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• Arabia
  ...studious, or the pride of the wealthy. The rage for literature extended to Egypt and to Spain. In the former country, the Fatimites collected a library of a ...Hadjar, i.e. rock. Between the gulfs of [[Suez]] and Akabah; Palestine and Egypt are its northern boundary. The desert of mount [[Sinai]] (Burr et tur Sinai
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• Shishak
  ...year. He appears in the temple at Thebes as "lord of both Upper and Lower Egypt." The lotus and the papyrus are both upon the shields carried before him; t ...s 3:1 , and made many foreign conquests. In the palace-temple of Karnak in Egypt, the walls of which are yet standing, Sesonchis is represented in a large b
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• Syria
  ...a distance of nearly 100 miles. Anti-Libanus, as the name implies, stands lower against Lebanon, running in the same direction, that is, nearly north and s ...frontier and sometimes battlefield between the empires of the new kingdom Egypt in the south and initially Mitanni, then the [[Hittites]] to the north. Imp
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• Mss
  ...pposed to have used the Peshiá¹­ta), the papyrus and vellum fragments from Egypt and Sinai, the examination of more of the minuscule [[Mss,]] all these have
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• Genesis
  ...ghest political authority of the world. Finally, the family is reunited in Egypt and look forward to God's deliverance so they can return to the land of pro ...homeland would also be fulfilled. The Israelites’ increasing prosperity in Egypt was rapidly preparing them for the day when they would be strong enough to
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• Africa
  ...e most frequent mention of Africa in the Bible has to do with Egypt (see [[Egypt]] ; [[Goshen]] ; [[Nile]] ). The land of Ethiopia is also mentioned frequen ...on in 1859, they counted over 300,000 souls. [[Mohammedanism]] prevails in Egypt, Tunis, Tripoli, Algeria, Morocco, Fez, and also throughout Soudan. Dieteri
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• Ezekiel
  ...t threat to Israel's welfare (&nbsp;Ezekiel 28:20-26 ) </p> <p> G. Against Egypt because of her pride and deceit (&nbsp;Ezekiel 29:1-32:32 ) </p> <p> IV. Th ...t. </p> <p> Previously, he calls to repentance, and rebukes blind trust in Egypt or in man (&nbsp;Ezekiel 17:15-17; compare &nbsp;Jeremiah 37:7). [[Afterwar
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• Papyrus
  ...rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and ...nt </i> , Oxford, 1911). </p> <p> Arabic papyri first began to appear from Egypt in 1825, when three Arabic pieces were brought to Paris and published by Si
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• Founder Of A Gnostic Sect Valentinus
  ...the Redeemer, and participation in His Redemption: all, even those of the lower grades of the spirit-world, participate at least ἐκ μέρους in the
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• Canaan
  ...shon, the Kedron, the Besor, the Sorek, and the stream called the river of Egypt. These, also, will be found described under their respective heads. This co ...e Benefactor. It lay midway between the oldest world kingdoms, on one side Egypt and Ethiopia, on the other Babylon, Assyria, and India; then it had close b
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• Jeroboam
  ...irst high priest: "Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of Egypt" (&nbsp;Exodus 32:4; &nbsp;Exodus 32:8). The places were hallowed by ancien ...ed, he cried out, "Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of Egypt!" He also caused idolatrous temples to be built, and priests to be ordained
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• Serpent
  ...se of by way of ornament to the statues of their gods. Thee chief deity of Egypt is said to have been Vulcan, who was styled Opas; he was the same as Osiris ...serpent as a symbol of life and health, as it having been so worshipped in Egypt. The two views have a point of contact, for the serpent is wisdom. </p> <p>
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• Sennacherib
  ...himself "the subduer of kings from the upper sea of the setting sun to the lower sea of the rising sun," that is, from the [[Mediterranean]] to the [[Persia ...Sennacherib reseated Padi on his throne. Sennacherib defeated the kings of Egypt and [[Ethiopia]] at Eltekeh. Sennacherib took 46 of Judah's fenced cities i
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• Music
  ...as by a neck and finger board." From the long residence of the Hebrews in Egypt, it is no improbable conjecture that their music was derived from that sour ...n of [[Israel]] sang their triumphal song of deliverance from the hosts of Egypt; and Miriam, in celebration of the same event, exercised one of her functio
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• Pithom
  ...ished to lesson Israel by cruelty: Israel thrived and multiplied the more. Egypt intended to make their lives bitter to them; whereas the bitterness recoile ...occupied down to very late times. It was capital of the 8th nome of Lower Egypt, and in it was worshipped a form of the sun-god under the name of Etôm.
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• Year
  ...meval week of creation, revived among the Jews, after their departure from Egypt, their principal festivals, the passover, pentecost, and tabernacles, laste ...the 400 "years" mark not merely the time that [[Israel]] was in bondage in Egypt, but the time that they sojourned or were strangers there (the RV puts a co
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• Naphtuhim
  ...aph, Noph, or Memphis, and to have been the first king of that division of Egypt. He is, however, placed by Bochart in Lybia; and is conjectured to be the A ...als </em> (col. 1. 94, 99) a district <em> Nathu </em> , probably in Lower Egypt, occurs, which may be the same. An Egyptian <em> n-idhw </em> , ‘the mars
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• Fable
  ...d its object is moral instruction. As it moves on ground common to man and lower creatures, its teaching can never rise to a high spiritual level. [[Worldly ...roverbs 30:28). </p> <p> The analogies in the lower creatures are to man's lower virtues or defects, his worldly prudence, or his pride, indolence, cunning
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• Creation
  ...nd geology proves the death of whole races of animals before man. That the lower creaturely world has a connection with man in its common present subjection ...they can call their own, except their poetry. Their sages penetrated into Egypt and India, and on their return stigmatized the natives of these countries a
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• Manetho
  ...sec, 4, 16, 34, 36). </p> <p> For literature additional to the above, (See Egypt); also Fruin, ''Dissertatio'' Historica de Manethone (Leyd. 1847, 8vo); B ' ...Egyptian priest and historian, of the 3rd century B.C.; wrote a history of Egypt in Greek, derived from study of sacred monumental inscriptions, which is ex
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