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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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• 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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• Exodus
  ..., which are natural calamities brought by Jahweh, and which are limited to Egypt, follow Moses’ repeated announcement (&nbsp; Exodus 7:14; &nbsp; Exodus 7 ...n the southern border of Moab, just forty years after their departure from Egypt. </p>
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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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• Jerusalem
  ...lus, holding the upper city, from the Coenaculum to the Latin convent, the lower city in the valley, and the [[Acre]] N. of the temple, 10,000 men and 5,000 ...llum Judaicum (Josephus) </i> VI. vi. 3) we also infer that it was in the ‘Lower City,’ for it perished together with Akra and the place called Ophlas. It
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• Pathros
  ...t was comparatively unknown, as witness Herodotus’ woeful [[Ignorance]] of Egypt above the Fay-yum, and Nahum’s description of No-amon (see No). Yet there ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Passover
  ...reference was preserved to the all-important fact of the deliverance from Egypt, the emergence of the Jews as more or less a people, yet time and historica ...e family for the nation's constitution by God through the deliverance from Egypt, the type of the church's constitution by a coming greater deliverance. It
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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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• Galilee
  ...e from the east nomadic [[Bedouins]] were continually pressing in upon the lower-lying tracts. But besides these Semitic elements, [[Greeks]] and Graecized ...tain, 4,000 ft. above the sea. There were two divisions: </p> <p> '''I.''' Lower Galilee was the whole region from the plain of Akka on the W. to the lake o
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• Euphrates
  ...of 15 ft. [[Farther]] down 120 wide, 12 deep. Moreover, its water here and lower down is much employed in irrigation; and it has a tendency to expend itself ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Syria
  ...a distance of nearly 100 miles. Anti-Libanus, as the name implies, stands lower against Lebanon, running in the same direction, that is, nearly north and s ...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
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 ...t. </p> <p> Previously, he calls to repentance, and rebukes blind trust in Egypt or in man (&nbsp;Ezekiel 17:15-17; compare &nbsp;Jeremiah 37:7). [[Afterwar
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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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• Founder Of A Gnostic Sect Valentinus
  ...the Redeemer, and participation in His Redemption: all, even those of the lower grades of the spirit-world, participate at least ἐκ μέρους in the
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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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• Jeroboam
  ...irst high priest: "Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of Egypt" (&nbsp;Exodus 32:4; &nbsp;Exodus 32:8). The places were hallowed by ancien ...ed, he cried out, "Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of Egypt!" He also caused idolatrous temples to be built, and priests to be ordained
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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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• Sennacherib
  ...himself "the subduer of kings from the upper sea of the setting sun to the lower sea of the rising sun," that is, from the [[Mediterranean]] to the [[Persia ...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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• 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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• Pithom
  ...ished to lesson Israel by cruelty: Israel thrived and multiplied the more. Egypt intended to make their lives bitter to them; whereas the bitterness recoile ...occupied down to very late times. It was capital of the 8th nome of Lower Egypt, and in it was worshipped a form of the sun-god under the name of Etôm.
