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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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• Moses
  ...aron to send a series of plagues upon Egypt, resulting in the overthrow of Egypt and the release of Israel (&nbsp;Exodus 7:14-25; Exodus 8; Exodus 9; Exodus ...&nbsp; John 6:14; &nbsp; John 7:40 [&nbsp; Luke 7:39 ]), the magicians of Egypt (&nbsp; 2 Timothy 3:8 ), the plagues (&nbsp; Revelation 8:5; &nbsp; Revelat
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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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• 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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• Pathros
  ...et without giving to their fellow-countrymen at home any clear idea of the Upper Country. In &nbsp; [[Genesis]] 10:14 the <strong> [[Pathrusim]] </strong> a ...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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• Jerusalem
  ...y and temple were wholly burnt and destroyed, excepting the W. wall of the upper city and Herod's three great towers, which were left as memorials of the st ...hown in the 12th cent. E. of where this palace stood, in the heart of the ‘Upper City,’ while the present Zion Gate upon the S. was taken to be the iron g
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• House
  ...’ or ‘casement’ ( <em> ’arubbah </em> , see above). In the cold season the upper classes warmed their rooms by means of a <strong> brasier </strong> (&nbsp; ...bsp;1 Kings 6:30, where the wood was overlaid with gold), but, even on the upper floors, of beaten mud, sometimes of a sort of cement. In rich houses paveme
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• Dress
  ...nd the waist. On His feet were leather sandals (&nbsp; Matthew 3:11 ). His upper garment, as has been shown, was of the customary oblong shape probably of w ...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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• 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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• 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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• Galilee
  ...during the Roman War. Considerable quantities were sent to [[Tyre]] and to Egypt. Made from the olive trees, the oil was used principally for external appli ...is bolder and richer than that of southern Palestine. On the table land of upper Galilee lie the ruins of Kedesh Naphtali (&nbsp;Joshua 20:7). </p> <p> Boch
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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 ...-ho'ron.''' ''(House Of Caverns).'' The name of two towns or villages, an "upper" and a "nether," &nbsp;Joshua 16:3; &nbsp;Joshua 16:5; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 7
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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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• 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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• Mill
  ...not a piece of a mill stone, but the rider, the distinguishing name of the upper mill stone, which literally rides upon the other, and is a piece or divisio .... Allusion to one of these is made in &nbsp;Matthew 18:6. With the movable upper millstone of the hand-mill the woman of [[Thebez]] broke Abimelech's skull.
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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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• 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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• 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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• Philistines
  ...me that Philistia was traversed by vast [[Scythian]] horde on their way to Egypt. </p> <p> The Egyptian ascendancy was not as yet re-established, for we fin ...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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• 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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• 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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• The Dispersion
  ...ntinuously from the days of Jeremiah. Papyri prove the presence of Jews in Egypt, not only in the towns but in country districts from a comparatively early
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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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• 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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• 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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• Euphrates
  ...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 ...It was the N.E. boundary of the land promised to Abraham, as the river of Egypt was the S.W. &nbsp;Genesis 15:18 . It is called the great river, the river
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• Horse
  ...introduction of horses. </p> <p> The camel, one of Abram's possessions in Egypt, is not mentioned in Joseph's time nor on the Egyptian monuments. Their ear ...mon, having married a daughter of Pharaoh, procured a breed of horses from Egypt; and so greatly did he multiply them, that he had four hundred stables, for
