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• Houses
  ...at we were to witness one of the greatest calamities that have occurred in Egypt in the recollection of any one living. The Nile rose this season three feet
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• Immortality
  ...course, not confined to Palestine, but, as we know, was spread throughout Egypt, Asia Minor, and all the [[Mediterranean]] coasts by means of the synagogue ...becomes very apparent after the reign of the Greciai kings over Syria and Egypt, and their persecutions of the Jews. </p> <p> The prophets and teachers liv
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• Jephthah
  ...ng the eastern boundary by Ije [[Abarim]] (&nbsp;Numbers 21:11-13), on the upper Arnon, the boundary between Moab and the Amorites. (See IJE ABARIM.) Jephth ...erritory which the former had taken from them on their first coming out of Egypt. Jephthah replied that they had made no conquests in that quarter but from
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• Peter
  ...in this holy fellowship.’ (4) When Jesus washed the disciples’ feet in the Upper Room, it was Peter who protested (&nbsp; John 13:6-9 ). He could not bear t ...Peter 5:13. Some, however, interpret this of Some, and others of a town in Egypt called Babylon, near Old Cairo. 2 Peter was less confidently ascribed to Pe
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• Astrology
  ...st a general tradition that they were practised from the earliest times in Egypt. The system was, in those remote ages, intimately connected with Sabaism, o ...ith Joseph's divining-cup, and such cups were employed both in Babylon and Egypt, and their use was akin to the more modern crystal-gazing, the hypnotic sta
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• Hiss
  ...l them from the end of the earth." (&nbsp;Isaiah 5:26) So again the bee of Egypt, and the bee of Assyria, meaning the armies of those nations, the Lord sait ...p> HISS, n. The sound made by propelling the breath between the tongue and upper teeth the noise of a serpent, a goose, &c. </p> <p> He hiss for hiss return
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• Semites; Semitic Religion
  ...rrupted by the developed civilization which they invaded and appropriated; Egypt was only indirectly affected by Semitic life; Semitic development in Arabia
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• Nose-Jewel
  ...nt]] By Women In The East.'' Upon it are strung beads, coral or jewels. In Egypt, it is now almost confined to the lower classes. </p> ...y many of those in the .country towns and villages both of Upper and Lower Egypt. It is most commonly made of brass, is from an inch to an inch and a half i
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• Dualism
  ...13-14 ‘the dragons,’ ‘leviathan’]. This name is used as a symbolic name of Egypt (&nbsp; Psalms 87:4 , &nbsp; Isaiah 30:7 ), probably on account of its posi ...y the tendencies which it nominally rejected. [[Monasticism]] in Syria and Egypt was the direct result of the contact of degenerating Christianity with paga
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• Pottery
  ...e, and turned by hand or worked by a treadle (&nbsp;Jeremiah 18:3); on the upper he molded the clay into shape (&nbsp;Isaiah 45:9); the vessel was then smoo ...se in Palestine is not known, but it seems likely that it was adopted from Egypt. &nbsp;Isaiah 45:9; &nbsp;Jeremiah 15:3. </p> <p> The vessel was then, smoo
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• Transportation And Travel
  ...Isaiah denounced the leaders of Judah for sending camel loads of gifts to Egypt to buy their aid against [[Assyria]] (&nbsp; Isaiah 30:6 ). Because of thei
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• Ascend Come Up
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• The Great Theodosius I.
  ...<i> e.g. </i> , religious controversy burst forth with special violence in Egypt or Antioch, the bishop applied for edicts imposing perpetual silence on the
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• Antioch
  ...harried the Seleucid empire as far as Susiana and Bactria, carrying off to Egypt an immense spoil. Worsted on the field, Kallinikus devoted himself to the e ...or. </p> <p> In 1268, Antioch was taken by Bibars, or Bondocdar, sultan of Egypt. The slaughter of seventeen thousand, and the captivity of one hundred thou
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• Casluhim
  ...ers it probable that the original seat of the tribe was somewhere in Lower Egypt, and not far from the vicinity of that "Serbonian [[Bog]] betwixt Damiata a ...dividual, are supposed by Bochart and others to have carried a colony from Egypt, which settled in the district between [[Pelusium]] and Gaza, or, in other
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• Hebrews
  ...captive by the [[Assyrian]] monarchs. They are also numerous in Arabia, in Egypt, and throughout Africa. </p> <p> 2. In most parts of the world their state ...be regarded as names of persons. Some of them are names of places near the upper reaches of the [[Euphrates]] and the Tigris, and the whole genealogy may be
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• Laver
  ...pper; Heb. nihsheth), made from the metal mirrors the women brought out of Egypt (&nbsp;Exodus 38:8 ). It contained water wherewith the priests washed their ..., lions, and palm-trees or branches. The height of the convex top from the upper plane of the base was one and a half cubit, and the space between this top
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• Nahum
  ...uction of Nineveh in the time of Hezekiah, after the war of Sennacherib in Egypt mentioned by Berosus. Compare &nbsp;Isaiah 20:6 &nbsp; Nahum 3:8 . Nahum sp ...omb is a simple plaster box, covered with green cloth, and standing at the upper end of a large chamber. There are no inscriptions nor fragments of any anti
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• Eye
  ...and perfect order, watching every motion. Pococke says, that at a visit in Egypt every thing is done with the greatest decency and the most profound silence ...ur eye look with regret upon”] your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours” (Gen. 45:20). “Eyes” are used figuratively of mental and sp
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• Ass
  ...; &nbsp;Zechariah 9:9 ). Isaiah described an unusual caravan on the way to Egypt including young donkeys and camels. The older donkeys would have been the m ...nd muscular, and the gait graceful. It is spirited, and withal docile. The upper classes, judges, (as Jair's 30 sons, and Abdon's 40 sons and 30 nephews,) a
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