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• Priest
  ...long-sleeved white coat and a white cap (&nbsp;Exodus 28:40-43). The high priest’s clothing, by contrast, was both distinctive and colourful. </p> ...from Scriptural teaching cannot be claimed. The minister was regarded as a priest in no other sense than was every disciple. Every disciple had access throug
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• Priests And Levites
  ...tter office ceased to be hereditary, and was often bought and sold. A high priest could be deposed, and another appointed for political purposes. One reason ...e sacerdoce levitique </i> (important); W. Baudissin, article "Priests and Levites" in <i> Hdb </i> , IV, for mediating views. The best account in English of
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• Levites
  ...ointment accords with the divine origin of the Jewish law. Jehovah praises Levites as to the past: "My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave the ...; Ezra 3:8-12 . After the revolt of the ten tribes, a large portion of the Levites abandoned their cities in Israel, and dwelt in Judah, &nbsp;2 Chronicles 11
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• Aaron
  ...[Urim]] and [[Thummim]] (Light and Perfection), all point to the true High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ. Aaron's descendants, to the number of 3,700 fightin ...her [[Order]] than his, namely, that of MELCHIZIDECK. See [[Calf]] , See [[Priest]] , See [[Type]] , See [[Ephod]] , See [[Breastplate]] , See [[Urim]] . </p
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• Tithe
  ...irst tithe, to be expended at the tabernacle or temple in entertaining the Levites, his own family, etc., changing it first into money, if on account of his r ...al tithe or a third tenth was to be eaten in company with the poor and the Levites. </p> <p> (These tithes in early times took the place of our modern taxes,
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• Abiathar
  .... Probably the sense is: "in the days of Ahimelech, who was afterward high priest," and under whom the record of the fact would be made. Perhaps too the loav ...mere <i> lapsus memoriae </i> or <i> calami </i> , Abiathar, David’s high priest, being a much more familiar figure than his father, just as in &nbsp;Jeremi
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• Zadok
  ...k appears in Judah (&nbsp;Matthew 1:14). </p> <p> '''5.''' Son of Immer, a priest; repaired over against his own house (&nbsp;Nehemiah 3:29); of the 16th cou ...ealed the covenant (&nbsp; Nehemiah 10:21 ). <strong> 8 </strong> . A high priest later than 1 (&nbsp; 1 Chronicles 6:12 [cf. &nbsp; Ezra 7:2 , &nbsp; Nehemi
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• Priesthood Priest
  ...cus]]; [[Melchizedek]]; [[Offerings And Sacrifices]]; [[Oil]]; [[Christ As Priest]]; [[Tabernacle]]; [[Temple]] </p> <p> <i> Bibliography </i> . J. Baehr, <i ...and Victim in His own person, and, being perfected, is now the great High Priest above for the Christian. &nbsp;Hebrews 4:14-16 . See AARONIC PRIESTHOOD. </
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• High Priest
  High Priest <ref name="term_7426" /> ...cerdoce levitique dans la loi et dans l'histoire des Hebreux </i> . On the high-priesthood subsequent to the return from Babylon, see B. Pick, <i> Lutheran
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• Day Of Atonement
  ...whole people. </p> <p> The Yoma in the [[Mishna]] informs us that the high priest on the day of atonement performed all the ordinary duties, as lighting the ...Version.] ), even ‘into heaven itself,’ where He remains, our great High [[Priest]] and [[Intercessor]] (&nbsp; Hebrews 7:25 f.). </p> <p> A. R. S. Kennedy.
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• Sacrifice
  ...that night of legalism in later Jewish religion in which the formalism of priest, Pharisee, and scribe, to which apostolic teaching was antithetical, had de ...odus 30:12-16), but, etc. As "Christ offered Himself to God" He was a real priest, having "somewhat to offer" (&nbsp;Hebrews 8:3); but if He had only a figur
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• Ezekiel
  ...sand square miles, including the holy portion for the prince, priests, and Levites, i.e., nearly as large as all [[Judaea]] W. of Jordan. Again, the half of t ...Rules are laid down to ensure their ceremonial purity. The office of high priest is not recognized. And there is no real king. In ch. 37 the ruler, of David
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• Book Of Numbers
  ...ch followed it, when universal approach to God was thrown open by ‘another priest, who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after t ...oses in &nbsp;Numbers 20 . </p> <p> Then after the death of Aaron the high priest, which is the proper end of responsibility and its testing, we have a secon
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• Jehoiada
  ...high priest was "chief governor in the house of Jehovah"; then the second priest; then the 24 "governors of the sanctuary and of the house of God" (&nbsp;Je .... 834. </p> <p> 5. Second priest, or '''sagan''' , to [[Seraiah]] the high priest. &nbsp;Jeremiah 29:25-29; &nbsp;2 Kings 25:18. </p> <p> 6. Son of Paseach,
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• Eleazar
  ...]] </strong> , &nbsp; Ezra 10:18 . &nbsp; Ezra 10:6 <strong> . </strong> A priest (&nbsp; Ezra 8:33 , &nbsp; Nehemiah 12:42 , 1Es 8:63 ). <strong> 7. </stron ...nbsp;1 Chronicles 23:21-22; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 24:28). </p> <p> '''5.''' A priest at Nehemiah's feast of dedication (&nbsp;Nehemiah 12:42). </p> <p> '''6.'''