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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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• 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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• 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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• Geology Of Palestine
  ...nd Jaffa. Its true position is uncertain. Prof. [[Hull]] assigns it to the Upper Eocene, but Dr. Blanckenhorn to a post-tertiary or diluvial origin. (7) <em ...nowhere visible, although it may be presumed to exist there also below the upper limestone. (See the accompanying ideal section, after Lartet, through Judea
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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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• 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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• Syria
  ...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 ...arkable of them was [[Antiochus]] IV (Epiphanes), who would have conquered Egypt but for the mediation of Rome (A.D. 168). Then he plundered the Jewish temp
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• Jordan
  ...th is 12 miles, of which the W. part is named "the plains of Jericho." The upper terrace immediately under the hills is covered with vegetation; under that ...ng, its surface being but 7 feet above sea-level. </p> <p> <strong> 4. The Upper Jordan </strong> is a convenient designation for that portion of the river
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• Idolatry
  ...hip attacked later on by Hosea. Even Isaiah can anticipate the erection in Egypt of a pillar (&nbsp; Isaiah 19:19 ) like those which [[Josiah]] in the next ...m of idolatry. Taking its rise in the plains of Chaldea, it spread through Egypt, Greece, Scythia, and even [[Mexico]] and Ceylon. Compare &nbsp;Deuteronomy
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• Aaron
  ...''(A Title Of The True God)'' , [[O]] Israel, which brought thee up out of Egypt," as also his proclamation, "Tomorrow is a feast to JEHOVAH," show that he ...the image or symbol of thy God, "which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." Moses, having hastened from the mount by the command of God, testified 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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• Joseph
  ...departed for Egypt, where Herod had no authority (&nbsp;Matthew 2:14). In Egypt they were to remain till the angel brought word to Joseph (&nbsp;Matthew 2: ...and Customs of the [[Ancient]] Egyptians </i> ; Erman, <i> Life in Ancient Egypt </i> . </p>
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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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• 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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• Rehoboam
  ...on the S. side of Jerusalem, apprehending most danger from the quarter of Egypt (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 11:1; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 11:12-13; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 1 ...David" (&nbsp;1 Kings 14:31 ). He was succeeded by his son Abijah. (See [[Egypt]] .) </p>
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• Bread
  ...e [[Israelites]] as the most general and effective symbol of their life in Egypt. In the initiation of the new covenant also the same humble article of food ...unleavened bread, as a memorial that at the time of their departure out of Egypt they wanted leisure to bake leavened bread; and, having left the country wi
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• Zedekiah
  ...n in the plains of Jericho. He was taken for judgment to [[Riblah]] at the upper end of Lebanon; there Nebuchadnezzar first killed his sons before his eyes, ...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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• Naphtali
  ...25). Naphtali had its portion between the coastland strip of Asher and the upper Jordan. Dan shortly after sent a number from his less desirable position ne
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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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• Nineveh
  ...ith grand hall and chambers, paneled with slabs sculptured with trees, the upper part of the walls painted in various colors, the winged cherubim carved all ...unassailable by worms; furs and iron from Asia Minor and Armenia" (Ancient Egypt and Assyria, by G. Maspero, page 271). </p> <p> The bas-reliefs, alabaster
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• Caphtor
  ...ine came from Crete"; perhaps many of the Cherethim settlers in Crete from Egypt, when disturbed by [[Minos]] and the Hellenes, withdrew from Crete to Phili ...Cyprus. The correct theory is suggested by inscriptions of Ramses III. of Egypt ( <em> c </em> <em> [Note: circa, about.] </em> . b.c. 1200), who tells of
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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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• 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 ...from the spoil of the Syrians. &nbsp;2 Samuel 8:4 . Solomon, trading with Egypt, &nbsp;1 Kings 10:28,29 , enlarged their number until the force amounted to
