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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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• Jerusalem
  .... In the rainy season a swiftly flowing stream ran from the hills north of Jerusalem through this valley, ending in the [[Dead]] Sea (&nbsp;2 Samuel 15:23; &nbs ...come a star out of Jacob," when the emperor [[Hadrian]] tried to colonize Jerusalem with h </p>
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• Nebuchadnezzar
  ...ra]] (Dowair) plain the pedestal of what must have been a colossal statue. Nebuchadnezzar is the forerunner of antichrist, to whose "image" whosoever will not offer ...the same general plan. Every brick yet taken from it bears the impress of Nebuchadnezzar. Borsippa would seem to have been a suburb of ancient Babylon. </p>
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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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• Captivity
  ...24:17); but [[Adrian]] destroyed them, and built a pagan city, AEia, where Jerusalem had stood. "Captivity of the land" (&nbsp;Judges 18:30) refers to the captu ...d by the Romans. According to Josephus, 1,100,000 perished at the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, and nearly 100,000 captives were scattered among the provinces an
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• Jehoiakim
  ...[[Elnathan]] of Achbor, and men with him, who brought [[Urijah]] back from Egypt, the [[Egyptian]] king allowing his vassal Jehoiakim to do so. Jehoiakim "s ...one mourned his death, and his body was thrown on the garbage dump outside Jerusalem, as if it were the carcass of an unclean animal (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 36:6; &
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• Zedekiah
  ...Jehoiachin]] in the 37th year of his captivity, 26 years after the fall of Jerusalem; for no mention is made of him (&nbsp;Jeremiah 52:31). </p> <p> '''2.''' So ...ctory: one of Jeremiah, who said that Zedekiah should see and yet not see, Nebuchadnezzar with his eyes, &nbsp;Jeremiah 32:4-5; &nbsp;Jeremiah 34:3; and the other of
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• Daniel
  ...er to humble the world power in the height of its impious arrogance; first Nebuchadnezzar, whose coming hypochondriacal exile among the beasts Daniel foretells with ...od (4:1-37). </p> <p> A succeeding king, Belshazzar, failing to learn from Nebuchadnezzar’s experience, brought about his nation’s destruction. In his reign Baby
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• Babylon
  ...ls." The king of the forest now ranges over the site of that Babylon which Nebuchadnezzar built for his own glory. And the temple of Belus, the greatest work of man, ...e district forty years after Christ. On the occasion of the gathering at [[Jerusalem]] in &nbsp;Acts 2:9-11 mention is made of the Parthians, Medes and Elamites
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• Jehoiachin
  ...also, through the false prophets, expected restoration with Jehoiachin and Nebuchadnezzar's overthrow. This accounts for the [[Babylonian]] king inflicting so terrib ...pyist). He reigned but three months, B.C. 599, when Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar, and the great captivity of Judah was accomplished. Jehoiachin was carried
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• Tyre
  ...personified as an ideal man shall be in Messianic days spiritually born in Jerusalem. Her help to Solomon's temple foretypified this, and the [[Syrophoenician]] ...ian]] isles, ivory to adorn the benches or the waists of the galleys. From Egypt, linen, ornamented with different colours for sails, or flags, or ensigns.
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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 ...shall he not see it though he shall die there"; because he was blinded by Nebuchadnezzar before arriving there (&nbsp;Jeremiah 52:11). Also &nbsp;Ezekiel 18:20, "th
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• Babel
  ...or, in order to conciliate the legitimate party; perhaps Nabonahit married Nebuchadnezzar's daughter or granddaughter (Nitocris) to strengthen his throne, and by her ...ly, it represents the ancient palace, coeval with Babylon itself, of which Nebuchadnezzar speaks in his inscriptions as adjoining his own more magnificent residence.