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• Azariah
  ...[[Babylon]] with Zerubbabel. &nbsp;Nehemiah 7:7. </p> <p> 21. One of the [[Levites]] who assisted Ezra in instructing the people in the knowledge of the law. ...8:7 ( <strong> Azarias </strong> , 1Es 9:48 ), one of those who helped the Levites to ‘cause the people to understand the law.’ <strong> 23 </strong> .&nb
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• Zechariah
  ...spoil he hasteth to the prey".) The other witness was Uriah, or Urijah, a priest, whom Urijah used as his tool in copying the [[Damascus]] altar. (See [[Uri ...13. A Shilonite, descendant of Perez. &nbsp;Nehemiah 11:5. </p> <p> 14. A priest, son of Pashur. &nbsp;Nehemiah 11:12. </p> <p> 15. The representative of th
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• Jerusalem
  ...e daily "sacrifice (&nbsp;Daniel 9:27) ceased" from want of an officiating priest, and Titus again in vain invited to a surrender. On July 15th a soldier, co ...e confusion following his death, which was fomented by [[Ananus]] the high priest, Agrippa II. intervened, and Ananus was displaced, but not before James, th
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• Ezra
  ...nd among the Judæan villages. The ‘holy seed’ (including even priests and Levites) had ‘mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands,’ and ‘the han ...rom God. During this time Ezra was born, and he grew up to be trained as a priest and a scribe. [[Scribes]] were people skilled in writing who made copies of
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• Sanhedrin
  ...ifixion of Jesus show, to say the least, irregularities for which only the high priests (cf. Jos. Ant. VIII. iii. 3, ‘the foremost men’) were responsib ...s regards the <em> composition </em> of the Sanhedrin, the hereditary high priest stood at the head of it, and in its fundamental character it formed a sacer
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• Tithes
  ...he maintenance of the [[Temple]] services and of the attendant priests and Levites. Now there can be no doubt that the apostles and those who spent themselves ...n in this world gain thereby (&nbsp;Proverbs 3:9-10). [[Azariah]] the high priest told Hezekiah: "since the people began to bring the offerings into the hous
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• Nehemiah
  ...s countrymen, he governed without fear or partiality, correcting abuses in high places, and himself setting a bright example of unselfishness and princely .... He had respect for the sabbath, the [[Temple]] and its institutions, the Levites, and tithing. </p> <p> Nehemiah was an unusual person. Nehemiah was a man o
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• Sadducees
  ...ied in this statement, and it is very improbable that a friend of the high priest would be anything but a Sadducee. There is a possibility, then, that the au ...ean" so as to be judges in capital trials; also &nbsp;Acts 5:17, "the high-priest, and all that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees." Besides t
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• Criticism (The Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis)
  ...that Moses could have acted without the official mediation of the official priest. </p> <p> 6. Summary </p> <p> Reasons of space preclude a further discussio
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• The Priesthood
  ...iving from: <ol> <li> One-tenth of the tithes which the people paid to the Levites (&nbsp;Numbers 18:26-28 ); </li> <li> a special tithe every third year (&nb
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• Music
  ...service, which had been neglected in his predecessor's reign, "he set the Levites in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, ac ...(&nbsp;1 Kings 4:32). In the procession accompanying the ark to Zion, the Levites led by Chenaniah, "master of the song," played cornets, trumpets, cymbals,
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• Phinehas
  ...). See Hophni and Phinehas. 3.&nbsp; Ezra 8:33 &nbsp;Ezra 8:33 father of a priest named Eleazar; = 1Es 8:62 Peter <strong> hinees </strong> . </p> <p> A. H. ...n Mount Ephraim which bore his name. After Eleazar's death, he became high priest - the third of the series. In this capacity, he is introduced as giving the
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• Korah
  ...is terrible warning on the survivors of Korah was that the family attained high distinction subsequently. Samuel was a [[Korhite]] (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:22 ...sons of Levi. Their complaint against Moses is different from that of the Levites, and insinuated that Moses aimed at being a prince over them. They were swa
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• Pentateuch
  ...m a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites, and he shall read therein all his life," i.e. he shall have a copy written ...nd brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Ma
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• David
  ...the sabbath, and also Goliath's sword wrapped up in cloth behind the high priest's own ephod (shoulder dress), so precious a dedicatory offering was it deem ...bat with any Israelite who will come out and face him, but in spite of the high reward offered by the king to any one who will slay him namely, great riche
