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The Molten Sea or Brazen Sea (ים מוצק yām mūṣāq " cast metal sea ") was a large basin in the Temple in Jerusalem made by Solomon for ablution of the priests. It is described in 1 Kings 7:23–26 and 2 Chronicles 4:2–5. It stood in the south-eastern corner of the inner court.
Recreation of the bronze laver at Brigham Young University. The instructions given to Moses in the Book of Exodus included the creation of a bronze laver (Hebrew: כיור נחשת kîyōr nəḥōšeṯ), to be sited outside the Tabernacle of Meeting, between the Tabernacle door and the Altar of Burnt Offering, for Aaron, his sons and their successors as priests to wash their hands and their ...
Much greater detail is elaborated for the description of the supporting bases (Hebrew: Mekonoth) for the lavers.In the masoretic text, these are claimed to be four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high, [4] but the older Septuagint, and Josephus, both claim instead give the size as five cubits long, five cubits wide, and six cubits high.
Molten Sea, illustration in the Holman Bible, 1890. According to the Hebrew Bible, the "Molten or Brazen Sea" (ים מוצק "cast metal sea") was a large basin in the Temple for ablution of the priests. It is described in 1 Kings 7:23–26 and 2 Chronicles 4:2–5. According to the Bible, it stood in the south-eastern corner of the inner court.
t. e. The historicity of the Bible is the question of the Bible 's relationship to history —covering not just the Bible's acceptability as history but also the ability to understand the literary forms of biblical narrative. [1] Questions on biblical historicity are typically separated into evaluations of whether the Old Testament and Hebrew ...
The Temple of Eshmun (Arabic: معبد أشمون) is an ancient place of worship dedicated to Eshmun, the Phoenician god of healing. It is located near the Awali river, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northeast of Sidon in southwestern Lebanon.
t. e. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse[1] are figures in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Bible, a piece of apocalypse literature attributed to John of Patmos, and generally regarded as dating to about AD 95. Similar allusions are contained in the Old Testament books of Ezekiel and Zechariah, written about six centuries prior.
Genesis flood narrative. The Flood of Noah and Companions (c. 1911) by Léon Comerre. Musée d'Arts de Nantes. The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. [1] It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre- creation state of watery chaos and remake it through the microcosm of Noah's ark.