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• Jehoiakim
  ...e previous twenty-three years. After his secretary Baruch read them in the temple, the city leaders became so disturbed that they read them to Jehoiakim. The ...s, Jeremiah caused his prophecies to be read by Baruch in the court of the temple. Jehoiakim, hearing of this, had them also read in the royal palace before
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• City
  ...ed the very conception of [[Judaism]] as a national religion, for in the [[Temple]] of Jerusalem alone could God be worshipped with the rites He had Himself ...uke 2:4 ). </p> <p> Jerusalem is called the Holy City, the holiness of the temple being regarded as extending in some measure over the whole city (&nbsp;Nehe
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• Eclipse
  ...hias and his accomplices. This is of great importance in the chronology of Herod's reign, as it immediately preceded his own death. It has been calculated as
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• Nebuchadnezzar
  ...cubits (50 ft.). Herodotus, i. 183, similarly mentions Belus' image in the temple at Babylon as 40 ft. high. Oppert found in the [[Dura]] (Dowair) plain the ...actually on the site of the tower of Babel mentioned in the Bible, and the temple of Belus described by Herodotus, this building would seem to have been erec
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• Medicine
  ...hild was boy or girl, during which period she was not allowed to enter the Temple. The reason for the different lengths of the two periods was that the <em> ...s resources by its records-or relics; but there is some doubt whether this temple was of such high antiquity. Solomon, however, we cannot doubt, would have t
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• Commerce
  ...eft their money with them. A portion of the vast sums that came into the [[Temple]] treasury in Jerusalem as taxes each year (&nbsp;Matthew 17:24 ) were prob ...the principal city. Tyre was built two hundred and forty years before the temple of Solomon, or twelve hundred and fifty-one before Christ. The Phenicians h
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• Government
  ...rwin-White, <i> Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament </i> ; W. Temple, <i> [[Citizen]] and Churchman </i> . </p> ...cation (&nbsp; 1 Kings 21:1-29 ), and. in an emergency, of stripping the [[Temple]] (&nbsp; 2 Kings 18:15 ). In time of peace the main function of the king i
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• Guard
  ...V, "... a watch," "(setting a) watch," and "... the watch." This was the [[Temple]] guard, stationed under a Roman officer in the tower of Antonia, and havin ...the "lodges" or "little chambers" were rooms for the accommodation of the temple guard (&nbsp;Ezekiel 40:7 , &nbsp;Ezekiel 40:10 , &nbsp;Ezekiel 40:21 , &nb
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• Porch
  ...ther "porches" existent in the time of Christ were almost certainly due to Herod's restoration. Cp. [[Stoics]] (&nbsp; Acts 17:18 ), "philosophers of the porc ...trong> 1 </strong> ( <em> a </em> ), where the triple colonnade of Herod’s temple the ‘Royal Porch’ of [[Josephus]] is also discussed. For details see <e
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• Sacerdotal Order
  ...sive priesthood, as a distinct caste, was confirmed by the building of the Temple, and their influence may have been increased by being concentrated within t
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• Cyrus
  ...ho announces the restoration of Israel, and the rebuilding of the city and temple of Jerusalem, through Cyrus his "shepherd" and his "anointed" messenger. Ch ...of the treasury (&nbsp;Ezra 1:7-11; &nbsp;Ezra 6:5), the allowance of the temple rebuilding expenses out of the royal revenue (&nbsp;Ezra 6:4), and the char
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• Philistines
  ...(cf. Barton, <em> Semit. Or </em> . 229 ff.). There was also at Ashkelon a temple of Ashtart (Herod. l. 105). If their religion was Semitic, so also were pro ...'''' </i> ) means "a swift one" or "pursuer." In the time of [[Joash]] the temple-guards are called <i> ''''' kārı̄ ''''' </i> (&nbsp; 2 Kings 11:4 , &nbs
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• Tombs
  ...erns (Josephus B. J. 5:22; 5:4, section 2). </p> <p> This tomb was N.W. of Herod's, which was on the N. of the city. Tombs used to be whitewashed yearly on th
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• Babylonia
  ...ssels. The spirit manifested in the proclamation for the rebuilding of the temple (&nbsp;Ezra 1:1 , &nbsp;Ezra 1:4 ) seems also to have been in accordance wi ...t was encumbered (Strabo, 16:1, 5). His designs for the restoration of the temple and the general embellishment of the city were frustrated by his untimely d
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• Isaiah
  ...eunuchs (&nbsp;Isaiah 56:3-7 ), they would no longer be excluded from the Temple worship. This injected grace and hope into the law of &nbsp;Deuteronomy 23: ...which assign him the kingdoms from Jehovah and the duty of rebuilding His temple. Probably he adopted from them his historical name Cyrus ( '''''Κoresh''''
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• Asmoneans
  ...forever estranging the Pharisaic party from Rome. But he did not spoil the temple, and appointed Hyrcanus high priest. This event marks the collapse of the M
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...idents of the ‘Common Council’ of the province in cities where there was a temple of Rome and the Emperor; they superintended the worship of the Emperor. The ...on of persecution, owing to Caligula's attempt to set up his statue in the temple. Next he was brought to Tarsus, to escape from Grecian conspirators in Jeru
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• Hair
  ...;Psalm 133:2 ). Such distinction we find also in Egypt, where the walls of temple laboratories were inscribed with extensive recipes of such holy oils, while ...eir inauguration shaved off all their hair, and when on actual duty at the temple, were in the habit, it is said, of cutting it every fortnight. The only exc
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• Court Of The Sanctuary; Tabernacle; Temple
  ...round the whole "court of the priests," inclusive of altar and temple (see Temple; and compare G. A. Smith, <i> Jerusalem </i> , II, 506-9, with the reconstr ...t+of+the+sanctuary;+tabernacle;+temple Court Of The Sanctuary; Tabernacle; Temple from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
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• Games
  ...were held in honour of Olympian [[Zeus]] in connexion with the magnificent temple in [[Olympia]] in Elis; the Isthmian games on the Isthmus of [[Corinth]] in
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