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• Salmon
  .... John’s Gospel, iii., English translation 1880, where, against his former view, he identifies Salome with ‘his mother’s sister’). </p> <p> H. W. Ful ...] on fire. &nbsp;Judges 9:48. Its exact position is not known. Referred to in &nbsp;Psalms 68:14. </p> <p> 3. The father of Boar. </p>
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• Zalmon
  ...h [[Abimelech]] and his party brought boughs and "put them to the hold" of Shechem, "and set the hold on fire" (&nbsp;Judges 9:48 ). Probably the southern pea ...ryphon]] in b.c. 143, when he attempted to relieve the [[Syrian]] garrison in [[Jerusalem]] and was prevented by a heavy fall of snow ( 1Ma 13:22 ). <str
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• Simeon
  ..."For I perceive thou art in the gall," etc. (&nbsp;Hebrews 12:15). Simeon in his prayer, "pray that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon ...ant Jesus in his arms and blessed Him, on the occasion of the presentation in the [[Temple]] (&nbsp; Luke 2:25 ff.). The notion that this Simeon is to be
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• Circumcision
  ...formed to many of them, when no sacrifice of principle was understood; for in order to gain the Jews, he became "as a Jew." See [[Abraham]] , and See [[B ...ical [[Commentary]] </i> , 1902); also E. v. Dobschütz, <i> Christian Life in the Primitive Church </i> , Eng. translation, 1904; K. Lake, <i> The Earlie
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• City
  ...mers had their fields outside the city and their homes inside. They worked in the fields during the day, but returned to the city before nightfall, when ...test of the [[Divine]] power of the religion of Jesus in our day will lie in its capability of giving to the city rational meaning, of transmuting the b
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• Cities Of Refuge
  ...sylum served to limit the rights of the avenger of blood, perhaps because “in hot anger” he might not be able to distinguish between murder and uninten ...hrist to us, &nbsp;1 Corinthians 1:9), now El-Khalil. Bezer, perhaps Bozor in the Book of [[Maccabees]] ''("Fortress," So Is Jesus, '' &nbsp;Isaiah 32:2
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• Salt
  ...ion, however understood, and worse applied, of the offering made with salt in the Scripture? </p> ...its complete dedication to J″ [Note: Jahweh.] (see the parallels adduced in <em> EBi </em> <em> [Note: Encyclopædia Biblica.] </em> iv. col. 4249 f.
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• Moses
  ...through Moses and Aaron to send a series of plagues upon Egypt, resulting in the overthrow of Egypt and the release of Israel (&nbsp;Exodus 7:14-25; Exo ...his whole career appeared to them to afford parallels to spiritual factors in the New Covenant. The following form an interesting study, as illustrating
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• Aenon
  ...ote: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , and ‘Salim’ in <i> Encyc. Biblica </i> . </p> <p> W. W. Moore. </p> .... (&nbsp;John 4:37-38.) John the Baptist, the forerunner, prepared the way in Samaria; Jesus and His disciples must needs follow up by preaching the gosp
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• Idolatry
  ...-32 , &nbsp; Acts 17:22-31 , &nbsp; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 etc. But idolatry in [[Christian]] doctrine has a wider significance than the service of materia ...aptivity several times, from which at last they returned, and were settled in the land of Judea, after which we hear no more of their idolatry. They have
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• Fable
  ...; and for <i> certitudo salutis </i> he adds, ‘we have the day-star rising in our hearts.’ The answer is still valid. Against the charge of following s ...but to an earlier and less developed form, such as is necessarily implied in the more elaborate systems. The heresies combated are no indication of the
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• Book Of Joshua
  ...covenant was made with the people that day, a statute, and an ordinance in Shechem. A great stone was set up as a witness of the covenant. Joshua, the faithfu ...19:51). The Levites, who had no tribal area of their own, were given towns in all the other tribes (20:1-21:45). </p> <p> Apart from the story of an earl
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• Hosea
  ...leads to death (&nbsp;Hosea 13:1-16 ). </p> <p> I. [[Repentance]] results in restoration and life for God's people (&nbsp;Hosea 14:1-9 ). </p> <p> Billy ...king ... in the latter days." But first must come her spiritual probation in the wilderness of trial (&nbsp;Hosea 2:14) and her return to the Egypt of a
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• Idol
  ...e "utterly to abolish the idols," and all "idolaters shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone" (&nbsp;Revelation 21:8; &nb ...<em> ‘tsb </em> (a homonym of the root meaning “sorrow and grief”) is used in several passages (cf. 1 Sam. 31:9). </p>
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• Jordan
  ...ing in a lake where navigation is impossible useless for irrigation, it is in fact what its Arabic name signifies, nothing but a 'great watering place,' ...acquainted with the Jordan; Naaman the [[Syrian]] was directed to go wash in the Jordan seven times, that his leprosy might depart from him (&nbsp; 2 Ki
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• Mount Ebal
  ...p mount Ebal, and others on mount Gerizim, and prove that the congregation in the valley could hear the voice from both mountains. Mount Ebal is now call ...sibility. </p> <p> The importance of the mountain from a military point of view is illustrated by the ruins of a massive fortress found on the summit. </p>
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• Bethel
  ...ps annexed the city to his Southern Kingdom. </p> <p> Bethel was destroyed in the sixth century during the Exile; however, some returned there when relea ...; &nbsp;1 Samuel 30:27). Bethel in &nbsp;Joshua 19:4 answers to [[Chesil]] in &nbsp;Joshua 15:30. Bethuel, &nbsp;1 Chronicles 4:30. [[Hiel]] of Bethel re
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• Preaching
  ...hristian church. May their numbers still be increased, and their exertions in the cause of truth be eminently crowned with the divine blessing! </p> <p> ...M. E. Ross, The Christian Standpoint, 1911, p. 15; A. M. Fairbairn, Christ in the Centuries, 1893, p. 23. </p> <p> M. Scott Fletcher. </p>
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• Altar
  ...in the region. The altars were not to be so high that they required steps, in order to avoid any immodesty which might occur if a priest lifted up his ro ...or "more given to religion" than is common, "rather given to veneration." In &nbsp;Ezekiel 43:15 "altar" is lit. '''''Harel''''' , "mount of God," denot
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• Tower
  ...332 f.). A representation is given in that work (p. 279) of a stone tower in the [[Hauran]] constructed of black basalt, with a stone loft at the height ...le's union and oneness with him, and their everlasting safety and security in him. </p>
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