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Ask a QuestionThe judges were temporary and special deliverers, sent by God to deliver the Israelites from their oppressors; not supreme magistrates, succeeding to the authority of Moses and Joshua. Their power...
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...
(my father is Jehovah). + Son and successor of Rehoboam on the throne of Judah. (
The sons of Adonikam, 666 in number, were among those who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (
[[66]Adoraim]
(friend of Jehovah). + Son of Ahitub, grandson of Phinehas and great-grandson of Eli, succeeded his father as high priest in the reign of Saul. (
(gift of God), a eunuch (chamberlain, Authorized Version) in the court of Ahasuerus, one of those "who kept the door," and conspired with Teresh against the king's life. (
[[357]Chaldeans, Or Chaldees]
(God hath given). + The maternal grandfather of Jehoiachin, (
(fruitful). + Second wife of Caleb the son of Hezron, mother of Hur and grandmother of Caleb the spy, according to (
+ The inhabitants of Geshur. (3:14;
(embrace), the eighth in order of the minor prophets. Of the facts of the prophet's life we have no certain information. He probably lived about the twelfth or thirteenth year of Josiah, B.C. 630 ...
(noble). + The king of Tyre who sent workmen and materials to Jerusalem, first, (
(contender with Baal), the surname of Gideon, which he acquired in consequence of destroying the altar of Baal, when his father defended him from the vengeance of the Abiezrites. (
(turbid), The brook, a torrent or valley, not a "brook," or, as in the margin of Revised Version, "ravine;" Gr. winter torrent. It was close to Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives....
(crest of a hill), one of the cities of Judah in the low country. (
(wide), a celebrated woman of Jericho who received the spies sent by Joshua to spy out the land, hid them in her house from the pursuit of her countrymen, was saved with all her family when the...
a city of Egypt, mentioned in the time of the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel. The name is evidently Egyptian, and closely resembles that of the Egyptian queen Tahpenes. It was evidently a town of...
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daughter of Reuel or Jethro, the priest of Midian, wife of Moses and mother of his two sons Gershom and Eliezer. (
+ Son of Becher, the son of Benjamin. (
(justice of Jehovah), Ancestor of Shaphat, the overseer of David's herds that fed in the broad valleys. (
the former occurring in (
(the mysterious), an Egyptian divinity, whose name occurs in that of No-amon. (
(prince of servants), a queen of Ethiopia (Meroe), mentioned (
one of the countries whence Shalmaneser introduced colonists into Samaria. (
(languishing) a woman who dwelt in the valley Of Sorek, beloved by Samson. (
(invocation of God), father of Eliasaph, the "captain" of the tribe of Gad at the time of the numbering of the people at Sinai. (
(red). The name Edom was given to Esau, the first-born son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob, when he sold his birthright to the latter for a meal of lentil pottage. The country which the Lord...
(giant's backbone), (