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• Year
  ...meval week of creation, revived among the Jews, after their departure from Egypt, their principal festivals, the passover, pentecost, and tabernacles, laste ...the 400 "years" mark not merely the time that [[Israel]] was in bondage in Egypt, but the time that they sojourned or were strangers there (the RV puts a co
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• Naphtuhim
  ...aph, Noph, or Memphis, and to have been the first king of that division of Egypt. He is, however, placed by Bochart in Lybia; and is conjectured to be the A ...als </em> (col. 1. 94, 99) a district <em> Nathu </em> , probably in Lower Egypt, occurs, which may be the same. An Egyptian <em> n-idhw </em> , ‘the mars
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• Fable
  ...d its object is moral instruction. As it moves on ground common to man and lower creatures, its teaching can never rise to a high spiritual level. [[Worldly ...roverbs 30:28). </p> <p> The analogies in the lower creatures are to man's lower virtues or defects, his worldly prudence, or his pride, indolence, cunning
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• Creation
  ...nd geology proves the death of whole races of animals before man. That the lower creaturely world has a connection with man in its common present subjection ...they can call their own, except their poetry. Their sages penetrated into Egypt and India, and on their return stigmatized the natives of these countries a
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• Manetho
  ...sec, 4, 16, 34, 36). </p> <p> For literature additional to the above, (See Egypt); also Fruin, ''Dissertatio'' Historica de Manethone (Leyd. 1847, 8vo); B ' ...Egyptian priest and historian, of the 3rd century B.C.; wrote a history of Egypt in Greek, derived from study of sacred monumental inscriptions, which is ex
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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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• Miracles
  ...judge of. </p> <p> '''2.''' Publicly wrought; two nations, [[Israel]] and Egypt, were affected by them, and above two million [[Israelites]] for 40 years w ...or the miracles of the OT. The frequent references to the deliverance from Egypt made in the subsequent literature attest the historical reality of that ser
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• Beth-Shemesh
  ...ian]] and [[Canaanite]] rule, evidenced by imported wares from Mycenae and Egypt, as well as quality Canaanite finds, including inscriptions. Iron Age I (Ju ...A city in [[Naphtali]] (&nbsp; Joshua 19:38 ), unidentified. 4. A city in Egypt, a seat of heathen idolatry (&nbsp; Jeremiah 43:13 ), identified with the a
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• Circumcision
  ...all the descendants of Abraham, whether by Isaac or by Ishmael; and still lower down, to the descendants of [[Esau]] as well as to those of Jacob. Circumci ...God, and so were excluded from the sign of the covenant. "The reproach of Egypt" was the taunt of the [[Egyptians]] that God brought them into the wilderne
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• Rahab
  ...iamat]] </em> ) is employed to show that Jahweh will in like manner subdue Egypt (cf. &nbsp; Psalms 87:4 ), and that it is therefore vain for Judah to trust ...rom this there developed the poetical usage of ‘Rahab’ as another name for Egypt (&nbsp;Psalms 87:4; &nbsp;Isaiah 30:7). </p>
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• Gnosticism
  ...να, between the world of sense-appearance and the realm of real being. The lower was but a shadow of the higher; still it was a copy of it. The contrast was ...rse as their nature is capable of; but the really spiritual need not these lower methods of salvation. It suffices for them to have the knowledge of their t
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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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• Jesus Christ
  ...g with other Galilæans Jesus repaired to the scene of the ministry in the lower [[Jordan]] valley, and received baptism (&nbsp; Mark 1:9 ), not, indeed, as ...sire to kill the child Jesus was thwarted by God and the family escaped to Egypt. After Herod the Great's death in 4 b.c., the family decided to return to N
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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 ...ean Stanley says that "from the highest point of ''Ras Sufsafeh'' , to its lower peak, a distance of about 60 feet, the page of a book distinctly but not lo
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• Lubim
  ...long furnished mercenary soldiers to their armies. At length they invaded Egypt, subdued it in the 10th cent. b.c., and established a powerful dynasty, of ...o the Lubim, and who may be placed on the African coast to the westward of Egypt, perhaps extending far beyond the Cyrenaica. </p>
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• Food
  ...ystem alone. Yet we may be sure that the fish which the Hebrews enjoyed in Egypt ‘for nought’ (&nbsp; Numbers 11:5 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ) had the ...eeks, onions and garlic, which were and still are of a superior quality in Egypt. &nbsp;Numbers 11:5. </p> <p> Honey is extensively used, as is also olive o
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• Esarhaddon
  ...h distressed on the way by want of water, he at last drove Tirhakah out of Egypt. </p> ...uered Egypt, took Memphis, and captured two of the king's sons. He divided Egypt into twenty provinces, placing some of them under native princes, and other
