Explore the history of the Tribe of Levi. Learn about Levites in the Bible such as Aaron. Discover facts about the Levites and learn about their...
These books narrate in full detail the story of the preparations made by David for the erection of the temple and of his organization of the Levites. In regard to the reign of Solomon, the Books of Kings report more fully. Concerning the later kings, they generally give only meager ...
(as in the “race” of the Levites or the Argives) but as a surrogate for historical analysis. I argue that we must understand the very great uncertainties “orientalists” of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries faced with respect to Near Eastern chronologies ...
27 Of the Levites: four thousand six hundred, 28 along with Jehoiada, leader of the line of Aaron, with another three thousand seven hundred, 29 and Zadok, a young warrior, with twenty-two princes of his father’s house. 30 Of the Benjaminites, the kinsmen of Saul: three thousand—...
In western Canaan, Simeon was located in the extreme S, and then going northward were the portions of Judah, Dan, Benjamin, Ephraim, part of Manasseh, Issachar, Zebulon, Asher, and Naphtali. To the Levites (assistant priests) were assigned cities W and E of the Jordan, and to the ...
Numbers 7–10 comes “with a focus on the leaders and the Levites,” and Exodus 24 functions as a preface to the Sinai narrative, providing “an interpretive lens for the tabernacle account that follows in subsequent chapters” (240). Through this volume, MacDonald walks through how the ...
Andrews, translated the complete treatise into English for the first time. According to Davila, the treatise claims that the treasures of King Solomon “were concealed by a number of Levites and prophets….[Some] were hidden in various locations in the Land of Israel and in Babylonia, while...
Caleb drove out from Hebron the "three sons of Anak" (Josh 14:12; 15:14); it became one of the cities of Judah (Josh 15:54), but was set apart for the Kohathite Levites (Josh 21:10 f), and became a city of refuge (Josh 20:7). One of Samson's exploits was the carrying ...
“they” both refer to the Levites will quite naturally think that the antecedent of “they” in the last sentence is “brothers” and “children.” The NIV prevents this misunderstanding by substituting a “he” for the literal “they”—“He did not recognize his brothers or acknowledge ...
Ark of the Covenant, in Judaism and Christianity, the ornate, gold-plated wooden chest that in biblical times housed the two tablets of the Law given to Moses by God. The Ark rested in the Holy of Holies inside the Tabernacle of the ancient Temple of Jer