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• Egypt
  ...Old [[Testament]] period. Even the New Testament opens with a reference to Egypt, for Mary and [[Joseph]] spent a time there with the baby Jesus (&nbsp;Matt ...s co-regency, 67 years in all. The temples he throw of the Chetan built in Egypt and Nubia outshone all others. Sisera, in Merneptab's reign. </p> <p> '''TW
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• Pharaoh
  ...nquest, when the prophecy, "There shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt," &nbsp;Ezekiel 30:13, was fulfilled. </p> <p> (In the summer of 1881, a la ...no more a prince independent and ruling the whole land. [[Cambyses]] made Egypt a province of the Persian empire; since the second Persian conquest, 2,000
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• Plagues Of Egypt
  ...in violation of their charter. </p> <p> The Israelites were thrust out of Egypt on the fifteenth day of the first month, "about six hundred thousand men on ...of God. I cannot better close the subject on the history of the plagues of Egypt, than by referring the reader to the apostle's divine conclusions on the sa
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• Nile
  ...us away to die in the wilderness?" (&nbsp;Exodus 14:11). </p> <p> In Lower Egypt the land spreads out on either side of the Nile in a plain bounded E. and W ...se found the crocodile or leviathan, and the hippopotamus or behemoth. See Egypt , and [[Sihor]] . </p>
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• Palestine
  ...te between the conflicting powers of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Now instead of Egypt there was Rome, at the height of its military power, and armed also with th ...ue Bulimi''''' . In the S. and hills of Judah the genus Helix like that of Egypt and the African Sahara. In the valley of Jordan the bulimus. No mollusk can
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• Exodus
  ..., which are natural calamities brought by Jahweh, and which are limited to Egypt, follow Moses’ repeated announcement (&nbsp; Exodus 7:14; &nbsp; Exodus 7 ...n the southern border of Moab, just forty years after their departure from Egypt. </p>
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• Ethiopia
  ...ich Ethiopia was joined. Esarhaddon, according to the monuments, conquered Egypt and Ethiopia Meroe was the emporium where the produce of the distant S. was ...baptized by Philip. &nbsp;Acts 8:27-38. It is noticed in, connection with Egypt, &nbsp;Isaiah 20:4; &nbsp;Isaiah 43:3; &nbsp;Isaiah 45:14; with [[Libya]] (
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• Jerusalem
  ...lus, holding the upper city, from the Coenaculum to the Latin convent, the lower city in the valley, and the [[Acre]] N. of the temple, 10,000 men and 5,000 ...llum Judaicum (Josephus) </i> VI. vi. 3) we also infer that it was in the ‘Lower City,’ for it perished together with Akra and the place called Ophlas. It
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• Pathros
  ...t was comparatively unknown, as witness Herodotus’ woeful [[Ignorance]] of Egypt above the Fay-yum, and Nahum’s description of No-amon (see No). Yet there ...lled "Egypt" (Aristotle): Herod. 2:15. Tradition represented the people of Egypt as coming from Ethiopia, and the first dynasty as Thinite. " '''''Ρa-T-Res
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• The Exodus
  ...ke Timsah) by way of Succoth, to [[Etham]] or Pithom, the frontier city of Egypt (Heroopolis) near the S. end of lake Timsah, on the edge of the wilderness, ...h silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them." &nbsp;Ps
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• Solomon
  ...to the close of the 10th century B.C., [[Assyria]] was under a cloud, and Egypt from 1200 B.C. to Shishak's accession 990 B.C. Solomon was prematurely "old ...father of Jewish proverbial (or gnomic) wisdom; ‘wisdom books’ existed in Egypt long before, but it seems impossible to distinguish in our present ‘Prove
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• Mizraim
  ...abbi Kimchi, followed in this by several learned commentators, explains by Egypt what is said of the rivers of Mezor, &nbsp;2 Kings 19:24; &nbsp;Isaiah 19:6 ...is a proper name and refers to Egypt. The Revisers and others translate it Egypt in all passages. </p>
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• Zoan
  ...When Isaiah wrote, it would appear to have been one of the chief cities in Egypt, as he speaks of "the princes of Zoan." &nbsp;Isaiah 19:11; &nbsp;Isaiah 19 ...e time of Abraham. It was taken by the Shepherd kings in their invasion of Egypt, and by them rebuilt, and garrisoned, according to Manetho, with 240,000 me
