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• Book Of: Judges
  ...Kommentar zum Altes Testament </i> , Tubingen, 1897; W. Nowack, "Richter," in <i> Hand-kommentar zum Altes Testament </i> , 1900. </p>
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• City Of Samaria
  ..., <i> ''''' hē ''''' </i> <i> ''''' Samáreia ''''' </i> : A town mentioned in &nbsp; 1 [[Maccabees]] 5:66 as on the route followed by [[Judas]] from the
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• Leprosy
  ...Leprosy’ in <i> Jewish Encyclopedia </i> . On the moral aspects of leprosy in NT, see Edersheim, <i> Life and Times </i> , i. 491 ff.; <i> Expositor </i> ..., its presence and workings become visible, in some of the signs described in the thirteenth chapter of Leviticus." - Editor). </p>
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• History Of The People Israel
  .... In this way David, through his wisdom and his popular bravery, succeeded in uniting the tribes more firmly under his supremacy, and especially did he b
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• Damascus
  ...11:33 (Paul's conversion on his way to Damascus, and his subsequent escape in a basket let down from the wall) are more than doubtful. Now ''Es-Sham'' , ...events, but these are not more trustworthy at Damascus than anywhere else in Syria and Palestine. </p> <p> R. A. S. Macalister. </p>
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• Agriculture
  ...er Heb. Archaologie </i> , i. 228 ff.; Vogelstein, <i> Die Landwirthschaft in Palastina zur Zeit der [[Mischna]] </i> ; Stade, <i> Geschichte d. Volkes I ...ruit of newly planted trees was not to be eaten for the first three years, in the fourth it was holy as firstfruits, and on the fifth eaten commonly. </p
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• Gideon
  ...doomed to be by ambition as great a curse to his country as his father was in the main a blessing. </p> ...n’s death. This, together with other indications, leads to the belief that in its original form the earliest source gave an account of Gideon as <em> kin
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• Moriah
  ...y originated in [[Jerusalem]] under Melchizedek. Jehovah's vision to David in the same spot, before the preparation for building the temple there, revive ...ain (cf. &nbsp; John 4:20 ). Geographically, it would suit the description in &nbsp; Genesis 22:4; but there is no real evidence for the identification.
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• Beriah
  ...Their father's sorrow for them was alleviated by the birth of Beriah. This view is possible. </p> <p> '''3.''' A [[Benjamite]] who, with Shema, his brother ...th whilst cattle-raiding; hence the false etymology, <em> bera‘ah </em> = ‘in affliction’ (&nbsp; 1 Chronicles 7:23 ). <strong> 3 </strong> . A Benjami
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• Mount Or Mountain
  ...rious eminences or mountain districts to which the word ''Har'' is applied in the O.T., (See [[Abarim]]); (See [[Amana]]); (See Of The Amalekites); (See
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• Peniel
  ...s in thee, and through thee, to flow in upon the souls of thy whole church in eternal happiness for ever. Amen. </p> ...face." &nbsp;Genesis 32:30. In &nbsp;Genesis 32:31, and the other passages in which the name occurs, its form is changed to [[Penuel]] . From the narrati
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• City Of Refuge
  ...dan there was one city in the northern section, one in the central and one in the southern (&nbsp;Numbers 35:14-15; &nbsp;Joshua 20:7-9). All six cities ...e &nbsp;Matthew 23:35. A similar instance is found in [[Grecian]] history, in the case of Pausanias, who fled from the populace, incensed on account of h
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• Perizzite
  ..."unwalled country villages" or "towns," were inhabited by peasants engaged in agriculture like the [[Arab]] '''''Fellahs''''' (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 3:5; &nb ...distinct branch of the Canaanites (see Reland, ''Palaest.'' p. 139; Kurtz, in Rudelloch's ''Zeitschr.'' 1845, 3:53; ''Jour. Sac. Lit.'' Oct. 1853, p. 166
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• Castle
  ...or a fortified camp and designated the Roman army barracks or headquarters in Jerusalem (&nbsp; Acts 21:34; &nbsp;Acts 22:24; &nbsp;Acts 23:10 ). Hebrews ...cles ‘Castle’ and ‘Jerusalem’ in <i> Encyclopaedia Biblica </i> , ‘Castle’ in <i> Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) </i> . </p> <p> James Straha
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• Ophrai
  ...e probably means Arrabeh, west of Tell Do'than. The former is sufficiently in the required position. For other vague conjectures, see Hamaker, Miscell. P
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• Sechem
  ...Egypt. Upon the hills around flocks and herds were feeding, as of old; nor in the simple garb of the shepherds of [[Samaria]] was there any thing repugna
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• Melchizedek
  ...''''Salem''''' ) was "made like unto the Son of God," Messiah, who is both in the highest sense (&nbsp;Isaiah 9:6); the peace He brings is "the fruit of ...the body of Adam to Jerusalem. The story survives with many embellishments in the Ethiopic <i> Book of Adam </i> ; and only for its beginnings, with mixe
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• Abram
  ...e he stood before the gates of Babylon, and saw the whole people prostrate in adoration. ‘Wondrous orb,' he exclaimed, ‘thou surely art the [[Creator ...is whole conduct in calling Sarah his sister, and she calling him brother, in the close of his apology to Abimelech! "It came to pass, when God caused me
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• Amorites
  ...slaves on government projects (&nbsp;Judges 1:35; &nbsp;1 Kings 9:20-21). In time the Amorites were absorbed into [[Israel]] and so disappeared as a dis ...tones from heaven” (&nbsp;Joshua 10:1-27 ). Amorites also were among those in the north who unsuccessfully united to repel the Israelites (&nbsp;Joshua 1
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• Evil
  ...emiah </i> ; W. Wink, <i> [[Naming]] the Powers: The [[Language]] of Power in the New Testament </i> ; idem, <i> Unmasking the Powers </i> ; A. D. Verhey ...t to the distinctions made in the beginning of this article, the apostolic view recognizes no <i> metaphysical </i> evil, for to be the creature, subject,
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