Showing posts with label Priest-Temple-Sacrifice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Priest-Temple-Sacrifice. Show all posts

What’s the big deal with someone staying in the temple?

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Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God.   I was greatly displeas...

Isn’t keeping people out of the temple racism?

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On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ...

Why list the names of all the guilty priests in Ezra?

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Among the descendants of the priests, the following had married foreign women: Ezra 10:18             One, it makes the Bible real because...

Why was it so important to have Levites when rebuilding Jerusalem?

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I assembled them at the canal that flows toward Ahava, and we camped there three days. When I checked among the people and the priests, I fo...

Why would some people not want the temple built in Ezra?

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Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building. Ezra 4:3             While ...

Why was this so emotional for people to see the foundation laid for the temple?

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But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this ...

Why start construction on the temple with the altar first?

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Despite their fear of the peoples around them, they built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the  Lord , bo...

Why did Cyrus release all the articles from the temple?

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Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles belonging to the temple of the  Lord , which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem an...

What does Communion signify?

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While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is ...

When was the temple destroyed?

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As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!” “Do y...

Why would God detest our sacrifices?

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 “The multitude of your sacrifices—      what are they to me?” says the Lord . “I have more than enough of burnt offerings,      of r...

What’s the difference between an offering and a tribute?

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From the soldiers who fought in the battle, set apart as tribute for the Lord one out of every five hundred, whether people, cattle, donk...

What is the Festival of Weeks?

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“On the day of firstfruits, when you present to the Lord an offering of new grain during the Festival of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly an...

Where do they get a red heifer from?

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 “This is a requirement of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish a...

Where did the tithe go to in the Old Testament?

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“I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting…I...

Why did the people redeem the firstborn animals?

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The first offspring of every womb, both human and animal, that is offered to the Lord is yours. But you must redeem every firstborn son a...

Why did the priests eat the offerings?

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You are to have the part of the most holy offerings that is kept from the fire. From all the gifts they bring me as most holy offerings, w...

Why was the budding of Aaron’s staff important?

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The next day Moses entered the tent and saw that Aaron’s staff, which represented the tribe of Levi, had not only sprouted but had budded,...

Why did the Levites need to shave their bodies?

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The Lord said to Moses:   “Take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean. To purify them, do this: Spr...

What were the jobs of the Gershonite, Merarite and Kohathite clans?

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At the tent of meeting the Gershonites were responsible for the care of the tabernacle and tent, its coverings, the curtain at the entranc...