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• Tirhakah
  ...gnawed the enemy's bowstrings. The Ethiopian influence and authority over Egypt appear in the large proportion of [[Ethiopians]] in Shishak's and Zerah's a ...struggles with the Assyrians, who endeavoured to establish their power in Egypt by means of the native princes as against the Ethiopian. Tirhakah was quite
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• Alexandria
  ...that he may have been the writer who used the Hebrew-Hellenic theology of Egypt to interpret the manger of Bethlehem. See also the following article. </p> .... [[Eusebius]] credits St. Mark with the introduction of Christianity into Egypt. In the 2nd and 3rd cents. Alexandria was the intellectual capital of Chris
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• Passover
  ...reference was preserved to the all-important fact of the deliverance from Egypt, the emergence of the Jews as more or less a people, yet time and historica ...e family for the nation's constitution by God through the deliverance from Egypt, the type of the church's constitution by a coming greater deliverance. It
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• Israel
  ...aim. Many towns in Judah were captured also. (Cf. Breasted’s <em> Hist. of Egypt </em> , 530.) How deep the enmity between Israel and Judah had become may b ...te views are projected, such as a small group that escaped from slavery in Egypt, joining other groups, gradually infiltrated Canaan and took on many of its
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• Galilee
  ...e from the east nomadic [[Bedouins]] were continually pressing in upon the lower-lying tracts. But besides these Semitic elements, [[Greeks]] and Graecized ...tain, 4,000 ft. above the sea. There were two divisions: </p> <p> '''I.''' Lower Galilee was the whole region from the plain of Akka on the W. to the lake o
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• Euphrates
  ...of 15 ft. [[Farther]] down 120 wide, 12 deep. Moreover, its water here and lower down is much employed in irrigation; and it has a tendency to expend itself ...the dominion of the Hebrews extended so far; but it would appear that even Egypt, under [[Pharaoh]] Necho, made conquests to the western bank of the Euphrat
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• Red Sea
  ...mals; and by this means God executed judgment upon all the bestial gods of Egypt, as foretold, &nbsp; Exodus 12:12 , that perished with their infatuated vot .... But now the overland mail and Suez canal are again bringing it by way of Egypt and the Red Sea. ''(On Israel'S [[Passage]] Of The Red Sea, See Exodus.)''
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• No
  ...ys Of The [[Flood]] Rains)'' years will I ... bring again the captivity of Egypt." The [[Persian]] [[Cambyses]] gave the finishing blow to No-Amon's greatne ...unishment of the remote Thebes, which could not be accomplished till Lower Egypt was prostrate. The Theban Ammon was often entitled ‘Amen-Rç, king of t
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• Hittites
  ...to whom they paid tribute (cf. Breasted’s <em> [[Ancient]] [[Records]] of Egypt </em> , ii. 213). </p> <p> In the reign of Amenophis iii. (about b.c. 1400) ...e represented as faithfully on their own monuments as they are on those of Egypt, so that we cannot accuse the Egyptian artists of caricaturing their enemie
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• Shur
  ...:22; &nbsp;1 Samuel 15:7; &nbsp;1 Samuel 27:8). The main inland route from Egypt to [[Jerusalem]] passed through the [[Wilderness]] of Shur and the [[Judean ...The wilderness of Shur is the whole district between the N.E. frontier of Egypt and Palestine, Shur being derived from the [[Egyptian]] '''''Κhar''''' ''(
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• Phut
  ...lem was the unstrung bow, and who dwelt in what is now [[Nubia]] , between Egypt and Ethiopia. [[Herodotus]] (iii. 21-22) narrates that the king of Ethiopia ...the [[Mediterranean]] Sea; others, as Mr. Poole, with [[Nubia]] , south of Egypt. </p>
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• Medicine
  ...ts hatched, owing to neglect of the injuries. </p> <p> The third plague of Egypt (&nbsp;Exodus 8:16 ) is called one of <strong> lice </strong> , but the mar ...said to approach the type of [[Leprosy]] . The "botch ( '''shechin''' ) of Egypt," &nbsp;Deuteronomy 28:27, is so vague a term as to yield a most uncertain
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• Christian Egypt