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• Nebuchadnezzar; Nebuchadrezzar
  Nebuchadnezzar; Nebuchadrezzar <ref name="term_6564" /> ...tion of Nebuchadnezzar, except one fragment of a few broken lines found in Egypt. </p> Literature. <p> T.G. Pinches, <i> The New [[Testament]] in the Light
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• Palestine
  ...igantic but faded mural decoration; while the plateau on the heights round Jerusalem and on to the north lies bare in whitish grey. Galilee has more woodland, a ...but plants do not need shelter from the frost. The average fall of rain at Jerusalem is 61.6 inches; whereas the London mean is only 25. [[Rain]] comes most fro
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• Exile
  ...h (520-519 B.C.) urged these returning captives to rebuild their Temple in Jerusalem. The Temple was completed in 515 B.C., the date which traditionally marks t ...Jews under Ezra, Zerubbabel, and Nehemiah, and returned along with them to Jerusalem (&nbsp;Jeremiah 50:4,5,17-20,33-35 ). </p> <p> Large numbers had, however,
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• Babylonia
  ...elation to [[Israel]] </i> , 1908; Sayce, <i> The Religions of [[Ancient]] Egypt and Babylonia </i> , 1903. Literature: <i> Assyrian and Babylonian Literatu ...t followed the death of Cambyses, it was under impostors who claimed to be Nebuchadnezzar, the son of Nabunahid.' </p>
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• Tahpanhes
  ...should the substructure of Nebuchadnezzar's throne be built, implying that Nebuchadnezzar's throne should be raised on the downfall of Pharaoh's throne: &nbsp;Jeremi ...rder of [[Gedaliah]] (b.c. 586), Johanan took the remnant of the Jews from Jerusalem, including Jeremiah, to Tahpanhes. </p> <p> F. Ll. Griffith. </p>
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...'times of the Gentiles' — running on from the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar to the restoration of the Jews whenruled over by the Son of David. The pres ...ew the history of Babylon, the Medes, Persia, Greece, the [[Ptolemies]] of Egypt, and the Seleuccids of Syria. He then pointed to an immediate future when G
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• Chronology Of The Old Testament
  ...f the sequence of events from the time of the Judges down to the Fall of [[Jerusalem]] is correct. Of late years we have received welcome light on the dates of ...istoric dates. Even the conservative system of Professor Breasted (Ancient Egypt) places the first certain date of Egyptian history, namely, the introductio
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• Book Of Judith
  ...A.D. 117-118, to commemorate this day ( '''''יוםטוריינוס''''' ). He makes Nebuchadnezzar stand for Trajan, Nineveh for Antioch, Assyria for Syria, Arphaxad for the ...rigin. But they agree in these points: [[Proper]] names are often omitted. Jerusalem is the scene of action, the wars being those of the Maccabees. Judith is a
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• Nebuchadnezzar The Great
  Nebuchadnezzar The Great <ref name="term_81178" /> ...standing was restored to him, and he recovered his royal dignity. </p> <p> Nebuchadnezzar died, [[A.M.]] 3442, after having reigned forty-three years. Megasthenes, q
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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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• Hananiah
  ...civil, not a sacerdotal, office. The [[Hebrew]] for "over ( '''''Al''''' ) Jerusalem" may mean simply "concerning." </p> <p> '''13.''' &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:23. </p ...’ who, together with Hanani, was appointed by Nehemiah to the ‘charge over Jerusalem’ (&nbsp; Nehemiah 7:2 ). <strong> 10. </strong> The friend of Daniel, who
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• Jews
  ...Mohammedans, in a word, almost all nations have, by turns, seized and held Jerusalem. To the Jews only hath God refused the possession of this small tract of gr ...writer hath affirmed, that it is long since any Jew has been settled near Jerusalem: scarcely can they purchase there six feet of land for a burying-place. "In
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• Habakkuk
  ...d, leaving his son, Jehoiachin, to become Nebuchadnezzar's prisoner when [[Jerusalem]] fell in 597 B.C. People from the upper classes and skilled workmen were a ...the chapters are then referred to another oppressor, either [[Assyria]] or Egypt, whom the Chaldæans are raised up to punish; and ch. 3 is ascribed to an
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• Baruch