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• Sennacherib
  ...ainst Syria and the Jews, in the third year of his reign. [[Crossing]] the upper part of Mount Lebanon, he appears to have conquered [[Tyre]] and all the ci ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 ...thrown into the fire. On the road from Akka to Jerusalem, Robinson saw an upper ledge of rock scooped into a shallow trough, in which the grapes were trodd
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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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• Mary
  ...d with the infant Church after the [[Ascension]] <em> praying </em> in the upper room. </p> <p> (2) <em> Place of the Virgin in the [[Christian]] Church </e ...their adoration. The presentation of Christ in the temple, the flight into Egypt, the slaughter of the innocents, and other events connected with the birth
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• New Testament
  ...ptuagint were smoothed down among Greek speaking Jews of other places than Egypt. The New Testament Greek in oldest manuscripts retains many of the rougher ...ntation]] in the temple. </p> <p> 4 [[Visit]] of the magi. [[Flight]] into Egypt, [[Massacre]] of infants. Death of Herod; </p> <p> [[Archelaus]] made ethna
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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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• Architecture
  ...cording to Mr. Fergusson, the ground story alone was faced with stone, the upper story being formed upon a system of beams supported by pillars, and enclose ...Hist. of Phoenician </i> , 142), and was probably introduced by them from Egypt. It seems to have been in favor up to the time of Herod and was abandoned a
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• Seba
  ...hebek, or Sabacho or So, founded here an [[Ethiopian]] kingdom which ruled Egypt. '''''Μeru''''' means "an island" in Egyptian; '''''Μeru-Pet''''' is "the ...amed along with <strong> Sheba </strong> in &nbsp; Psalms 72:10 , and with Egypt and Cush in &nbsp; Isaiah 43:8; &nbsp; Isaiah 45:14 . In the latter passage
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• On
  ...Matthew 21 . </p> 3. [[Performing]] or acting by contact with the surface, upper part or outside of anything as, to play on a harp, a violin, or a drum. 4. ...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,
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• Paran
  ...Mecca]] still runs through the Paran desert. Hadad would take that road to Egypt, "taking men with them out of Paran" as guides through the desert. [[Seir]] ...d. A city may be intended in &nbsp; 1 Kings 11:13 , lying between Edom and Egypt, which cannot now be identified. The exiled [[Ishmael]] settled in the ‘
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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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• The Brook Of Egypt
  ...<i> ''''' ye'ōr ''''' </i> for <i> ''''' naḥal ''''' </i> of the "Brook of Egypt"? It is not art, but experience, in the use of a language which gives such ...international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/brook+of+egypt,+the The Brook Of Egypt from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
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• Millstone Mill
  ...the household mill (so rightly RV [Note: Revised Version.] ), or even the upper millstone, ‘for he taketh a man’s life to pledge’ (&nbsp;Deuteronomy ...aving its own mill. A woman, or sometimes two sit at the mill, turning the upper stone, casting in the grain occasionally through a hole in it Larger mills
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• Inn
  ...es for warehouses to store goods, for lodgings, and for stables, while the upper is used merely for lodging; beside which they are always accommodated with ...as early as &nbsp;Genesis 42:27; &nbsp;Genesis 43:21 , when Jacob sent to Egypt for corn. As the word <i> malon </i> signifies simply 'lodging place,' at f
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• Window
  ...urt of the house, but in every house, one or more look into the street. In Egypt, these outer windows generally project over the doorway. ''See '' [[House]]
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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 ...stress of the world. The whole East was overrun by the armies of Chaldaea, Egypt was invaded, and the city of the Euphrates left without a rival. Until syst
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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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• Fly
  ...s for doing the same work. </p> <p> '''(26):''' ''' (''' v. i.) One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater. </p> <p> '''(27):''' ''' (''' v. i.) The f ...in, is (as the name means) "the prince of flies." The '''''Dthebab''''' of Egypt (Sir G. Wilkinson, Transact. Entom. Soc., 2:183), is like our '''''Cleg''''
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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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• 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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• Dwelling