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• Moses
  ...like in all ages, there must have been at least isolated individuals, more high-souled than the masses around them, who strove to live up to the light they ...y and morality of the Pentateuch, which argues not only its truth, but its high original; for how else are we to account for a system like that of Moses, i
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• Amariah
  ...person in both. <strong> 5 </strong> . &nbsp; 2 Chronicles 19:11 , a high priest in the reign of Jehoshaphat. <strong> 6 </strong> . &nbsp; 2 Chronicles 31: ...of the sons of Bani , in the time of Ezra. &nbsp;Ezra 10:42 </p> <p> 6. A priest who returned with Zerubbabel. &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:3; &nbsp;Nehemiah 12:2; &nb
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• Incense
  ...c (Mishna); compare &nbsp;Revelation 8:5. On the day of atonement the high priest, after offering the bullock for himself, took incense in his left hand and ...30:7-9; &nbsp;Numbers 3:10). This restriction prompted [[Korah]] and other Levites to rebel against Moses and Aaron. Moses tested them by telling them to burn
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• Leviticus
  ...f Deut., to the fact that it deeply influenced the thought of Ezekiel. The priest-prophet preserved a book to which he owed so much; and it is not impossible ...he blood was used to cleanse the sanctuary of any sin and uncleanness. The priest then took the other goat, the scapegoat, and confessed the sin of the peopl
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• Deuteronomy
  ...ly breaks the connexion of 26 and 28, and as evidently is composite. The [[Levites]] in &nbsp;Leviticus 27:14 ff. carry out what in &nbsp; Leviticus 27:12 ff. ...ce, the long-forgotten document came to light and was given to Hilkiah the priest. Hilkiah, however, upon examination of the document found it difficult to r
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• Worship
  ...typological interpretation, demonstrated Jesus Christ as the greater high priest (chaps. 5,7), the more perfect temple (chap. 9), and the ultimate sacrifice ...y lengthened this time of penitence and fasting, as a preparation for that high and joyful festival. In these churches they were more inclined to take up a
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• Sacrifice And Offering
  ...ed with frankincense, when it was ready for presentation at the altar. The priest took off all the frankincense, then removed a handful of the dough, which h ...Christ, however, physical sacrifice became unnecessary. As the temple and priest of God, the believer now has the responsibility for offering acceptable spi
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• Books Of Chronicles
  ...n king (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 23:1 ) </p> <p> E. [[Ordering]] the priests and Levites and princes for service (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 23:2-27:34 ) </p> <p> F. Chargi ...l’s [[Baalism]] spread from the north into Judah (21:1-23:21), priests and Levites were again leaders in the reform that got rid of it, the king on this occas
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• Book Of Nehemiah
  ...e temple had been neglected; for the tithes had been withheld, so that the Levites had to go to their fields for support. The sabbath was also desecrated, wor ..., <em> i.e </em> . Darius iii. Codomannus (reigned b.c. 335 331). The high priest [[Jaddua]] mentioned in &nbsp; Nehemiah 12:11 is known from Josephus to hav
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• Judge
  ...local elders in the administration of justice. But subsequently, when the Levites withdrew from the kingdom of the ten tribes, judicial elders probably again ...1 Chronicles 23:4; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 26:29 ). [[Jehoshaphat]] organized a high court of justice (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 19:8 ). The prophets often complain bi
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• Josiah
  ...echariah by God's command took silver and gold to make crowns for the high priest Joshua's head. </p> ...ng the Passover. This gave him the opportunity to organize the priests and Levites according to the order set out by David. He wanted to make sure that the en
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• Meshullam
  ...esentative of the house of Ezra. &nbsp;Nehemiah 12:13. </p> <p> 19. Also a priest, at the same time as '''Meshullam, 18''' , and head of the priestly family ....''' A chief sent by Ezra (&nbsp;Ezra 8:16-21, etc.) to [[Iddo]] to gather Levites to join the caravan returning to Jerusalem. </p> <p> '''11.''' &nbsp;Ezra 1
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• Hilkiah
  ...the law should be made for the king distract from that of the priests and Levites, imply a paucity of readers and of copies (compare &nbsp;2 Chronicles 17:9; ...miah 29:5 <strong> , &nbsp; Jeremiah 29:6 </strong> <strong> . </strong> [[Levites]] of the clan of [[Merari]] (&nbsp; 1 Chronicles 6:45; &nbsp; 1 Chronicles
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• Offering
  ...“In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high” (1 Kings 6:23, RSV). </p> <p> A related noun <em> mishman </em> appears ...nksgivings. &nbsp;Leviticus 7:15. Sin-offerings were presented by the high priest for personal offences, for national sins, and on the great day of atonement