  ...ey were, however, both of them at last compelled to follow the people into Egypt, where Jeremiah soon afterward died; on which Baruch retired to Babylon, wh ...g others who are tempted. Baruch was carried with Jeremiah by Johanan into Egypt (&nbsp;Jeremiah 43:6). The apocryphal book of Baruch is evidently one of la
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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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• Famine
  ...<i> Primitive [[Christianity]] </i> , ii [1909] 227f.; G. A. Smith. <i> [[Jerusalem]] </i> , ii. [1908] 563. </p> <p> W. [[Cruickshank]] </p> ...Lord concerning [[Joseph]] and his family, that Israel might be led out of Egypt? Who can question that the famine in the days of [[Elisha]] was the same, w
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• Magi
  ...r of Henry Drisler </i> , p. 31—‘Twelve kings set out from Persia to go to Jerusalem,’ etc.), or thirteen (Bar Bahlul in Hyde, <i> Rcl. Vet. Pers. </i> [Note: ...among them, they might be among those who "waited for redemption," not at Jerusalem, but in a distant part of the world. The <em> Parsees, </em> who were nearl
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• Obadiah
  ...cruelty which he in a still worse degree showed at Jerusalem's capture by Nebuchadnezzar. &nbsp;Amos 1:6; &nbsp;Amos 1:11, and &nbsp;Joel 4:19, refer to the same ca ...tivity of Jacob as having occurred. He probably refers to the captivity by Nebuchadnezzar, B.C. 688. It must have been uttered, at some time, in the five years which
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• Philistines
  ...contest was renewed between the [[Egyptians]] and the [[Chaldeans]] under Nebuchadnezzar, and the result was specially disastrous to the Philistines. The "old hatre ...nes,’ has disappeared. </p> <p> When [[Cambyses]] made his expedition into Egypt (b.c. 525), Gaza opposed him (Polyb. xvi. 40). The [[Sidonian]] king Eshmun
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• Assyria
  ...y further taxes (in 701 BC; &nbsp;2 Kings 18:7). When Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem, [[Hezekiah]] repented of his rebellion and offered to pay whatever the Ass ...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
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• Book Of Zechariah
  ...s control, would be eliminated as He came to reign over all the world from Jerusalem. </p> <p> Outline </p> <p> I. God Is Just (&nbsp;Zechariah 1:1-2:13 ) </p> ...ils to be removed. Ch. 14 gives another apocalyptic vision of the siege of Jerusalem. The onslaught is terrible, and the discomfiture of her enemies is wrought
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• Or Nebuchadrezzar Nebuchadnezzar
  Or Nebuchadrezzar Nebuchadnezzar <ref name="term_67874" /> ...ide he is able to abase." &nbsp;Daniel 2 — &nbsp; Daniel 4 . </p> <p> Thus Nebuchadnezzar learnt to honour the God who had made him the head of gold. How long he sur
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• Book Of Lamentations
  ...sp; Lamentations 4:1 vividly pictures the horrors of the siege and fall of Jerusalem and places part of the blame for the judgment on the immoral prophets and p ...e book on the Black Fast (9th of Ab) the anniversary of the destruction of Jerusalem. In the Greek OT and the other versions Lam. is attached to the prophecies
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• Kingdom Of Judah
  ...h 11:2; &nbsp;Isaiah 27:12; &nbsp;Isaiah 35:10; &nbsp;Isaiah 54:7-11. Also Jerusalem shall be the religious center of the nations, amidst universal peace, the L ...e destruction of the temple (B.C. 588) by Nebuzar-adan, who was captain of Nebuchadnezzar's body-guard (&nbsp;2 Kings 25:8-21 ). </p> <p> The kingdom maintained a se
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• History And Religion Of Babylon
  ...tivity and provided them with substantial economic opportunities. </p> <p> Nebuchadnezzar was the greatest king of the Neo-Babylonian Period and the last truly great
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• Gedaliah
  ...alamity; and many Jews under Johanan, fearing Babylon's vengeance, fled to Egypt, forcing Jeremiah with them (&nbsp;Jeremiah 41:18). </p> <p> '''2.''' &nbsp ...r of the prophet Zephaniah (&nbsp;Zephaniah 1:1), the third an official in Jerusalem who opposed Jeremiah (&nbsp;Jeremiah 38:1-6), and the fourth a priest in th
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• Chronology
  ...hree extant versions of his words." The traditions of Greece, Babylon, and Egypt confirm the Scripture account of the longevity of the patriarchs. [[Sprung] ...becomes a Roman province. In 63Judaea is subjected to Rome. </p> <p> In 30 Egypt becomes a Roman province. </p> <p> 40 Herod is appointed by Rome king of Ju
