The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

* Genesis creation narrative, the biblical account of creation

They discovered a greater amount of cultural diversity than they had ever imagined, and the question arose of how this vast amount of human cultural diversity could be compatible with the biblical account of Noah's descendants.

This assumption would imply that the biblical account is not chronological.

* A 1999 TV movie from the Bible Collection that follows the biblical account very closely, Esther, starred Louise Lombard in the title role and F. Murray Abraham as Mordecai.

The biblical account of Pentecost in the second chapter of the book of Acts describes the sound of a mighty rushing wind and " divided tongues like fire " coming to rest on the apostles.

The biblical account of the life of Jacob is found in the Book of Genesis, chapters 25-50.

Archaeological evidence confirms the biblical account of his reign as the most prosperous that Israel had yet known.

William Albright held a more favorable view towards the traditional views regarding Moses, and accepted the essence of the biblical story, as narrated between Exodus 1: 8 and Deuteronomy 34: 12, but recognized the impact that centuries of oral and written transmission have had on the account, causing it to acquire layers of accretions.

Gosse was also the author of Omphalos, an attempt to reconcile the geological ages presupposed by Charles Lyell with the biblical account of creation.

According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar, where they resolved to build a city with a tower " with its top in the heavens ... lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the Earth ".

He will venture as far to the east as Ceylon, become a monk, and write " Topographia Christiana " to vindicate the biblical account of the world ( see 550 ).

The site is held sacred by Christians, Jews and Muslims ; the name of the area, is el-Muhraqa, an Arabic construction meaning " place of burning ", and is a direct reference to the biblical account.

Like most of his episodes, Blind Harry's account of the battle of Stirling Bridge is highly improbable, for example his use of figures of a biblical magnitude for the size of the participating armies.

The biblical account describes Goliath as falling on his face after he is struck by a stone that sank into his forehead.

Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology, Ussher's account of historical events for which he had multiple sources other than the Bible is usually in close agreement with modern accounts – for example, he placed the death of Alexander in 323 BC and that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

Christian scholars argue that the biblical account might make sense if one recalls that Agrippa had been born and raised to revere his Jewishness.

The biblical account continues by stating that Moses was told by Hashem that the daughters should be considered their father's heirs, and that the general case holds-if there are no sons, the daughter ( or daughters ) should inherit-and if there are no children at all, the inheritance should pass to the man's brothers, and if there are no brothers it should pass to the nearest relative in his clan.

In the biblical account, Reuben is portrayed as having arrived east of the Jordan after leaving Egypt, but rather than taking land on the west of the Jordan, after conquering it under Joshua, instead took land on the east, as they owned a large number of cattle, and the territory seemed suitable for pasture.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of the house of Joseph, but the biblical account of this became lost ; Benjamin being differentiated by being that part of Ephraim which joined the Kingdom of Judah rather than that of Israel.

In the account of the deuteronomic history, Ephraim is portrayed as domineering, haughty, discontented, and jealous, but in classical rabbinical literature, the biblical founder of the tribe is described as being modest and not selfish.

Wycliffe Hall ’ s vision was to maintain the teaching of biblical and evangelical theology at Oxford.

Belshazzar's Feast ( Rembrandt ) | Belshazzar's Feast depicts a The writing on the wall | vision described in the biblical Book of Daniel.

For filmmakers to do justice to the biblical accounts of the passion, they must complement their artistic vision with sound scholarship, which includes knowledge of how the passion accounts have been used historically to disparage and attack Jews and Judaism.

His vision for the mission goes beyond preaching the gospel alone, but also to enhance and improve the system by incorporating different eco-social aspects with a large range of activities that will gear the mission towards a new biblical and social approach.

In his church history, written shortly after the battle, when Eusebius didn't yet have any contact with Constantine, he doesn't mention any dream or vision, but compares the defeat of Maxentius ( drowned in the Tiber ) to that of the biblical pharaoh and credits Constantine's victory to divine protection.

The locus classicus for these practices is the biblical accounts of the Chariot vision of Ezekiel and the Temple vision of Isaiah ( Chap.

