Numbers
8.1 Setting Up the Lamps
8.3 Spots? Directional floodlighting? I’m impressed with their lighting technology!
8.5 The Setting Apart of the Levites
8.7 Shaving the whole body must have been a dramatic thing to do – presumably intimate areas in particular.
8.11 Most of the various offerings are detailed in the early chapters of Leviticus; but for the wave offering, see Exodus 29.24 and comment.
Psalms
Psalm 44
44.9 What a change of mood! Is this another psalm from exile?
44.22 Quoted by Paul.
Song of Songs
6.6 I imagine there must have been many women whose teeth were not always twinned – some solo, with a gap opposite!
6.9 How remarkable, for women to praise a rival! Or was Solomon a little deceived?
6.13 The dance of Mahanaim is a bit obscure, but Wikipedia’s article has quite a bit about the place.
Hebrews
6.2 This is a basic syllabus for religious instruction.
6.6 This is a stern warning to backsliders, because their decision is made
6.13 The Certainty of God’s Promise
6.20 And that sets him off on another train of thought!