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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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• 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 ...;" the lepers, for example, of the huts near the [[Zion]] gate of modern [[Jerusalem]] are ''Elephantissiacs'' . ''See '' [[Leprosy]] ''.'' </p> <p> The disease
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• Gaza
  ...esert, suggests that while New Gaza was built by the seashore, the road to Egypt passed the inland and at least comparatively deserted Old Gaza. This view, ...favorable for chariots, Robinson (2:748) found an ancient road direct from Jerusalem to Gaza through the wady Musurr, now certainly without villages. </p> <p> T
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• Apocrypha
  ...God with songs of rejoicing. Still all this is ministering to the glory of Jerusalem. Israel is exalted in the honour shown to her God. The Palestinian <i> Hokh ...and in this language about one half of it has recently been discovered in Egypt and published. It is one of the works that give us a vivid idea of the Wisd
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• Book Of. Zechariah
  ...ow being that Egypt as well as [[Judaea]] was subject to the Persians. But Egypt was an unwilling vassal; and as in earlier times, when threatened by Assyri
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• Syria
  ...s of Greek-speaking [[Jewish]] [[Christians]] who had been forced out of [[Jerusalem]] after the execution of [[Stephen]] (&nbsp;Acts 8:1; &nbsp;Acts 9:1-2; &nb ...f Solomon. When [[Baasha]] of Israel built a fort at [[Ramah]] threatening Jerusalem, Asa of Judah enticed the king of Damascus, “Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimm
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• Edom
  ...which now reigns over Idumea; and the information which Seetzen derived at Jerusalem respecting it is of similar import. He was told, that at the distance of tw ...reat. Just before the siege under Titus 20,000 Idumeans were admitted into Jerusalem and filled it bloodshed and rapine. Muslim misrule finally destroyed Edom's
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• Jehoahaz
  ...o Egypt. The people, feeling Jehoiakim's heavy taxation for the tribute to Egypt (&nbsp;2 Kings 23:35), lamented for their favorite in spite of his faults. ...onths, b.c. 610. Pharaoh-necho sent him a prisoner loaded with chains into Egypt, and there he died, &nbsp;Jeremiah 22:11-12, and his brother Jehoiakim beca
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• Euphrates
  ...is clue to the melting of the snows in the Armenian mountains. </p> <p> [[Nebuchadnezzar]] (Abyden., Fr. 8) controlled the inundation by turning the water through s ...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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• Apocalyptic Literature
  ...(8) Books [[Xi., Xii., Xiii]] and XIV. were written by a Jew resident in Egypt, who, however, “lived in Christian times, and is acquainted with some Chr ...certain sections of which were probably written before the destruction of Jerusalem. Criticism, however, has not arrived at any complete consensus of opinion a
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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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• Alexander The Great
  ...ul vassals of Darius. After the conquest of Gaza, the conqueror marched to Jerusalem. The high priest Jaddua, being warned of God in a vision, hung the city wit ...itans]] solicited his protection. At the close of the siege he set out for Jerusalem, and was met outside by the entire population, with the high priest at thei
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• Hophra
  ...cenaries, and maintained himself, perhaps in a forced co-regency, in Lower Egypt until the third year of Amasis, when he was defeated and slain. </p> <p> F. &nbsp;Jeremiah 37:5&nbsp;Jeremiah 46:17&nbsp; Jeremiah 44:26-30[[Egypt]]
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• Ark
  ...probably took the ark with them to [[Babylon]] after their destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC (&nbsp;2 Kings 24:13). There is no record of what happened to it ...they at last were reputed to be deities. Hence in the ancient mythology of Egypt, there were precisely eight gods; and the ark was esteemed an emblem of the
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• Dispersion
  ...f the [[Roads]] </i> , pp. 286, 305). Those Jews who had had their home in Jerusalem were compelled after a.d. 70 to live after the manner of their brethren of ...support of the Temple-worship, and at the great feasts made pilgrimages to Jerusalem from all parts of the world (&nbsp;Acts 2:10-11 ). They soon lost the use o