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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 ...e grapes were trodden, and by a hole in the bottom the juice passed into a lower vat three feet deep, four square (Bib. Res. 3:137). Other winepresses were
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• On
  ...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, ...ch, his far-off namesake took Mary and the babe [[Jesus]] in the flight to Egypt. </p> <p> The two famous obelisks, long called "Cleopatra's Needles," one o
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• Rameses
  <p> '''Rame'ses.''' ''(Child Of The Sun).'' A city and district of lower Egypt. &nbsp;Genesis 47:11; &nbsp;Exodus 12:37; &nbsp;Numbers 33:3; &nbsp;Numbers ...general rendezvous of the Israelites before they began their march out of Egypt. Called also Raamses (&nbsp;Exodus 1:11 ). </p>
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• Beriah
  ...sors, but as "come down" is more applicable to coming into than going from Egypt, probably the men of Gath were the aggressors. [[Translate]] therefore "whe ...''יָרִד''''' , "he went down," or "descended," is applicable to going into Egypt, but not to coming from it. The rabbinical idea that these sons of Ephraim
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• Nazareth
  ...e rest of the <em> hocus pocus </em> contrived, that what is shown for the lower fragment of the same pillar resting upon the earth, is not of the same subs ...ill side, nearer the bottom than the top. Among the rocky ledges above the lower parts of the village is one 40 ft. high, and perpendicular, near the Maroni
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• Amalekites
  ...t the very outset, while Israel was as yet feeble, having just come out of Egypt. The motive is stated expressly, "Amalek feared not God" (&nbsp;Deuteronomy ...at most authors make Saul's pursuit of the Amalekites to commence from the lower Euphrates, instead of from the southern border of the land of Canaan. ( See
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• Zedekiah
  ...es took their seats in state in the middle gate, between the upper and the lower city. Zedekiah fled in the opposite direction, namely, southwards, with muf ...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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• Pi-Beseth
  ...ng> . &nbsp; Ezekiel 30:17 : Bubastis, one of the greatest cities in Lower Egypt; Egyp. <em> Pubasti </em> , ‘House of Ubasti’; It was especially the re <p> A city of Egypt, called by the [[Greeks]] Bubastos, and containing a famous temple of the g
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• Babylonia
  ...e [[Tigris]] and Euphrates, more especially of the latter, whose banks are lower than those of the Tigris. The [[Euphrates]] commonly rises about twelve fee ...elation to [[Israel]] </i> , 1908; Sayce, <i> The Religions of [[Ancient]] Egypt and Babylonia </i> , 1903. Literature: <i> Assyrian and Babylonian Literatu
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• Foot
  ...When inferiors salute those of higher rank, the first act of gesture is to lower the hand towards the ground as if to imply that the whole body should be th ...euteronomy 11:10 the reference is to some system of irrigation in vogue in Egypt, either to the turning of a water-wheel by the foot, or to a method of dist
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• The Dead Sea
  ...en carried on in bitumen; that from the Dead Sea being specially prized in Egypt, while as already remarked, it is by no means improbable that the pits of b
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• Dress
  ...d as may be seen in the representations of [[Syrians]] on the monuments of Egypt. In cases of prolonged exposure to the sun, it is most probable that recour ...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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Jordan Valley
  ...> , many acres are covered with the papyrus plant, which became extinct in Egypt long ago, and is now found in Africa only in the Upper Nile beyond the 7th
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• Divination
  ..., were variously named exorcists, soothsayers, sorcerers, enchanters; and, lower still, magicians, witches, and wizards. They had various methods of bringin ...ool according to his folly, making the sinner's sin his own punishment. In Egypt books containing magic formulae belonged exclusively to the king, the pries
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• Wanderings Of Israel
  ...he Philistines," and the [[Canaanites]] owned his sway. But 40 years later Egypt was defeated by the Amorites, and the forces of the Pharaoh were withdrawn
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• Apocryphal Gospels
  ...rld </p> <p> The second part of the gospel - T he Descent of Christ to the Lower World - is an account of an early and widely accepted tradition not mention
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• Babel
  ...ried away the Jews to Babylon, reduced [[Phoenicia]] and Tyre, and ravaged Egypt; above all he was the great builder of the most beautiful monuments of his ...es on the couch. And there belongs to the temple in Babylon another shrine lower down, where there stands a large golden image of the god, and near it is pl
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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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• Abomination
  ...Israelites permission to hold their festival and offer their sacrifices in Egypt. This permission could not be accepted, because Moses said they would have ...e Hebrew, not only as foreigners, accounted by the intolerant mythology of Egypt as unfit for intercourse except that of war or commerce, but also as nomad
