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Ask a QuestionWitness, a word not found in the original Hebrew, nor in the LXX. and Vulgate, but added by the translators in the Authorized Version, also in the Revised Version, of
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The great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, "the fast" (
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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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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 (
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...
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....
(B.C. 975-B.C. 722). Soon after the death of Solomon, Ahijah's prophecy (
Water which the suspected wife was required to drink, so that the result might prove her guilt or innocence (
Lying on the northern side of the city, between the ridges of Gilboa and Moreh, an offshoot of Esdraelon, running east to the Jordan (
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
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...
A place near Pirathon (q.v.), in the tribe of Ephraim (
The range of hills which rises abruptly in the wilderness of et-Tih ("the wandering"), mentioned
Special services were appointed for the commencement of a month (
So called from the olive trees with which its sides are clothed, is a mountain ridge on the east of Jerusalem (
The place where Gideon slew Oreb after the defeat of the Midianites (
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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At the Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards (
One of the cities of Judah (
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...
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 (
Valley of the broad plains, "which is the salt sea" (
Sent or sending. Here a notable miracle was wrought by our Lord in giving sight to the blind (
Lying between Elim and sinai (