  ...tral pillars on the basement; when these were pulled down the whole of the upper floors would fall also. &nbsp;Judges 16:26. It may be added that, when a ma
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• Osiris
  ...husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis. </p> ...See Prichard, Mythology, p. 208; Willinson, Man. and Cust. 4:314; Bunsen, Egypt's Place, 1:414. </p>
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• Monasticism
  ...ns on their excessive multiplication. Neither was the movement confined to Egypt. Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and more especially the region of Mount Sinai, s
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• Candace
  ...north latitude. Extensive ruins found in this neighborhood, and along the upper valley of the Nile, indicate high civilization among the ancient Ethiopians <p> [[Queen]] of Ethiopia (the island of Meroe, in upper Nubia, between the Nile on one side and the Atbara on the other). The name
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• Text Of The Gospels
  ...parallel to, though earlier and more important than, the Antiochian text. Egypt was the home of scholars, and if such a recension was made there, it is nat
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• Ark
  ...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 ...d high and two cubits long, and covered all over with the purest gold. Its upper surface or lid, the mercy-seat, was surrounded with a rim of gold; and on e
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• Pharaoh-Necoh
  ...; Wiedemann, <i> Geschichte von Alt-Aegypten </i> , 179-90; Rawlinson, <i> Egypt </i> ("Story of the Nations"), 354 ff; <i> Herodotus </i> ii. 158,159. </p>
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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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• Mark
  ...k’s name. The most widely spread is that which assigns to him a mission in Egypt, and the evangelization of Alexandria. This mission is regarded as occupyin ...iphanius, Eusebius, and Jerom, all assert that Mark preached the Gospel in Egypt; and the two latter call him bishop of Alexandria. </p> <p> Dr. Lardner thi
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• Bricks
  ...e case in the time of Moses. &nbsp;Exodus 5:7-19 . [[Bricks]] brought from Egypt vary in size, from 20 inches to 14-1/4 in. long, 8-3/4 in. to 6-1/2 in. wid ...bor in which the Hebrews in Egypt were most oppressed. On the monuments of Egypt, all the parts of this hard and ancient task-work are painted-the carrying,
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• Hosea
  ...ser III (745-727 B.C.). Hosea rebuked efforts at alliance with Assyria and Egypt as the means to national security. He witnessed the political chaos in Isra ...the Egypt of affliction (&nbsp;Hosea 8:13; &nbsp;Hosea 9:3), not literal "Egypt" (&nbsp;Hosea 11:5). </p> <p> New [[Testament]] references: &nbsp;Hosea 11:
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• Marriage
  ...kiel 16:40; &nbsp; Ezekiel 23:45 ). The earlier penalty was hurning, as in Egypt (&nbsp; Genesis 38:24; [[Tamar]] is virtually betrothed). In &nbsp; Numbers ...and future. I will establish thee as wife." Practicing in marriage law in Egypt was one of the priestly functions, for at the conclusion the contract state
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• Noph
  ...the Hegira, A. D. 641; after which it was superseded as the metropolis of Egypt by Fostat, now Old Cairo, in the construction of which its materials were e ...et up in that place; and the Fatimite caliphs, when they became masters of Egypt, added another to it, which is known to us at this day by the name of Grand
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• Law
  ...hers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices; but this thing I commanded them, ...es by that supernatural Power which had delivered the Hebrew nation out of Egypt, conducted them through the wilderness, planted them in the land of Canaan,
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• Founder Of A Gnostic Sect Valentinus
  ...phites also Christus leaves the Sophia behind and escapes himself into the upper realm of light. </p> <p> The notion of a fall of the last of the Aeons from
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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 ...heory, put forward by Mr. [[Baker]] Greene ( <i> The Hebrew Migration from Egypt </i> ), though accepted by Dr. Sayce ( <i> [[Higher]] Cricitism </i> , 1894
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• Rivers And Waterways In The Bible
  ...e Red Sea. </p> <p> Apart from the significant roles played by the Nile in Egypt and the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, the rivers of the biblical wor
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• Pottery In Bible Times
  ...ation becomes more evident during the Late Bronze IIb (about 1300-1200) as Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty established a firmer control over the affairs of the e
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• Water
  ...n the morning, and again toward evening. The same custom prevails in Upper Egypt, but on a larger scale: and there are caravanserais often found near the we ...ay unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all
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