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• Herod The Great
  ...was proved to be guilty of plotting to have his father poisoned. </p> <p> Herod's body was greatly diseased: the increasing torments had even caused him to a ...Jerusalem, a work which was begun B.C. 20, but was not finished till after Herod's death, probably not till about A.D. 50 (&nbsp;John 2:20 ). After a troubled
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• Architecture
  ...specially remarkable for their great architectural works. Not only was the Temple restored, but the fortifications and other public buildings of [[Jerusalem] ...rchitecture, but that day is not yet. See, further, Fortification, Palace, Temple, Tomb. </p> <p> A. R. S. Kennedy. </p>
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• Maccabees
  ...(b.c. 63). Pompey went into the [[Holy]] of Holies, but did not touch the Temple treasures. He did, however, make Judæa tributary to Rome and greatly red ...ommission, who was sent by [[Seleucus]] to fetch away the treasures of the temple, to the victory obtained by Judas Maccabaeus over Nicanor; that is, from th
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• Pilate
  ...idence as they had was false and conflicting. Jesus’ statement about the [[Temple]] was repeated and misconstrued. Then the high priest elicited from Him a d ...quarters in the fortress known as the Tower of Antonia, which adjoined the Temple on the N. side. The <strong> prætorium </strong> formed part of this for
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• Agrippa
  ...ith the king concerning the affair of St. Paul, who had been seized in the temple about two years before, and within a few days previous to his visit had app ...Ant. 20, 5, 2; War, 2, 12, 1), together with the superintendence of the [[Temple]] at Jerusalem, and the privilege of nominating the high-priest (Josephus,
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• James
  ...nbsp;James 5:1) the scribes and [[Pharisees]] set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and begged him to restrain the people who were "going astray after Jesus a ...on, that the sufferings of the Jews, and the destruction of their city and temple, were owing to the anger of God, excited by the murder of James. This must
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• The Arrest And Trial Of Jesus Christ
  ...o their pity. He allowed his soldiers to repeat what they had seen done at Herod's palace, and place a crown of thorns upon His head, array Him in a purple ro
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• Rome
  ...e and the Palatine. Near this is a circular building, once perhaps the <b> Temple of Mater [[Matuta]] </b> , now the Church of S. Maria del Sole. The superst ...on the inside. Among other things these include the spoils of Jerusalem's temple being carried away—the minora, the table of showbread, the sacred trumpets
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• Josiah
  ...to immediate contact, as it were, with Moses himself, through the original temple copy. His tenderness of heart (conscience) and his humbling himself before ...ent from God, Josiah gathered Jerusalem’s leading citizens together at the temple, where the law was read to them. He gained their support in renewing the na
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• Antiochus Iv
  ...[Ptolemies]]; Herod the Great; Herod Antipas; Herod Philip; [[Archelaus]]; Temple; [[Dead Sea Scrolls]]; Hasmoneans. </p> <p> Clayton Harrop </p> ...to the eastern provinces and died, after having failed in an attack on the temple of the Sun in Elymais, in Persia. See also [[Abomination Of Desolation]]; [
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• Mary
  ...alem, without their perceiving it. Three days after, they found him in the temple, sitting among the doctors, hearing them and asking them questions. Afterwa
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• Theudas
  ...l down the golden eagle which had been placed over the great gate of the [[Temple]] ( <i> Ant </i> . XVII. vi. 2-4, <i> Bellum Judaicum (Josephus) </i> I. xx ...J. 2:4, section 2; Ant. 17:10, section 6; 12, section 6; 20:4, section 2), Herod's slave who tried to make himself king in the confusion consequent on the vac
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• The Temple
  ...] Ghost. &nbsp;1 Corinthians 6:19 . </p> <p> In &nbsp;Revelation 11:19 the temple of God is opened in heaven, in connection with which are the judgements tha ...the number the palm must be given to the [[Temple]] of Solomon, it was the Temple <i> par excellence </i> . </p>
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• Sanhedrin
  ...on]] des Judentums, 1903, p. 83). As a religious tribunal it outlasted the Temple and State of Judaea , existing in the shape of a body of academicians down ...sp; Acts 23:28 ). </p> <p> <strong> 4 </strong> . The Sanhedrin met in the Temple, in what was called the <em> Lishkath ha-Gazith </em> (the ‘Hall of hewn-
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• Money
  ...are. Accordingly it was usual for two persons to join forces in paying the Temple tax of a half-shekel by presenting a Phœnician tetra-drachm. This is ( ...ince the men who participated in the transaction continued to serve in the temple with no sense of impropriety. </p> <p> Samuel A. Meier </p> <p> <i> See als
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• Gerizim
  ...‘gods of their own’ which every nation made. In the days of Ezra, when the temple at [[Jerusalem]] was being rebuilt, the Samaritans, who are called ‘the a ...ding the so-called "twelve stones." On this platform perhaps the Samaritan temple stood. </p>
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• Laver
  ...17; &nbsp;2 Kings 25:13). No lavers are mentioned in the second or Herod's temple. Solomon's "molten sea" was made of the copper captured from [[Tibhath]] an ...t was used for the same purpose as the laver of the tabernacle; but in the temple there were also ten smaller lavers at which the sacrifices were washed. &nb
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• Herod'S Temple
  Herod'S Temple <ref name="term_33870" /> ...in all a square of more than 900 feet. It is argued by others that Herod's temple occupied a square of 600 feet at the south-west of the "enclosure." </p>
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• Samaritans
  ...hem, (the ancient [[Sichem]] or Naplouse,) Damascus, Cairo, &c. They had a temple, or chapel, on Mount Gerizim, where they performed their sacrifices. They h ...sacrificed at [[Passover]] . </p> <p> Toward the mountain, even after the temple on it had fallen, wherever they were, they directed their worship. To their
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• Pharisees
  ...urch from the State, taught a religion that was independent of priests and Temple, developed doctrines of immortality, resurrection, and judgment to come, th ...performance of its hallowed duties: their punctilious payment of tithes, (temple-offerings,) even of the most trifling things, &nbsp;Luke 18:12; &nbsp;Matth
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