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• Book Of Ezekiel
  ...e Levites, and the city, the temple <i> not </i> being built in the future Jerusalem:see TEMPLE,EZEKIEL'S). The position of each tribe is duly stated. The condi ...<p> It may be noted that Daniel, fourteen years after his deportation from Jerusalem, is mentioned by (&nbsp;Ezekiel 14:14 ) along with Noah and Job as distingu
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• Artaxerxes
  ...ich Xerxes' reign takes 21 years. [[Thirteen]] years after Ezra's going to Jerusalem, 457 B.C., it was found that a civil as well as an ecclesiastical head was ...ich formed part of his empire. He took [[Babylon]] from Belshazzar, son of Nebuchadnezzar; and he put in his place Kiresch, who by us is called Cyrus. Some Persian h
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• Furnace
  ...ple, &nbsp;Ezekiel 22:18; &nbsp;Ezekiel 20:22; also a place of torment, as Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace, &nbsp;Daniel 3:6; &nbsp;Daniel 3:11 . On the last we may r ...2:1, </p> <p> '''a refining furnace''' , &nbsp;Proverbs 17:3, </p> <p> '''Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, a large furnace built like a brick-kiln''' , &nbsp;Daniel 3:22-2
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• Judea
  ...and desert country along the southern course of the river Jordan, east of Jerusalem; that which by St. Matthew is called the wilderness of Judea, being describ ...at Caesarea on the coast. Judea was little frequented by our Lord, except Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and [[Bethany]] (compare &nbsp;John 7:1 for the reason in part)
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• Book Of Baruch
  ...er 70 ad. In the time of Pompey, to which Graetz assigns the book, neither Jerusalem nor the temple was destroyed. Nor was there any destruction of either durin ...<p> 3. The son of Zabdai; he repaired (B.C. 446) that part of the walls of Jerusalem between the north-east angle of [[Zion]] and Eliashib's house (&nbsp;Nehemi
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• Targum
  ...stration and better understanding of the New Testament, as of the Old; the Jerusalem Chaldee dialect, in which they are written, being the vulgar language of th ...r has useless and undignified additions. A third translation, known as the Jerusalem Targum, has also some of thesame additions. </p>
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• Phoenicia; Phoenicians
  ...Egypt </i> , and <i> [[Ancient]] [[Records]] </i> ; Budge, <i> History of Egypt </i> ; Rawlinson, <i> Ancient </i> <i> Monarchies </i> ; Rogers, <i> Babylo
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• God
  ...1:6); ‘When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt’ (&nbsp;Hosea 11:1). </p> <p> The NT greatly develops this doctrine. It t ...ocalities as was worship in the temple, whether on Mount [[Gerizim]] or in Jerusalem, but is centered on Christ the Truth. </p> <p> John goes beyond this idea a
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• Remnant
  ...ah 2:12-13; &nbsp;4:6-7 ). The exodus from the exile, like the exodus from Egypt, was accompanied with miracles (&nbsp;Isaiah 11:11-16 ). The solution to th ...&nbsp;Zechariah 14:1-21 ). Ezra recognized the people who had returned to Jerusalem as members of the remnant, but in danger of re-enacting the sins of the pas
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• The Book Of Zechariah
  ....C.]] (80 years almost after Zerubbabel's first expedition from Babylon to Jerusalem), and Nehemiah 445 [[B.C.,]] who rebuilt the city wall and restored the civ
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• Rabbah
  ...vination to decide whether he should attack Jerusalem or Rabbah the first. Jerusalem's fall should be followed by that of Rabbah ''(Compare Josephus, Ant. 10:9, ...nites (&nbsp; Amos 1:14 ), and such it continued to be down to the time of Nebuchadnezzar, who, if we may judge from the prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel (&nbsp; J
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• Nebaioth
  ...l prosperity disappeared. Lying between the three rival empires of Arabia, Egypt, and Syria, it lost its ancient independence; the course of trade was diver ...l prosperity disappeared. Lying between the three rival empires of Arabia, Egypt, and Syria, it lost its ancient independence; the course of trade was diver
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• The Book Of Daniel
  ...to the Gentiles, which took place at the scattering of the disciples from Jerusalem (&nbsp;Matthew 21:43), to be restated at Christ's second advent, when Israe
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• Cyrus