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• Shemaiah
  ...elamite, a false prophet at Babylon, who wrote urging Zephaniah the deputy priest to show his gratitude to God for his promotion to Jehoiada's place by exerc ...dedication of the wall (&nbsp; Nehemiah 12:34 ). <strong> 22 </strong> . A priest, descendant of [[Asaph]] (&nbsp; Nehemiah 12:35 ). <strong> 23 </strong> .
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• Christ As Priest
  ...Shoemaker </p> <p> <i> See also </i> [[Christology Christ]]; [[Priesthood Priest]]; [[Tabernacle]]; [[Temple]] </p> <p> <i> Bibliography </i> . J. Baehr, <i ...-s-evangelical-dictionary-of-biblical-theology/priest,+christ+as Christ As Priest from Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology]</ref>
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• Solomon
  ...mory (&nbsp;1 Kings 10:17), &nbsp;1 Kings 10:100 cubits long, 50 broad, 30 high, on four rows of cedar pillars and hewn cedar beams over the pillars. There ...own worship, a necessary concession, but shared in it; the memory of his ‘high places,’ within sight of his own Temple, was preserved in the name ‘Mou
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• Levitical Cities
  ...n the most significant. The list of cities describes the dispersion of the Levites who were not employed at the large sanctuaries, had no steady income, and w <p> <strong> [[Levitical Cities]] </strong> See [[Priests]] and Levites, § d. </p>
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• Ordination
  ...sed in dedicating sacrifices (&nbsp;Leviticus 1:4), and in setting apart [[Levites]] (&nbsp;Numbers 8:10). Similarly our Lord blessed by laying on of hands (& ...but every one was to have a church, whereof he was to be ordained clerk or priest. In the twelfth century they grew more remiss, and ordained without any tit
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• Government
  ...n Judea and to ensure that they were collected. It was not long before the high priesthood became a political appointment, which was unfortunate for Jews a ...ition was less honourable and less independent than that of king. The high priest (now appointed by the Romans) and the Sanhedrin regained the power which th
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• Samaritans
  ...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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• Uzzah
  ...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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• Firstborn
  ...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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• Sacerdotal Order
  ...aur. vol. 13; Carpzov, Appar. p. 89 sq.; Reland, Ant. Sac. 2, 4 sq. (See [[Priest]]). </p>
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• Zerubbabel
  ...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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• City
  ...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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• Athaliah
  ...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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• Jeshua
  ...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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• Jews
  ...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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• Uzzi
  ..., 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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• Intercession
  ...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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• Education
  ...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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• Pharisees
  ...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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• Captain
  ...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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• Genealogy
  ...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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• Minister
  ...<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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• Ithamar
  ...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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• Synagogue
  ...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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• Micah
  ...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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• The Offerings
  ...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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• Covenant
  ...explain the other. Nor should it be forgotten that, side by side with His high conception of the love of God, Jesus ascribed supreme importance to the Div ...anently establish the renewed covenant. He did this by becoming the High [[Priest]] who offered himself as the [[Passover]] Lamb. He capsulized all this by h
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• Magi