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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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• House
  ..., or oblong,’ as the Mishna attests. They were relatively much smaller and lower than ours (see, further, Meals, § <strong> 4 </strong> ). </p> <p> The f ...Aaphaar''''' ) (&nbsp;Leviticus 14:42). In many houses the cattle are in a lower part of the same dwelling (&nbsp;Genesis 24:32; &nbsp;1 Samuel 28:24 &nbsp;
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• Cucumber
  <p> A product abounding in Egypt, a variety of which, the '''''Cucurtis Chafe''''' , is "the queen of cucumb ...reen are most esteemed. They are very plentiful in the east, especially in Egypt, and much superior to ours. Maillet, in describing the vegetables which the
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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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• 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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• 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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• Deuteronomy
  ...n <em> humanity </em> towards all with whom men live, and even towards the lower animals (&nbsp; Deuteronomy 22:1 f. etc. &nbsp; Deuteronomy 22:6 f. etc.). ...e twelfth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites' departure from Egypt, that is, about six weeks, B. C. 1451. That part which mentions the death o
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• New Testament
  ...Hebrew idioms, as "multiplying I will multiply." Words already current in lower senses are consecrated to express [[Christian]] truths: "faith" ( '''''Pist ...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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• Gezer
  ...on the coast road to Egypt, an important post to fortify as it lay between Egypt and [[Jerusalem]] </p> <p> It is the last point to which David pursued the ...stines (&nbsp;2 Samuel 5:25; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 20:4 ). A few years later, Egypt's pharaoh captured the city from the [[Canaanites]] and gave it to Solomon
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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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• 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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• Idol
  ...'''' , a shaggy goat, worshipped with the foulest rites at Mendes in Lower Egypt. Speaker's [[Commentary]] translated "to the evil spirits of the desert": & ...le to put away the gods their fathers had served in [[Mesopotamia]] and in Egypt (&nbsp;Joshua 24:14 ). Perhaps a misguided King Jeroboam intended to repres
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• Geology Of Palestine
  ...d building stones are taken from it in the quarries of Jerusalem. (5) <em> Lower Eocene </em> : nummulite limestone, found overlying the cretaceous beds in ...efore, that its upper strata (the only ones found in the North) must be of Lower or Middle Cretaceous age. In the South, however, the Jurassic limestone is
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• Naphtali
  ...aphtali: it was abundantly irrigated; and its productions rich and varied. Lower Galilee was, however, yet more fertile and beautiful than Upper Galilee. Th ...is still called Belad Besharah, "land of good tidings." The climate of the lower levels is hot and suited for tropical plants, so that fruits ripen earlier
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• Ludim
  ...led Lydians. It is probable that the [[Ludim]] were settled to the west of Egypt, perhaps farther than any other Mizraite tribe. </p> <p> [[Lud]] and the Lu ...c. (See [[Lud]] .) The [[Egyptian]] "Retu," the old inhabitants of central Egypt. They are Africans evidently in &nbsp;Jeremiah 46:9; &nbsp;Ezekiel 30:4-5;
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• Money
  ...d, silver, and bronze. On his death, [[Ptolemy]] I. established himself in Egypt, to which be soon added Palestine. During the following century (b.c. 301 1 ...slave (twenty shekels, &nbsp;Genesis 37:28 ), but he became the savior of Egypt who ironically purchased its entire population into slavery (&nbsp;Genesis
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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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• War
  ...5:14-21). Moses had in youth all the training which a warlike nation like Egypt could give him, and which would enable him to organize Israel as an army no ...alls undermined, or attempts made to destroy them by picking to pieces the lower courses; the defenders: actively engaged in archery, and averting the force
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• Divination Magic And Sorcery
  ...erpent-charming (&nbsp; Psalms 58:5 ). This art, as now found in India and Egypt, was also denominated by the word <em> lâchash </em> (&nbsp; Psalms 58:5
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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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• Mixed Multitude
  ...tion given (1) to certain persons who joined [[Israel]] in the Exodus from Egypt (&nbsp; Exodus 12:38 ), and who fell a lusting at Kibroth-hattaavah (&nbsp; ...journeyed from [[Rameses]] to Succoth, the first stage of the Exodus from Egypt, there were up with them "a mixed multitude." &nbsp;Exodus 12:38; &nbsp;Num
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• Nitre
  .... It was found in abundance separated from the water of the lake Natron in Egypt. It rises from the bottom of the lake to the top of the water, and is there ...h. ''Natron'' is found in great abundance, in the well-known soda lakes of Egypt. </p>