  Christian Egypt <ref name="term_38296" /> ...h have a hospital in Alexandria, and the first German Protestant church of Egypt was opened in 1866. '''''—''''' [[Princeton]] Review, 1850, page 260; 185
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• Shepherd Kings
  ...l representations remain. Accordingly, at the removal of the Israelites to Egypt, in the early part of the Shepherd rule, we read only of asses and wagons f <p> tribe of shepherds, alleged to have invaded Lower Egypt 2000 years before Christ, overthrown the reigning dynasty, and maintained t
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• Abraham
  ...The earthly inheritance was to include the whole region "from the river of Egypt unto the ... river Euphrates," a promise only in part fulfilled under David ...is broken in &nbsp;Genesis 12:10-20 by the episode of Abraham’s sojourn in Egypt, which probably belongs to an older stratum of Jahwistic tradition represen
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• Hyksos
  ...sacked Avaris and expelled the Hyksos. As the first pharaoh of a reunited Egypt, Ahmose I established the Eighteenth Dynasty and inaugurated the Egyptian N ...in, 1848; Uhlemann Issraeliten- und Hyksos in Aegypten, Lpz. 1856.) (See [[Egypt]]); (See Shepherd-Kings). </p>
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• Agriculture
  ...e probably sheds, and may have resembled the flat-roofed buildings used in Egypt for storing grain. Others may have been dry wells, or cisterns, or caves he ...ply was from rain, and rills from the hills, and the river Jordan, whereas Egypt depended solely on the Nile overflow. [[Irrigation]] was effected by ducts
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• Tahpanhes
  <p> A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, in Lower Egypt, called by the [[Greeks]] Daphne. On the N.E. border, near Pelusium, of whi ...n. (b.c. 664 610). According to Herodotus, it was the frontier fortress of Egypt on the Asiatic side, and was garrisoned by Greeks. In its ruins was found a
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• Migdol
  ...vide protection for Egypt against invasion from the Sinai. See Watchtower, Egypt. </p> <p> LaMoine DeVries </p> ...stead of ‘from the tower of Seveneh.’ Here Migdol is the N.E. extremity of Egypt, as [[Seveneh]] is the S. It may be identical with <em> Magdolo </em> in a
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• History Of The People Israel
  ...304), who at that time were trying to force their way through Canaan into Egypt. It was Othniel, the Kenazite, belonging to a tribe that was related to Jud
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• Assyria
  ...ed their conquests westward; and, leading their forces against the king of Egypt, as an invader of their right of conquest, they beat him at Carchemish, and ...;Isaiah 19:23-25 , "Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance."
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• Jordan
  ...id that its course is one continued cataract, so crooked that in its whole lower and main course it has hardly a half mile straight, so broken with rapids t ...110 after sunset. This accounts largely for the unpeopled condition of the Lower Jordan valley both to-day and in former times. </p> <p> <strong> 11. [[Flor
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• Writing
  ...n Europe, we see the [[Pharaoh]] Mandouei combating the nations hostile to Egypt, and returning triumphant to his country. [[Farther]] on, the campaigns of ...tion repeated and baked again. </p> <p> Papyrus was the common material in Egypt; the thin pellicles are glued together in strips, other strips being placed
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• Assyria And Babylonia
  ...Patin, Samal became independent States. Damascus became an Aramæan power. Egypt also was split up, and could influence [[Palestine]] but little. When Assyr
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• Sacrifice
  ...he writer’s thought; it was morally ineffective because it belonged to the lower, sensible world (&nbsp;Hebrews 9:11, &nbsp;Hebrews 11:3), ‘the visible or ...el in Egypt appears from Moses alleging as a reason for taking them out of Egypt that they might hold a feast and sacrifice to Jehovah (&nbsp;Exodus 3:18; &
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• Beth-Horon
  ...p; 2 Chronicles 8:5 , &nbsp; 1 Kings 9:17 ). By this road Shishak, king of Egypt, invaded Judah. Here [[Judas]] Maccabæus defeated the [[Syrian]] general ...the northwest corner of Benjamin, still distinguished as the Upper and the Lower. These lay on two ridges, with valleys on each side; Beth-horon the [[Nethe
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• Pentateuch