  ...rsant with Persian affairs use the word <i> magus </i> as synonymous with ‘priest’ (Apul. <i> Apol. </i> i. 25, 26; cf. Strabo, pp. 732, 733; Philo, <i> Qu ...y branded him as an impostor. Let it then be remembered, that as "the Most High ruleth in the kingdoms of men," he often overrules great political events f
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• Law Of Moses
  ...p> On this part of the subject, (See [[Festival]]); (See [[King]]); (See [[Priest]]); (See [[Tabernacle]]); (See [[Sacrifice]]), etc. </p> <p> '''III.''' ''D
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• Nethaneel
  ...in the reign of Josiah. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 35:9. (B.C. 628). </p> <p> 8. A priest of the family of Pashur, in the time of Ezra, who married a foreign wife. ( ...] when [[Joiakim]] was high priest (&nbsp;Nehemiah 12:21 ). </p> <p> 10. A priest, one of Asaph's associates, who played a trumpet, in dedicating the rebuild
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• The Book Of Deuteronomy
  ...3). Moses tells us that all the words of this law he wrote and gave to the Levites to be put in the side of the ark at the one time (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 31:9; & ...s people. It calls to faith and action in response to God's acts. It holds high the belief in the uniqueness of God as the only God without rivals. Thus it
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• Ahijah
  ...f himself. His projected night pursuit was consequently prevented; for the priest met his proposal, which was well received by the people, by suggesting that ...Samuel 14:18 is (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] <em> [[Ahiah]] </em> ), a priest, son of Ahitub, who had charge of the oracular ephod and consulted it for S
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• Canon Of The Old Testament
  ...people as a whole ‘make a sure covenant and write it. And our princes, our Levites, and our priests seal unto it’ (&nbsp; Nehemiah 9:38 ). That this Canon i ...rangement and completion of the canon accounts for Ezra's honorable title "priest" becoming merged in that of" scribe." "The synagogue of scribes" (&nbsp;1 M
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• Birthright
  ...st-born of the other tribes were to be redeemed at a valuation made by the priest, not exceeding five shekels, from serving God in that capacity. &nbsp;Numbe ..., </p> <p> &nbsp; Exodus 13:11-16 &nbsp; 22:29; and the firstborn son of a priest succeeded his father in the priestly office. Among the sons of Jacob, Reube
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• Festivals
  ...4:6 ). The rejoicing community included family, servants, widows, orphans, Levites, and sojourners (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 16:13-15 ). </p> <p> The feast began on ...a sheaf of the first-fruits of the barley-harvest was to be brought to the priest to be waved before Jehovah, accompanied by a burnt-offering. Till this shea
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• Zebadiah
  ...riesthood and ecclesiastical interests in the court consisting of priests, Levites, and chief men, over which they jointly presided, and which decided all cau ...8. Son of Michael: he returned from exile. &nbsp; Ezra 8:8 . </p> <p> 9. [[Priest]] who had married a strange wife. &nbsp; Ezra 10:20 . </p>
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• Gerizim
  ...s, cleft by the Jabbok, on the E. Manasseh, brother of [[Jaddua]] the high priest, married the daughter of Sanballat the Cuthaean (&nbsp;2 Kings 17:24), who
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• Malachi
  ...hemiah 13:29, "they have defiled the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites." Thus the closing chapter of Old Testament history is the key of the last ...el who returned to Jerusalem from Babylon and Persia in 536 B.C. came with high hopes. In &nbsp;Isaiah 40-55 the prophet painted a future for those repatri
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• Israel
  ...st.] (&nbsp; Exodus 18:12 ff.), it was Jethro, the Kenite or [[Midianite]] priest, who initiated them into the rite and mediated the covenant. After this the ...nd the kingdom God was to bring to ever fuller manifestation. </p> <p> The high points, as exhibited in the covenant with David, his victories, his just an
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• Hand
  ...easure of four inches a palm applied chiefly to horses as a horse 14 hands high. 4. Side part right or left as on the one hand or the other. This is admitt ...asseh, when he gave them his last blessing, &nbsp;Genesis 48:14 . The high priest stretched out his hands to the people, as often as he recited the solemn fo
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• Sanballat
  ...&nbsp;Nehemiah 4:6) were in league with him. His daughter married the high-priest Eliashib's grandson, Joiada's son; therefore Nehemiah chased him from him ( ...rusalem. The only other incident in his life is his alliance with the high priest's family, by the marriage of his daughter, with one of the grandsons of Eli
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• Palestine
  ...ey and brown and lilac, broken by the most violently brilliant splashes of high colour, where a water-spring flings a patch of lush green vegetation upon t ...spot in Sicily. It forms tufts of triangled smooth stems, six to ten feet high, crowned by atop of pendulous threads; it abounds by the lake of Tiberius.
