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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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