  ...y shown to have taken as long time as would have sufficed for a journey to Egypt and back (&nbsp;Genesis 43:10); the hints in Jacob's deathbed prophecy of h ...odus. God took the initiative and by grace redeemed Israel from bondage in Egypt. God acted first, then called the people to respond. Old Testament laws wer
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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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• Hanes
  ...out.] . 660 610) Hnçs was the centre of government for the whole of Upper Egypt. The LXX [Note: Septuagint.] does not recognize the name of the city, and s ...less probably, makes Hanes to be Heracleopolis, W. of the Nile in central Egypt. </p>
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• Miracles
  ...judge of. </p> <p> '''2.''' Publicly wrought; two nations, [[Israel]] and Egypt, were affected by them, and above two million [[Israelites]] for 40 years w ...or the miracles of the OT. The frequent references to the deliverance from Egypt made in the subsequent literature attest the historical reality of that ser
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• Beth-Shemesh
  ...ian]] and [[Canaanite]] rule, evidenced by imported wares from Mycenae and Egypt, as well as quality Canaanite finds, including inscriptions. Iron Age I (Ju ...A city in [[Naphtali]] (&nbsp; Joshua 19:38 ), unidentified. 4. A city in Egypt, a seat of heathen idolatry (&nbsp; Jeremiah 43:13 ), identified with the a
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• Circumcision
  ...all the descendants of Abraham, whether by Isaac or by Ishmael; and still lower down, to the descendants of [[Esau]] as well as to those of Jacob. Circumci ...God, and so were excluded from the sign of the covenant. "The reproach of Egypt" was the taunt of the [[Egyptians]] that God brought them into the wilderne
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• Rahab
  ...iamat]] </em> ) is employed to show that Jahweh will in like manner subdue Egypt (cf. &nbsp; Psalms 87:4 ), and that it is therefore vain for Judah to trust ...rom this there developed the poetical usage of ‘Rahab’ as another name for Egypt (&nbsp;Psalms 87:4; &nbsp;Isaiah 30:7). </p>
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• Gnosticism
  ...να, between the world of sense-appearance and the realm of real being. The lower was but a shadow of the higher; still it was a copy of it. The contrast was ...rse as their nature is capable of; but the really spiritual need not these lower methods of salvation. It suffices for them to have the knowledge of their t
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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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• Jesus Christ
  ...g with other Galilæans Jesus repaired to the scene of the ministry in the lower [[Jordan]] valley, and received baptism (&nbsp; Mark 1:9 ), not, indeed, as ...sire to kill the child Jesus was thwarted by God and the family escaped to Egypt. After Herod the Great's death in 4 b.c., the family decided to return to N
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• Sinai
  ...er, but were at first ascribed to the ancient Israelites on their way from Egypt to Sinai; and afterwards to [[Christian]] pilgrims of the fourth century. R ...ean Stanley says that "from the highest point of ''Ras Sufsafeh'' , to its lower peak, a distance of about 60 feet, the page of a book distinctly but not lo
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• Lubim
  ...long furnished mercenary soldiers to their armies. At length they invaded Egypt, subdued it in the 10th cent. b.c., and established a powerful dynasty, of ...o the Lubim, and who may be placed on the African coast to the westward of Egypt, perhaps extending far beyond the Cyrenaica. </p>
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• Food
  ...ystem alone. Yet we may be sure that the fish which the Hebrews enjoyed in Egypt ‘for nought’ (&nbsp; Numbers 11:5 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ) had the ...eeks, onions and garlic, which were and still are of a superior quality in Egypt. &nbsp;Numbers 11:5. </p> <p> Honey is extensively used, as is also olive o
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• Esarhaddon
  ...h distressed on the way by want of water, he at last drove Tirhakah out of Egypt. </p> ...uered Egypt, took Memphis, and captured two of the king's sons. He divided Egypt into twenty provinces, placing some of them under native princes, and other
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• Vine
