the multitude that if they said aught against the king or the high-priest it was immediately believed, whereas the Sadducees could gain only the rich ...d for piety, learning, and strict observance of the Law. They were held in high esteem among the people (Jos. Ant. XIII. x. 5, 6, XVII. ii. 4). Almost up t
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  • ...en. </p> <p> <b> 2. </b> στρατηγὸς τοῦ ἱεροῦ, the commandant of the Temple Levites. Josephus mentions the ‘captain’ (στρατηγός) of the [[Levitica ...e "chief captain" of the Temple, himself a Levite, having command of the [[Levites]] who kept guard in and around the Temple, &nbsp;Luke 22:4,52; &nbsp;Acts 4
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  • ...bes and families is a divine indication that Christ the antitypical High [[Priest]] and the [[Heir]] of David's throne having come supersedes the polity of t ...exercise their priesthood any more; and that, "till there shall stand up a priest with Urim and Thummim," amounts to the same as the Roman proverb, <em> ad G
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  • ...<p> "to minister in priestly service" (akin to hierourgos, "a sacrificing priest," a word not found in the Sept. or NT: from hieros, "sacred," and ergon, "w ...lied, especially in its verbal form, to the ritual ministry of priests and Levites in the sanctuary, and so by NT times had come to connote the idea of a prie
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  • ...f Ithamar. The high priesthood in Eli's person (probably on account of the high qualities for which he was made judge) passed to the line of Ithamar, but r ...ngest son of Aaron and [[Elisheba]] (&nbsp; Exodus 6:23 etc.); consecrated priest (&nbsp; Exodus 28:1 ff.); forbidden to mourn for Nadab and [[Abihu]] (&nbsp
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  • ...sp;Micah 1:6) "I will make Samaria as an heap" was therefore earlier. The "high places" (&nbsp;Micah 1:5) probably allude to those in Jotham's and Ahaz' re ...d, "Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest." The [[Danites]] however, seeking a larger inheritance, sent spies to the
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  • ...he propagation of religious knowledge among the people-a work begun by the Levites (&nbsp;Nehemiah 8:7; &nbsp;Nehemiah 9:5, &nbsp;2 Chronicles 19:8; &nbsp;2 C ...uncing <em> the priestly benediction </em> , &nbsp; Numbers 6:24-26; if no priest was present, it is said that a layman gave the blessing in the form of a pr
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  • ...ed for ever, and also have access to the holiest, because the great high [[Priest]] has entered in. </p> <p> In the [[N.T.]] offerings are also alluded to in
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