Interactive 3D Silver Coin • Exodus 30:13 & Matthew 17:24–27
High-purity silver half-shekel (didrachm) used for the annual Sanctuary tax prescribed in Exodus 30:13–15 for every adult Israelite and referenced in Matthew 17:24–27 when Jesus and Peter paid the two-person Temple tax at Capernaum .
house, family, dynasty, temple
House, household, royal dynasty (House of David), and temple (Beit YHWH, House of the LORD).
Derivation: From בָּנָה (H1129) to build.
a house, dwelling, at home
Primary meaning: a house, dwelling, at home, the household. Strong's: properly, residence (abstractly), but usually (concretely) an abode (literally or figuratively); by implication, a family (especially domestics). Lexical nuances: a house , dwelling : Mt 2:11 7:24-27 , Mk 1:29 , al.; ἐν οἰκίᾳ (= cl. κατ ̓ οἰκίαν ), at home , Lk 8:27 ; εἰς οἰ. , II Jo 10 ; οἰ , c. gen. pers., usually has the art. ( Mt 8:14 , al., but cf. οἶκος and v. Bl., § 46, 9); ἡ οἰ. τ. πατρός μου , Jo 14:2 . Metaph., of the body as the dwelling of the soul: II Co 5:1 ; of property (as בַּיִת , Ge 45:18 , LXX, τ. ὑπάρχοντα ; III Ki 13:8 , LXX, οἶκος )...
Derivation: from G3624 (οἶκος);
Interactive 3D Priestly Blessing Amulet • Numbers 6:24–26
Tiny rolled silver amulet excavated by Gabriel Barkay in 1979 in a late First Temple burial cave overlooking the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem . Etched in Paleo-Hebrew script, it preserves the oldest known surviving text from the Hebrew Bible: the Aaronic Priestly Blessing of Numbers 6:24–26 .
From Cyrus to Titus: Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodian Monumentality, and the Roman Matrix
Comprehensive historical and archaeological consensus on the political, religious, and social landscape between the return from Babylonian Exile under Cyrus (538 BC) and the Roman destruction of the Second Temple (70 AD).
Interactive 3D Architectural Model • Luke 2, John 2 & Acts 3
Reconstruction of the expanded Second Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem during the life and ministry of Jesus and the early Church—featuring the towering white-stone and gold Sanctuary facade, the Court of the Women, Court of the Gentiles, Solomon's Portico , the Royal Stoa, and the Antonia Fortress.
Interactive 3D Judean Coin • Mark 12:41–44 & Luke 21:1–4
Small bronze Hasmonean prutah/lepton minted in Jerusalem under King Alexander Jannaeus that remained the smallest denomination bronze coin in daily circulation during the first century AD—universalized in the Gospels as the 'widow's mite' cast into the Temple treasury ( Mark 12:42 ; Luke 21:2 ).
Nehemiah 10
Connected via Silver Half-Shekel (Temple Tax Coin) 72%
Chapter
Nehemiah • Chapter 10 (39 verses)
Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah , the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, Seraiah , Azariah , Jeremiah , Pashur, Amariah , Malchijah , Mentions: Seraiah , Azariah (or Uzziah), Amariah , Malchijah , Obadiah , Jeshua , Rehob 3 , Elam , Anathoth .
Exodus 30
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Chapter
Exodus • Chapter 30 (38 verses)
And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it. A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same. And thou shalt ... Mentions: Aaron , Moses , Jacob/Israel .
Matthew 17
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Chapter
Matthew • Chapter 17 (27 verses)
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James , and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , James ( Jacob ), Moses , Simon , Galilee , Capernaum .
Biblical Metaphors, Nicene Attributes, and the Reformation Notae Ecclesiae
The Church is divinely instituted by Christ ( Matt 16:18 ) and revealed as the Spirit-baptized Body of Christ , Bride of Christ, and spiritual Temple ( 1 Cor 12 , Eph 2 , 1 Pet 2 ). The institutional marks (Notae Ecclesiae) and polity forms (episcopal, presbyterian, congregational) represent long-standing scholarly debate.
prayer, intercession, supplication
Prayer, liturgical supplication, intercessory appeal; core genre of Psalms ('A prayer of Moses', Psalm 90:1; Solomon's Temple prayer).
Derivation: From פָּלַל (H6419) to pray, arbitrate.
Exodus
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Old Testament
Old Testament • 40 Chapters
Exodus (Old Testament, 40 chapters). Key figures: Jacob/Israel , Reuben , Simeon , Levi , Judah , Issachar . Key places: Egypt , Dan , Pithom , Rameses , Midian , Horeb . Opens with: "Now these are the names of the children of Israel , which came into Egypt ; every man and his household came with Jacob...."
Nehemiah
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Old Testament
Old Testament • 13 Chapters
Nehemiah (Old Testament, 13 chapters). Key figures: Judah , Jacob/Israel , Moses , Asaph , Berechiah , Zadok . Key places: Jerusalem , Jericho , Gibeon , Mizpah 3 , Zanoah 1 , Keilah . Opens with: "The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,..."
Matthew
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New Testament
New Testament • 28 Chapters
Matthew (New Testament, 28 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , David , Abram/Abraham , Isaac , Jacob/Israel , Judah . Key places: Aram , Rahab , Babylon , Bethlehem 1 , Jerusalem , Egypt . Opens with: "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David , the son of Abraham ...."
glory, weight, honor, majesty
Weight, substance, honor, splendor, glory; specifically the radiant manifesting presence of God (the Shekinah glory) appearing in the cloud and fire, filling the Tabernacle and Temple.
Derivation: From כָּבַד (H3513) to be heavy, weighty.
