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• Necho
  ...h chains, and sent him into Egypt. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 36:4; Then coming to Jerusalem, he set up Eliakim, or Jehoiakim, Josiah's first-born, in his place. [[Carc <p> We read of [[Pharaoh]] Neeho, king of Egypt, &nbsp;2 Kings 23:29. Probably the name of Necho was added to that of Phara
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• Canaan
  ...o enjoy after the pilgrimage of life; its holy city was the figure of the "Jerusalem above;" and Zion, with its solemn and joyful services, represented that "hi ...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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• Sabbath
  ...us 20:8-11 , and also to commemorate their deliverance from the bondage of Egypt, &nbsp;Deuteronomy 5:15 . </p> <p> "A Sabbath day's journey" was reckoned t ...ved (ii. 59, vii. 23, viii. 33). A stray papyrus-leaf discovered in middle Egypt in 1911, which appears to be a portion of a prayer-book that must have been
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• Zerah
  ...nbsp;2 Chronicles 12:3) as those of the preceding invader Shishak, through Egypt, into Judah. </p> ...n by Jehovah, and Asa took much spoil. &nbsp; 2 Chronicles 14:9-15 . See [[Egypt]] </p>
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• Gibeon
  ...rnacle" to Jerusalem, where they remained till they were carried away by [[Nebuchadnezzar]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 24:13 ). </p> ...e city's role in post-exilic Israel. The Gibeonites assisted in rebuilding Jerusalem's walls (&nbsp;Nehemiah 3:7 ). Nehemiah's list of the returning exiles also
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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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• Magic
  ...ve results were produced by magical rites. </p> <p> (Even the magicians of Egypt could imitate the plagues sent through Moses only so long as they had previ ...e believed Balaam's powers to be: "Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
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• Number
  ...p;Galatians 3:17). God will bring them back to a bondage as bad as that in Egypt, but shortened by the ''40'' years' sojourn in the desert for discipline. A ...is period is explained as made up of 7 1 / 2 years at [[Hebron]] and 33 at Jerusalem an explanation which implies that, apart from some odd months, the 40 years
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• Moab
  ...e raids helped to weaken Judah in the days of Babylon’s final assault on [[Jerusalem]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 24:1-2), and so made its own destruction inevitable (&nbsp ...y [[Alexander]] the Great, and were in obedience to the kings of Syria and Egypt successively, and finally to the Romans. There is a probability, also that
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• Army
  ...ws, in violation of God's prohibition (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 17:16), looked to Egypt for horses and chariots (&nbsp;Isaiah 31:1; &nbsp;Isaiah 36:9; &nbsp;Psalms ...an]] sects in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. St. Paul was escorted from Jerusalem to [[Antipatris]] by 200 foot-soldiers, 70 horsemen (ἱππεῖς), and 2
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• Music
  ...ction of the temple, and was transmitted till the time of the overthrow of Jerusalem. It was indeed sometimes interrupted, during the reign of the idolatrous ki ...came upon Elisha" (&nbsp;2 Kings 3:15); [[Gilgal]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 4:38); [[Jerusalem]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 22:14). "Singing men and women" were at David's court (&nb
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• Dragon
  ...f Egypt and its king on coins of [[Augustus]] struck after the conquest of Egypt. "A habitation of dragons" expresses utter desolation, as venomous snakes a ...s of foreign countries who have been taking their places in the palaces of Jerusalem, but now are cast out, and the blessing of GOD has taken their place. </p>
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• Alliance
  ...is to stave off the danger from the east by alliance with [[Damascus]] or Egypt. [[Sennacherib]] assumes that this will be the policy of [[Hezekiah]] (&nbs ...n to procure for them consideration from the rulers of Western Asia and of Egypt. </p>
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• Worship
  ...and Gentile (&nbsp;Acts 15:1-35 ). The compromise solution achieved at the Jerusalem [[Council]] later proved ineffective, and to this day the church continues ...law of the letter from Mount Sinai—the law of the spirit from the heavenly Jerusalem. This festival originally embraced the whole season of fifty days from East
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• Jeremiah
  ...ophet. Beginning with Jer 37, the story of the prophet during the siege of Jerusalem and after the destruction of the city is reported, and in connection with t
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• Book Of Jeremiah
  ...e, and cruelty had afterwards to be punished. Judgements were to fall upon Egypt, the Philistines, Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Elam, and Bab <li> ch. 45. <p> In Egypt, after an interval, Jeremiah is supposed to have added three sections, viz.
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• Lachish
  ...olumns and fragments; in the middle of the plain, on Sennacherib's road to Egypt, where he was marching, according to Robinson. Rather it answers to the gre ...yer as late as 1150 B.C. on the basis of a cartouche of [[Rameses]] III of Egypt. </p> <p> The biblical account of Sennacherib's conquest of Lachish in 701
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• Jewish. Calendar
  ...in Lower Egypt (Korte, p. 189; Shaw, p. 123). Dates are still gathered in Egypt in the middle of this month (Thomson, 2:176). The trees till this period re
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• Johanan
  ...or it. All they gained by forcing Jeremiah and Baruch to accompany them to Egypt was that Jeremiah there under the Spirit foretold their doom and that of [[ ...nan at their head, notwithstanding, the warnings of Jeremiah, retired into Egypt. </p> <p> 4. The first-born son of Josiah, king of Judah. &nbsp;1 Chronicle
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• Genealogy
  ...al between Ezra himself and Seraiah, put to death 150 years before Ezra by Nebuchadnezzar. In Exodus 6 the sons of three of Kohath's sons are given, but not of [[Heb ...genealogy in their several families, the originals of which were lodged at Jerusalem, to be occasionally consulted. These authentic monuments, during all their
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