evite's Usage Examples:

Similarly the story of the original selection of the Levites in the wilderness mentions an uncompromising massacre of idolaters.

There can be no reasonable doubt that the Levite here was member of a priestly tribe or order, and this view is confirmed by the discovery of what is really the same word in south Arabian inscriptions.

7) on the view that TJzza was not a Levite, hence the catastrophe.

The Septuagint translators did not read the clause which speaks of "priests and Levites," and 2 Chron.

Further, instead of holding cities and pasture-grounds, the Levites are sometimes described as scattered and divided (Gen.

15, too, brings in the Levites, but the verse breaks the connexion between 14 and 16.

When they asked for a sign from heaven, He would give them no more than the sign of Jonah, explaining that the repentant Ninevites should condemn the present generation: so, too, should the queen of Sheba; for that which they were now rejecting was more than Jonah and more than Solomon.

8), where the Levite is specially associated with another apparatus of inquiry, viz.

solemnize marriages was not assigned to the priestly family of Aaron or the Levite temple servants at all.

J 1 as well as E), makes reference to a Levite of Bethlehem-Judah, expressly stated in xvii.

Even the name Levite itself is of uncertain origin.

3 But the history of the Levites in the early post-exilic stage and onwards is a separate problem, and the work of criticism has not advanced sufficiently for a proper estimate of the various vicissitudes.

Levites, Prophet, Sac Rifice).