  ...ree hundred thousand pounds weight of grape juice, or honey of raisins, to Egypt. </p> <p> In the East, grapes enter very largely into the provisions at an ...e grapes were trodden, and by a hole in the bottom the juice passed into a lower vat three feet deep, four square (Bib. Res. 3:137). Other winepresses were
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• On
  ...us, was given to the [[Israelites]] to dwell in, when they first went into Egypt; and it was a daughter of a priest of the temple of the sun at this place, ...ch, his far-off namesake took Mary and the babe [[Jesus]] in the flight to Egypt. </p> <p> The two famous obelisks, long called "Cleopatra's Needles," one o
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• Rameses
  <p> '''Rame'ses.''' ''(Child Of The Sun).'' A city and district of lower Egypt. &nbsp;Genesis 47:11; &nbsp;Exodus 12:37; &nbsp;Numbers 33:3; &nbsp;Numbers ...general rendezvous of the Israelites before they began their march out of Egypt. Called also Raamses (&nbsp;Exodus 1:11 ). </p>
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• Beriah
  ...sors, but as "come down" is more applicable to coming into than going from Egypt, probably the men of Gath were the aggressors. [[Translate]] therefore "whe ...''יָרִד''''' , "he went down," or "descended," is applicable to going into Egypt, but not to coming from it. The rabbinical idea that these sons of Ephraim
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• Nazareth
  ...e rest of the <em> hocus pocus </em> contrived, that what is shown for the lower fragment of the same pillar resting upon the earth, is not of the same subs ...ill side, nearer the bottom than the top. Among the rocky ledges above the lower parts of the village is one 40 ft. high, and perpendicular, near the Maroni
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• Amalekites
  ...t the very outset, while Israel was as yet feeble, having just come out of Egypt. The motive is stated expressly, "Amalek feared not God" (&nbsp;Deuteronomy ...at most authors make Saul's pursuit of the Amalekites to commence from the lower Euphrates, instead of from the southern border of the land of Canaan. ( See
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• Zedekiah
  ...es took their seats in state in the middle gate, between the upper and the lower city. Zedekiah fled in the opposite direction, namely, southwards, with muf ...usalem, and went to meet him, defeated him, and obliged him to return into Egypt; after which he resumed the siege of Jerusalem. In the mean while, the peop
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• Pi-Beseth
  ...ng> . &nbsp; Ezekiel 30:17 : Bubastis, one of the greatest cities in Lower Egypt; Egyp. <em> Pubasti </em> , ‘House of Ubasti’; It was especially the re <p> A city of Egypt, called by the [[Greeks]] Bubastos, and containing a famous temple of the g
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• Babylonia
  ...e [[Tigris]] and Euphrates, more especially of the latter, whose banks are lower than those of the Tigris. The [[Euphrates]] commonly rises about twelve fee ...elation to [[Israel]] </i> , 1908; Sayce, <i> The Religions of [[Ancient]] Egypt and Babylonia </i> , 1903. Literature: <i> Assyrian and Babylonian Literatu
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• Foot
  ...When inferiors salute those of higher rank, the first act of gesture is to lower the hand towards the ground as if to imply that the whole body should be th ...euteronomy 11:10 the reference is to some system of irrigation in vogue in Egypt, either to the turning of a water-wheel by the foot, or to a method of dist
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• The Dead Sea
  ...en carried on in bitumen; that from the Dead Sea being specially prized in Egypt, while as already remarked, it is by no means improbable that the pits of b
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• Dress
  ...d as may be seen in the representations of [[Syrians]] on the monuments of Egypt. In cases of prolonged exposure to the sun, it is most probable that recour ...ere changed is noted in &nbsp;Jeremiah 43:12; "he shall array himself with Egypt as (speedily and easily as) a shepherd putteth on his garment" (compare &nb
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• Copts
  ...wever, little more than the mere shadow of [[Christianity]] can be seen in Egypt; and, in point of numbers, not more than fifty thousand Christians in all c ...gyptians. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n. pl.) The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile. </p>
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• Archbishop Of Alexandria Athanasius
