The Ark is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and then numerous times in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Psalms and Jeremiah.

The Book of Judges ( Hebrew: Sefer Shoftim ספר שופטים ) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

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Despite their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.

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In the Christian canon the Book of Ruth is placed between Judges and 1 Samuel.

Sometimes, as in the triumphant Song of Deborah found in the Biblical Book of Judges, these songs celebrate victory.

Several parallel animal fables in Sumerian and Akkadian are among those that Erich Ebeling introduced to modern Western readers ; there are comparable fables from Egypt's Middle Kingdom, and Hebrew fables such as the " king of trees " in Book of Judges 9: 8-15 and " the thistle and the cedar tree " in II Kings 14: 9.

Several years later, with his brother, Isaac, Jacob published the Bible commentary Miklal Yofi by Solomon ben Melekh which included his own commentary, Lekket Shikchah ( Gleanings ), on the Pentateuch, the Book of Joshua, and part of the Book of Judges.

* Manasseh ( High Priest ), the ancestor of a priest named Jonathan, mentioned in the Book of Judges as being the son of Gershom, son of Manasseh

The earliest historical record of militia is found in the Old Testament and particularly the Book of Judges.

The sling is mentioned in the Bible, which provides what is believed to be the oldest textual reference to a sling in the Book of Judges, 20: 16.

Samuel is a judge who leads the military like in the Book of Judges and also who exercises judicial functions.

The Biblical Book of Judges revolves around a succession of leaders who were known as " Judges " ( Hebrew shoftim שופטים ) but who-aside from their judicial function-were also tribal war leaders, leading in war against threatening enemies.

The Book of Judges ( 9: 45 ) says that Abimelech, the judge of the Israelites, sowed his own capital, Shechem, with salt, ca.

In the Book of Judges ( 1: 4-7 ), Adoni-Bezek, ( simply " lord of Bezek "), was a Canaanite king who, having subdued seventy of the chiefs that were around him, was attacked by the armies of Judah and Simeon.

( see the Book of Judges ) With the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite tribes decided to form a strong centralised monarchy to meet the challenge, and the Tribe of Reuben joined the new kingdom with Saul as the first king.

When the post office was formed, Taylor bestowed the current name of the town from the 14th chapter of the Book of Judges, as the place where Samson went to obtain a Philistine wife.

The opera is based on the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah found in Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament.

Although the libretto of Samson et Dalila is taken from Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges, the opera does not include the accounts of Samson's heroic deeds which earned him both fame and leadership among the Hebrews.

Samson, Shimshon (, meaning " man of the sun "); Shamshoun ( /) or Sampson () is the third-to-last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) ( Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16 ).

In the Book of Judges 16: 19 of the Old Testament, Samson loses his strength when his seven dreadlocks are cut from his head.

In the aftermath, the university cleric addressed the town-vs-gown matter with an admonishing sermon ‘ The Philistines be upon thee ’, drawn from the Book of Judges ( Chapter 16, ‘ Samson vs the Philistines ’), of the Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament.

The B. F. White Sacred Harp is published by the Sacred Harp Book Company of Samson, Alabama.

The story of Samson and Delilah is adapted from the Biblical Book of Judges.

It uses a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton, who based it on Milton's Samson Agonistes, which in turn was based on the figure Samson in Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges.

Delilah ( דלילה – Dlila, Standard Hebrew meaning " who weakened or uprooted or impoverished " from the root dal meaning " weak or poor ") appears only in the Hebrew bible Book of Judges 16, where she is the " woman in the valley of Sorek " whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall.

However, the Book of Judges always mentions the years of oppression in contrast to the period of a judge's dispensation ; since the early parts of Eli's rule do not appear to occur during a time of oppression, this appears to rule out any overlap with the Philistine oppression that Samson, a previous judge, had lived under.

Owing to the Book of Judges, in the account of Micah's Idol, describing the tribe of Dan as having used ephod and teraphim in worship, and Samson ( a member of the tribe of Dan ) being described as failing to adhere to the rules of a Nazarite, classical rabbinical writers concluded that Dan was very much a black sheep ; in the Book of Jeremiah, the north of Canaan is associated with darkness and evil, and so rabbinical sources treated Dan as the archetype of wickedness.

Eschatological passages are found in many places, especially Isaiah, Daniel, Matthew 24, Matthew 25, and the Book of Revelation.

The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri.

Didymus reports that the work transmitted as speech 11 of Demosthenes ( Against the Letter of Philip ) could be found in almost identical form in Book 7 of Anaximenes ' Philippica, and many scholars regard the work as a historiographic composition by Anaximenes.

The Devil, death, hell, and those not found written in the Book of Life are then thrown into Gehenna ( the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone ).

The United Methodist Hymnal also contains ( at # 882 ) what it terms the " Ecumenical Version " of this creed — a version which is identical to that found in the Episcopal Church's current Book of Common Prayer.

This form of the Apostles ' Creed can be found incorporated into the Eucharistic and Baptismal Liturgies in the Hymnal and in The United Methodist Book of Worship, and hence it is growing in popularity and use.

As compared with Samuel and Kings, the Book of Chronicles omits many particulars there recorded and includes many things not found in the other two documents.

A total of eight copies of the Book of Daniel have been found at Qumran: two in Cave 1, five in Cave 4, and one in Cave 6.

Parts of the Book of Jeremiah have also been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls in cave 4 in Qumran.

Jerome's Prologue to Jeremiah says he excluded them: " And the Book of Baruch, his scribe, which is neither read nor found among the Hebrews, we have omitted, standing ready, because of these things, for all the curses from the jealous, to whom it is necessary for me to respond through a separate short work.

A fragment of the Book of Isaiah found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Another example of text from the last chapter or epilogue of Job can be found in the book The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, showing examples of how fragments of The Book of Job found among the scrolls differ from the text as now known.

However, the strict acrostic style of four of the five poems is not found at all in the Book of Jeremiah itself and Jeremiah's name is not found anywhere in the book itself ( nor any other name, for that matter ), so authorship of Lamentations is disputed.

This final chapter is a poetic praise of God, and has some similarities with texts found in the Book of Daniel.

Traditional English Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian prayer books have borrowed from the Book of Common Prayer, and the marriage and burial rites have found their way into those of other denominations and into the English language.

As in other places, there has been a reaction and the Canadian version of the Book of Common Prayer has found supporters.

Although much of Chinese philosophy begins in the Warring States period, elements of Chinese philosophy have existed for several thousand years ; some can be found in the Yi Jing ( the Book of Changes ), an ancient compendium of divination, which dates back to at least 672 BCE.

Joseph Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

His most notable work during this period was three animated TV adaptations of short stories from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Brothers, The White Seal and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, and a famous commercial for Kia-Ora which can be found here http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = 5LvLn9PWln8.

These Dianetic " axioms " can be found in Hubbard books such as Scientology 0-8: The Book of Basics and Advanced Procedures and Axioms.

The longest and best known of these is " El Curioso Impertinente " ( the impertinently curious man ), found in Part One, Book Four.

The Book of Tobit has been found in Qumran in four scrolls written in Aramaic and in one written in Hebrew.