  ...asily. Daniel the Archimagus, his venerable friend, who warned the haughty Nebuchadnezzar, that "head of gold," or founder of the Babylonian empire, that it should b ...e kingdoms of the earth, and He hath charged me to build Him an house at [[Jerusalem]] which is in Judah ... He is the God." Smith's Bible Dictionary (B.F. West
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• Azariah
  ...Ahaz. </p> <p> 19. Son of [[Maaseiah]] who repaired part of the wall of [[Jerusalem]] in the time of Nehemiah. &nbsp;Nehemiah 3:23-24. (B.C. 446-410). </p> <p> ...0 </strong> . &nbsp; Nehemiah 3:23 , one of those who repaired the wall of Jerusalem. <strong> 21 </strong> .&nbsp; Nehemiah 7:7 (called Seraiah, &nbsp; Ezra 2:
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• Ashdod
  ...tichus I (664-610) after a 29-year siege as reported by Herodotus. Under [[Nebuchadnezzar]] (604-562 B.C.), [[Babylon]] soon captured this territory and took the kin ...l [[Tartan]] under Sargon (716 B.C.), to counteract Hezekiah's league with Egypt (&nbsp;Isaiah 20:1). So strongly did the Assyrians fortify it that it stood
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• Philistia
  ...miah 25:20), and [[Nebuchadnezzar]] who overran their cities on his way to Egypt (Jeremiah 47), and finally by [[Alexander]] the Great, as foretold (&nbsp;Z ...their land, lest "the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt." &nbsp;Exodus 13:17. Thenceforward, during the whole period of Old [[Testa
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• Dispersed
  ...ce, and the privilege of sending the Temple contribution and firstlings to Jerusalem, which even Roman governors had at times interdicted (ib. 16:2, 3), were as
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• Nebuzar-Adan
  ...tes, who escaped when [[Jerusalem]] was destroyed. Thence, he proceeded to Egypt, and, either on the way thither , or on the return, [[Nebuzaradan]] again p ...ar's army, and the chief officer of his household. He managed the siege of Jerusalem, and made himself master of the city, while his sovereign was at [[Riblah]]
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• Hazor
  ...miles north northwest of Jerusalem. </p> <p> 6. Name of “kingdoms” that [[Nebuchadnezzar]] of [[Babylon]] threatened (&nbsp;Jeremiah 49:28-33 ). Apparently, small n ...lso in southern Judah (&nbsp;Joshua 15:25). </p> <p> '''4.''' A city N. of Jerusalem, where the Benjamites resided after the return from Babylon (&nbsp;Nehemiah
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• Cambyses
  ...the [[Samaritans]] applied by petition, desiring that the rebuilding of [[Jerusalem]] might be stopped. What the motives were which they made use of to prevail ...; Ezekiel 29-32; comp. Newton, On the Prophecies, 1:357). (See [[Cyrus]]). Egypt was subdued, according to Ctesias, through treachery; according to Panteenu
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• Book
  ...was of course the most commonly used. But after the [[Saracens]] conquered Egypt, in the seventh century, the communication between that country and the peo ...for writing upon, appears to have been the papyrus, a reed very common in Egypt and other places, and still found in [[Sicily]] and Chaldea. From this come
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• Idumea
  ...ey continued subject to the later kings of Judea till the destruction of [[Jerusalem]] by the Romans. [[Josephus]] informs us that 20,000 of them were summoned ...from north to south, the most commodious channel of communication between Jerusalem and her dependencies on the Red Sea, through the continuous valleys of el-G
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• Eagle
  ...adth of thy land, [[O]] Immanuel," </p> <p> &nbsp;Isaiah 8:8 . The king of Egypt is also styled by Ezekiel, "a great eagle, with great wings, and many feath ...."And the Lord is doing so now, in bringing up all his redeemed out of the Egypt of sin and death in this world. But the most beautiful part of the represen
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• War
  ...sailants in flank. We learn from the history of Tacitus, that the walls of Jerusalem, at the time of its being attacked by the Romans, were built in this manner ...nd enjoining upon all males attendance yearly at the three great feasts at Jerusalem, made war outside Palestine almost impossible. </p> <p> [[Religion]] too tr
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• Miracle
  ...scapes harm (chap. 6). Other miracles give Daniel the ability to interpret Nebuchadnezzar's dream (chap. 2), and the miraculous writing on Belshazzar's wall (chap. 5 ...&nbsp; John 10:24-27 &nbsp; 20:29,31 . The deceptions of the magicians in Egypt, and of false prophets in ancient and in modern times, &nbsp;Deuteronomy 13
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