  .... Basil immediately announced to his own people the sentence pronounced in Egypt; the strong sense of church unity made such a step both regular and natural
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• Benjamin
  ...s brothers before inviting the whole of Jacob’s family to come and live in Egypt (&nbsp;Genesis 44:2; &nbsp;Genesis 44:12; [[Genesis]] 45). </p> <p> '''Aggr ...e in the main between the list given in connection with Jacob's descent to Egypt in Genesis 46, and the list taken by Moses ages afterward in Numbers 26. Be
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• So
  ...ord the more forcibly, because unexpected and direct. The Bible shows that Egypt and Assyria, though remote, were often in conflict during the height of the ...ies. Manetho's 25th or Ethiopian dynasty extended its influence into Lower Egypt in 725 B.C. </p> <p> '''''So''''' or '''''Seveh''''' answers to "Sabacho" o
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• Archaeology And Criticism
  ...semi-barbarous condition of Palestine in the patriarchal age; the desert; Egypt; the comparative unimportance of Moses as a lawgiver; the gradual invasion
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• Jordan Valley
  ...> , many acres are covered with the papyrus plant, which became extinct in Egypt long ago, and is now found in Africa only in the Upper Nile beyond the 7th
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• Divination
  ..., were variously named exorcists, soothsayers, sorcerers, enchanters; and, lower still, magicians, witches, and wizards. They had various methods of bringin ...ool according to his folly, making the sinner's sin his own punishment. In Egypt books containing magic formulae belonged exclusively to the king, the pries
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• Wanderings Of Israel
  ...he Philistines," and the [[Canaanites]] owned his sway. But 40 years later Egypt was defeated by the Amorites, and the forces of the Pharaoh were withdrawn
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• Apocryphal Gospels
  ...rld </p> <p> The second part of the gospel - T he Descent of Christ to the Lower World - is an account of an early and widely accepted tradition not mention
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• Babel
  ...ried away the Jews to Babylon, reduced [[Phoenicia]] and Tyre, and ravaged Egypt; above all he was the great builder of the most beautiful monuments of his ...es on the couch. And there belongs to the temple in Babylon another shrine lower down, where there stands a large golden image of the god, and near it is pl
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• Ships And Boats
  ...nt voyages. In addition to this, there was a regular trade maintained with Egypt, whence Solomon Imported chariots and horses (&nbsp; 1 Kings 10:28-29 ). </ ...ments like Layard, <i> Nineveh </i> , II, 379 ff; Maspero, <i> [[Ancient]] Egypt and Assyria </i> ; Ball, <i> Light from the East </i> , and Reissner, <i> [
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• Abomination
  ...Israelites permission to hold their festival and offer their sacrifices in Egypt. This permission could not be accepted, because Moses said they would have ...e Hebrew, not only as foreigners, accounted by the intolerant mythology of Egypt as unfit for intercourse except that of war or commerce, but also as nomad
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• Potter; Pottery
  ...and Judea, (iii) [[Cyprus]] and Phoenicia, (iv) Egypt; King and Hall, <i> Egypt and Western Asia in Light of Modern Discoveries </i> ; S. Birch, <i> Histor
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• House
  ..., or oblong,’ as the Mishna attests. They were relatively much smaller and lower than ours (see, further, Meals, § <strong> 4 </strong> ). </p> <p> The f ...Aaphaar''''' ) (&nbsp;Leviticus 14:42). In many houses the cattle are in a lower part of the same dwelling (&nbsp;Genesis 24:32; &nbsp;1 Samuel 28:24 &nbsp;
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• Cucumber
  <p> A product abounding in Egypt, a variety of which, the '''''Cucurtis Chafe''''' , is "the queen of cucumb ...reen are most esteemed. They are very plentiful in the east, especially in Egypt, and much superior to ours. Maillet, in describing the vegetables which the
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• No-Amon
  ...to Sir H. Rawlinson, Esar-haddon and his son Assur-bani-pal both conquered Egypt, and the latter took Thebes twice. Cambyses, king of Persia, ruthlessly des ...cally the city of temples, in the ruins of which many monuments of ancient Egypt are preserved, The plan of the city was a parallelogram, two miles from nor
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