The emblem may also be based on the vision of the biblical prophet Zechariah, chapter 4, where he describes seeing a menorah flanked by two olive trees, one on each side.

Launched by Joel Belz in 1986 as a replacement for The Presbyterian Journal, an at-that-time 44-year-old publication that had been founded specifically " to challenge the assumptions and activities of the liberals and to return the Presbyterian denomination to its biblical moorings ," WORLD was intended to serve " an educational rather than an ecclesiastical task -- a vision focused on the importance of a biblical worldview for all of life.

LifeWay employees are committed to the company's vision: " As God works through us ... we will help people and churches know Jesus Christ and seek His Kingdom by providing biblical solutions that spiritually transform people and cultures.

Only his mother, a woman with biblical faith and deep religious convictions, as well as a powerful belief in her son, supported his vision and allowed him to use her furniture as collateral for a $ 500 loan.

In the Testament of Levi, Kohath's birth, occurring when Levi was 35 years old, is accompanied by a vision of Kohath being on high in the midst of all the congregation ; in the vision, Kohath's name is described as meaning beginning of majesty and instruction, and is portrayed as a prophecy of him being raised above his siblings, but according to biblical scholars, the meaning of Kohath's name is fairly unknown, although it may be related to an Aramaic word meaning obey.

Those who differed with the conservatives held to a vision for progressive thought among evangelicals on theological, biblical and ethical issues.

Despite the biblical prohibition on sexual relations between half-brothers and sisters, () Amnon had an overwhelming desire for her.

Some biblical scholars believe Jonah's prayer () to be a later addition to the story ( see source criticism for more information on how such conclusions are drawn ).

Halakha () ( Sephardic Hebrew pronunciation ) ( ha-la-chAH )— also transliterated Halocho ( Ashkenazic Hebrew pronunciation ) ( ha-LUH-chuh ), or Halacha — is the collective body of religious laws for Jews, including biblical law ( the 613 mitzvot ) and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions.

() The biblical reference to the period of rivalry with Tibni is from the 27th year of Asa () to the 31st year.

Others, noting the lack of any explicit evidence of exclusion of paedobaptism, believe that they did, understanding biblical references to individuals " and household " being baptized (,, ) as well as " the promise to you and your children " () as including small children and infants.

The passage () in which Samuel is described as having exercised the functions of a ( biblical ) judge, during an annual circuit from Ramah to Bethel to Gilgal ( the Gilgal between Ebal and Gerizim ) to Mizpah and back to Ramah, is thought by textual scholars to be a redaction aimed at harmonizing the two portrayals of Samuel.

Zorah () or Tzorah, perhaps " place of wasps ," was a biblical town in the low country of Judah.

Terah or Térach () is a biblical figure in the book of Genesis, son of Nahor, son of Serug and father of the Patriarch Abraham, all descendants of Shem's son Arpachshad.

Onan () is a minor biblical person in the Book of Genesis, who was the second son of Judah.

The Plagues of Egypt (), also called the Ten Plagues () or the Biblical Plagues, were ten calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, Israel's God, Yahweh, inflicted upon Egypt to persuade Pharaoh to release the ill-treated Israelites from slavery.

Hazor () is the name of several places in the biblical and modern Israel:

Gezer () was a Canaanite city-state and biblical town in ancient Israel.

According to the description in Exodus, this breastplate was attached to the ephod, by gold chains / cords tied to the gold rings on the ephod's shoulder straps, and by blue ribbon tied to the gold rings at the lower parts of the ephod () the biblical description states that the breastplate was also to be made from the same material as the Ephod-embroidered linen-and was to be a square, a cubit in width, two layers thick, and with four rows of three engraved gems each embedded upon it, each jewel being framed in gold.

According to the Torah, Gershon () was the eldest of the sons of Levi, and the patriarchal founder of the Gershonites, one of the four main divisions among the Levites in biblical times.

Joseph Ḳimḥi ( 1105 – 1170 ), () was a medieval Jewish rabbi and biblical commentator.