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(Deut 10:6). The same as Bene-jaakan (Num 33:31).
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Is referred to in Josh 3:16. It stood "beside Zarethan," on the west bank of Jordan (1 Kings 4:12). At this city the flow of the water was arrested and rose up "upon an heap" at the time of the...
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The great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, "the fast" (Acts 27:9), and the only one commanded in the law of Moses. The mode of its observance is described in Lev...
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(Ps 68:15), probably another name for Hermon, which lies to the north of Bashan.
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The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., "Acts of the Days." This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version "Chronicon," and...
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(1 Chr 27:24) were statistical state records; one of the public sources from which the compiler of the Books of Chronicles derived information on various public matters.
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A name given to the valley of Jehoshaphat (q.v.) as the vale of the sentence. The scene of Jehovah's signal inflictions on Zion's enemies (Joel 3:14; marg., "valley of concision or threshing").
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This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in...
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Acts 2:23; Rom 8:29; 11:2; 1 Pet 1:2), one of those high attributes essentially appertaining to him the full import of which we cannot comprehend. In the most absolute sense his knowledge is...
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The perennial source from which the Pool of Siloam (q.v.) is supplied, the waters flowing in a copious stream to it through a tunnel cut through the rock, the actual length of which is 1,750 feet....
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(B.C. 975-B.C. 722). Soon after the death of Solomon, Ahijah's prophecy (1 Kings 11:31-35) was fulfilled, and the kingdom was rent in twain. Rehoboam, the son and successor of Solomon, was scarcely...
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Water which the suspected wife was required to drink, so that the result might prove her guilt or innocence (Num 5:12-17, 27). We have no record of this form of trial having been actually resorted...
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Lying on the northern side of the city, between the ridges of Gilboa and Moreh, an offshoot of Esdraelon, running east to the Jordan (Josh 17:16; Judg 6:33; Hos 1:5). It was the scene of the signal...
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A great diversity of opinion exists as to the authorship of this book. From internal evidence, such as the similarity of sentiment and language to those in the Psalms and Proverbs (see Ps 88 and...
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The genuineness of this Gospel, i.e., the fact that the apostle John was its author, is beyond all reasonable doubt. In recent times, from about 1820, many attempts have been made to impugn its...
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A place near Pirathon (q.v.), in the tribe of Ephraim (Judg 12:15).
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The range of hills which rises abruptly in the wilderness of et-Tih ("the wandering"), mentioned Deut 1:19, 20 "that great and terrible wilderness."
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Special services were appointed for the commencement of a month (Num 28:11-15; 10:10). (See [437]FESTIVALS.)
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So called from the olive trees with which its sides are clothed, is a mountain ridge on the east of Jerusalem (1 Kings 11:7; Ezek 11:23; Zech 14:4), from which it is separated by the valley of...
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The place where Gideon slew Oreb after the defeat of the Midianites (Judg 7:25; Isa 10:26). It was probably the place now called Orbo, on the east of Jordan, near Bethshean.
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The name given to three large open cisterns at Etam, at the head of the Wady Urtas, having an average length of 400 feet by 220 in breadth, and 20 to 30 in depth. These pools derive their chief...
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(Rom 12:6). Paul says here that each one was to exercise his gift of prophecy, i.e., of teaching, "according to the proportion of faith." The meaning is, that the utterances of the "prophet" were...
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At the Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards (Num 1:20, 21), and at the close of the wilderness wanderings they numbered only 43,730 (26:7). This tribe united with...
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One of the cities of Judah (Josh 15:62), probably in the Valley of Salt, at the southern end of the Dead Sea.
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I.e., "the gate of casting out," hence supposed to be the refuse gate; one of the gates of the house of the Lord, "by the causeway of the going up" i.e., the causeway rising up from the Tyropoeon...
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LXX. and Vulgate "Senaar;" in the inscriptions, "Shumir;" probably identical with Babylonia or Southern Mesopotamia, extending almost to the Persian Gulf. Here the tower of Babel was built (Gen...
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Valley of the broad plains, "which is the salt sea" (Gen 14:3, 8, 10), between Engedi and the cities of the plain, at the south end of the Dead Sea. It was "full of slime-pits" (R.V., "bitumen...
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Sent or sending. Here a notable miracle was wrought by our Lord in giving sight to the blind (John 9:7-11). It has been identified with the Birket Silwan in the lower Tyropoeon valley, to the...
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Lying between Elim and sinai (Ex 16:1; comp. Num 33:11, 12). This was probably the narrow plain of el-Markha, which stretches along the eastern shore of the Red Sea for several miles toward the...
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(Isa 27:12), the Wady el-Arish, called also "the river of Egypt," R.V., "brook of Egypt" (Num 34:5; Josh 15:4; 2 Kings 24:7). It is the natural boundary of Egypt. Occasionally in winter, when heavy...