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• First-Born
  ...t-born of the other tribes were to be redeemed, at a valuation made by the priest not exceeding five shekels, from serving God in that capacity, &nbsp;Number ...s sacrifices, were either to be redeemed according to the valuation of the priest, with the addition of one fifth of the value, and then remain with their ow
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• Money
  ...135 104), with the legend in minute old Hebrew characters: ‘John, the high priest, and the commonwealth ( <em> or </em> the executive) of the Jews.’ The ti ...r example, annual interest rates on silver in Mesopotamia were attested as high as 80 percent. There was a stage when the interest on monetary loans was le
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• Purification
  ...Haggai 2:13; &nbsp;Matthew 23:27; &nbsp;Luke 11:44 ). The case of the high priest and of the [[Nazarite]] (&nbsp;Leviticus 21:1-4,10,11; &nbsp;Numbers 6:6,7; ...of inward purity before admission into God's presence. (See [[Leper]] ; [[Priest; Birth; Nazarite]] ) &nbsp;Leviticus 11:25; &nbsp;Leviticus 11:40; &nbsp;Le
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• Book Of Joshua
  ...ration from the worship of Jehovah, and sent princes with [[Phinehas]] the priest to protest against it, but on hearing the explanation given, they were sati ...ven smaller tribes then received their tribal allotments (18:1-19:51). The Levites, who had no tribal area of their own, were given towns in all the other tri
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• Iddo
  ...g> [[Loddeus]] </strong> ) the chief at Casiphia, who provided Ezra with [[Levites]] and Nethinim. <strong> 2. </strong> &nbsp; 1 Chronicles 27:21 son of Zech ...t Casiphia, to whom Ezra sent for Levites. &nbsp;Ezra 8:17 . </p> <p> 7. [[Priest]] who returned from exile. &nbsp;Nehemiah 12:4,16 . </p>
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• Sanctification
  ...ss for pardon and life, in whose fellowship we are raised to high rank and high responsibility. We sit in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Sin against gr ...orever. Jesus was the fulfillment of the Old Testament offices of prophet, priest, and king. Yet many of these are not numbered among God's faithful. Everyth
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• Sanhedrim
  ...ed causes brought before it by appeal from inferior courts. The king, high priest, and prophets, were subject to its jurisdiction. The general officers of th ..., in the hall "Gazith," but it sometimes met also in the house of the high priest (&nbsp;Matthew 26:3 ), who was assisted by two vice-presidents. </p>
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• Cities Of Refuge
  ...ed local sanctuaries in which a priest served. After the death of the high priest, the one guilty of manslaughter was free to leave the city and return to hi ...&nbsp;Isaiah 26:4 '')'' . Ramoth Gilead, on the site of Ez-Szalt (Ramoth ("high"), so is Jesus to us, &nbsp;Acts 5:31). Golan, Jaulan ''("Joy"; Jesus Is Ou
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• Baptism
  ...back in some degree to OT times; in &nbsp;Zechariah 3:3 f. Joshua the high priest is stripped of his filthy garments as a symbol, and Justin ( <i> Dial </i> ...:23; &nbsp;1 Peter 3:21). </p> <p> Baptism being regarded according to its high ideal, Scripture asserts of its efficacy all that is involved in a believin
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• Jehoash; Joash
  ...ich raised Israel to the zenith of its power. [[Josephus]] gives Jehoash a high character for godliness, but, like each of his predecessors, he followed in
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• The Feast Of Tabernacles
  ...pression [[Priests]] ( '''''כהנים''''' ) occurs, the [[Aaronites]] and the Levites arise, and, after the latter haves washed the hands of the former, the prie
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• Prince
  ...2 Chronicles 11:22 ), the king himself (&nbsp; 1 Samuel 25:30 ), the high priest (&nbsp; Daniel 9:25 ), and is occasionally in AV [Note: Authorized Version. ...e merely a reference to those who through birth, culture, and power hold a high place in the esteem of their fellows. But others find in the passage an all
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• Prophet
  ...His foreknowledge of the Holy Spirit’s descent. And, further, even in His High-Priestly prayer He shows knowledge of the future by pleading for those whom ...shing in pieces His enemies like a potter's vessel with a rod of iron, "it Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek"; severely afflicted, "hands and fee
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• Samaritan
  ...well known parable, a merciful Samaritan is contrasted with the unmerciful priest and Levite. And the very worship of the two races is described by him as di
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