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• Aristobulus
  ...aligula]] sent [[Petronius]] to [[Jerusalem]] to set up the statues in the Temple, Aristobulus joined in the remonstrance against the procedure (Josephus, ''
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• Claudius
  ...banon. He appointed Herod's brother to Chalcis and the presidency over the temple at Jerusalem. </p> <p> In Claudius' reign occurred the famine in Palestine ...to this latter also, after his brother's death, the presidency over the [[Temple]] at [[Jerusalem]] (Josephus, Ant. 20, 1, 3). Indeed, the Jews were general
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• Babel
  ...town. The structure may have been a fortress, though more likely it was a temple built on a series of stepped platforms, similar to the Sumerian ziggurats. ...e Chaldaean builder to whom belongs the credit of designing the Babylonian temple, with its rectangular base facing the four cardinal points, its receding st
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• Libraries
  ...aught in the Treasury, which in Herod's [[Temple]] was in the court of the temple proper - probably the porticos under the women's gallery, some of the adjoi
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• Jesus Christ (Part 2 Of 2)
  ...regard certain [[Galileans]] whom [[Pilate]] had slain in a tumult at the temple, and eighteen on whom the tower of [[Siloam]] had fallen, as sinners above
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• Caesarea Philippi
  ...us <i> Ant </i> . xv. x. 3). On the hill above, Herod built a white marble temple in honour of [[Augustus]] (Josephus <i> Ant </i> . xv. x. 3, <i> BJ </i> i. ...who then controlled the area, gave the territory to Herod the Great. After Herod's death, it passed to his son Philip who ruled there from 4 B.C. until his de
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• Peter
  ...sp;Acts 2:14 ff.), the immediate agent in healing the lame beggar at the [[Temple]] gate (&nbsp;Acts 3:1-10), and the principal defender of the new faith dur ...er not to "offend." i.e. give a handle of reproach, as if lie despised the temple and law, caused Peter the fisherman again to resume his occupation and brou
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• Architecture In The Biblical Period
  ...ove the ground and faced the harbor. [[A]] large court was in front of the temple at Samaria, and a broad staircase gave access to it. </p> <p> 2. Private St
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• Darius
  ...e ascended the throne. His curse (&nbsp;Ezra 6:12) on those who injure the temple answers to that on those who should injure the inscriptions at Behistun, an ...l inscription on the rocks at Behistun. He allowed the Jews to rebuild the Temple. The prophets Haggai and Zechariah encouraged the people to go on with the
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• Pinnacle
  ...e is still, therefore, a choice of views. On the one hand, the apex of the Temple proper would undoubtedly be the loftiest point of the whole group of buildi ...terux, "a wing"); (b) "anything like a wing, a turret, battlement," of the temple in Jerusalem, &nbsp;Matthew 4:5; &nbsp;Luke 4:9 (of the hieron, "the entire
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• Chronology Of The Old Testament
  ...d by the [[Egyptian]] inscriptions. From the time of the rebuilding of the Temple under Darius we are also in uncertainty, though this period does not bulk l ...easons: ( <i> a </i> ) This is in harmony with the time-reckoning from the Temple of Solomon back to the Exodus (&nbsp;1 Kings 6:1 ), and fully satisfies the
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• Candlestick
  ...ting their beams on mount [[Olivet]] and on Jerusalem. Jesus coming to the temple at daybreak (&nbsp;John 8:1-2), as they were extinguishing the artificial l ...as afterwards carried away by Titus to Rome, where it was deposited in the Temple of Peace. When Genseric plundered Rome, he is said to have carried it to [[
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• Galilee
  ...crifices.' Josephus, indeed, does not mention any Galileans slain in the [[Temple]] by Pilate; but the character which he gives that people sufficiently corr
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• Passover
  ...house speedily, speedily even in our days, rebuild it. O God, rebuild Thy Temple speedily!’ and in the aspiration repeated more than once, but especially ...f the year; and at the same time of the day, as the daily sacrifice at the Temple, the crucifixion beginning at the hour of the morning sacrifice, and ending
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• Antonia
  ..., for it is a much disputed question upon what part of the temple area the temple was built. There is a tower, <i> now </i> called Antonia, on the N.W. angle ...tle" from which soldiers came down to rescue Paul from the [[Jews]] in the temple; and from its stairs he addressed the multitude, &nbsp;Acts 21:31-40 . </p>
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• Trachonitis
  ...r of Trachonitis are the large ruins of Musmeih, which an inscription on a temple door identifies with Phocus (Phoeno) the old capital (Burckhardt, Trav. [[S
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• Antipas
  ...in a tumult there by the priests of ''A'' Esculapius, who had a celebrated temple in that city (Eusebius, ''Hist.'' &nbsp;Ecclesiastes 4:1-16; &nbsp;Ecclesia
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• Dates
  ...itation may be further justified by the fact that the destruction of the [[Temple]] established a new order of things not simply with reference to Judaism, b
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• Books Of Chronicles
  ...cles 18:1-21:17 ) </p> <p> E. God's revelation in mercy of the site of the Temple and the place of the altar of sacrifice (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 21:18-22:1 ) </ ...cler, however, his chief importance had to do with his construction of the temple in Jerusalem (2:1-7:22). Building programs and clever trading activities co
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• Sadducees
  ...p it, and anything that threatened to be a danger to their power or to the Temple cultus with which their power was bound up they strove to destroy. That any ...ered institutions of Judaism. With the destruction of the Jewish state and temple in a.d. 70, they passed into the pages of history. </p> <p> J. [[Julius]] S
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