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He who avenged the blood of one who had been killed. The nearest relative of the deceased became the authorized avenger of blood. (
a city of refuge in the downs on the east of the Jordan. (4:43;
[[1280]Wilderness Of The Wandering OF THE WANDERING]
Cuttings in the flesh, or the laceration of one's body for the "propitiation of their gods," (
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--We learn from Holy Scripture that it was by the agency of the Spirit of God that the prophets received the divine communication; but the means by which the divine Spirit communicated with the...
the wells of the tribe of Bene-Jaakan, which formed one of the halting-places of the Israelites in the desert. (10:6) In (
and Rabbath of the Ammonites, [See RABBATH]
[[1299]Ecclesiasticus]
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may be generally described as the "collection of books which form the original and authoritative written rule of the faith and practice of the Christian Church," i.e. the Old and New Testaments....
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a title given to fifteen Psalms, from 120 to 134 inclusive. Four of them are attributed to David, one is ascribed to the pen of Solomon, and the other ten give no indication of their author. With...
I. the kingdom.--The prophet Ahijah of Shiloh, who was commissioned in the latter days of Solomon to announce the division of the kingdom, left one tribe (Judah) to the house of David, and assigned...
of which the book or Ruth formed originally a part, contains a history from Joshua to Samson. The book may be divided into two parts:-- + Chs. 1-16. We may observe in general on this portion of the...
Three sections of this work represent three natural divisions of the prophecy--1, 2; 3-5; 6,7--each commencing with rebukes and threatening and closing with a promise. The first section opens with...
The external evidence of authenticity of this epistle is of the strongest kind and the internal is equally strong. It was addressed to the churches of Asia Minor which had for the most part been...
The rendering "pieces of gold," as in (
The title of this book in Hebrew is taken from its first word, mashal, which originally meant "a comparison." It is sometimes translated parable, sometimes proverb as here. The superscriptions...
The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill'im, "Praises;" but in the actual superscriptions of the psalms the word Tehillah is applied only to one, (
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the fifth of the six cities of Judah which lay in the "wilderness." (
[[1116]Sihor]
a tract of the wilderness which the Israelites reached after leaving the encampment by the Red Sea. (
[[1157]Wisdom, The, Of Solomon, BOOK OF]
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The unity of the human race is most clearly implied, if not positively asserted, in the Mosaic writings. Unity of language is assumed by the sacred historian apparently as a corollary of the unity...
the spot in which Manasseh king of Judah and his son Amon were buried. (
occurs only in (32:32) It is generally supposed that this passage alludes to the celebrated apples of Sodom, of which Josephus speaks, "which indeed resemble edible fruit in color, but, on being...