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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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• 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]] ...rred from a passage in [[Plutarch]] (De Isid. 6) that no wine was drunk in Egypt before the reign of Psammetichus, and this passage has been quoted in illus
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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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• Greek Versions Of Ot
  ...Note: [[Q.]] Aquila.] </p> <p> (b) The <em> Sahidic </em> version of Upper Egypt; Job and Ps. are extant complete, and there are considerable fragments of o
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• Weaving
  ...for "networks" (&nbsp;Esther 1:6; &nbsp;Esther 8:15). The Tyrians got from Egypt their "fine linen with embroidered work" for sails (&nbsp;Ezekiel 27:7). Me ...raelites were probably acquainted with the process before their sojourn in Egypt; but it was undoubtedly there, that they attained the proficiency which ena
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• Religion Of Israel
  ...idea which the king no doubt had brought back with him from his sojourn in Egypt, was a concession to the corrupt religious instincts in the nation, and gav
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• Papyri And Ostraca
  ...ar ancient texts, written on fragments of pottery, have been discovered in Egypt, viz. the <em> Ostraca </em> . As the potsherd cost nothing (anybody could
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• Text Of The New Testament
  ...rsion of the <em> Diatessaron </em> itself were discovered, in Rome and in Egypt, and from these the text was published in 1888, in a form modified, it is t
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• Hellenistic And Biblical Greek
  ...i> that the common language would not be spoken in exactly the same way in Egypt, Asia Minor (Syria), and in the ancient Attic, Ionic, and Doric areas, sinc
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• Borrow
  ...sweet prophecy, "the Lord of hosts himself shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and [[Assyria]] the work of my hand, and [[Israel]] mine inherit ...or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; - a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than t
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• Babylon
  ...," &c. "There are many dens of wild beasts in various parts. And while the lower excavations are often pools of water, in most of the cavities are numbers o ...e thus interpret &nbsp;1 Peter 5:13 &nbsp; 2 . There was also a Babylon in Egypt, a city not far from Heliopolis. Some suppose this to be the Babylon mentio
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• Leviathan
  ...11:14; &nbsp;2 Corinthians 2:11). Typhon, the destroyer, was worshipped in Egypt under the form of a crocodile. </p> ...h its jaws alike, the upper of which has not less than thirty-six, and the lower thirty sharp, but strong and massy teeth; and is furnished with a coat of m
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• Abarim
  ...[Peor]] also belonged to the range. The chain east of the [[Dead]] Sea and lower Jordan commands most extensive views of the country west of the river. It w ...hain of mountains that lie 'beyond' or to the east of the Dead Sea and the lower Jordan. &nbsp;Numbers 33:47,48 . &nbsp;Deuteronomy 32:49,50 , shows that mo
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• Go Down
  ...of “ascending to” the altar, which is not just a physical movement from a lower to a higher plane but a spiritual ascent to a higher realm of reality. For
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• Worship
  ...Syria, to Asia Minor and Greece, to Italy, Gaul, Spain, North Africa, and Egypt. </p> <p> The New Testament cites the synagogue as a place of prayer, readi ...humbling the pride which is nourished by superior rank, and in raising the lower classes above abjectness of spirit, without injuring their humility. Piety,
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• Fish
  ...am against thee, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers in Egypt. I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to s ...sp;Ezekiel 47:10; &nbsp;Habakkuk 1:15, probably resembling the one used in Egypt, as shown in Wilkinson (iii. 55), or the [[Draw]] or [[Drag]] net, &nbsp;Is
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• Governor
  ...legati </i> were always members of the Senate, but the others were of the lower rank of <i> equites </i> . It was to this class that [[Pilate]] belonged (M ...cius]] Festus (&nbsp;Acts 24:27 ) are specifically named. Joseph's rule in Egypt also is classified as that of a governor (&nbsp;Acts 7:10 ). Because govern
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• Balm
  ...s as early as Jacob's time, and was exported by [[Ishmaelite]] caravans to Egypt (&nbsp;Genesis 37:25; &nbsp;Genesis 43:11), also to [[Tyre]] (&nbsp;Ezekiel ...Jordan. </p> <p> The trees resembled fig trees (or grape vines), but were lower, being but 12 to 15 feet high. It is now called the [[Balm]] of [[Gilead]]
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• Architecture
  ...ude brick, and when in damp places, or within reach of the inundation, the lower part was strengthened by a basement of stone. They were sometimes ornamente ...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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• Mill
  ...ession in the declaration of Moses: "And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of [[Pharaoh]] that sitteth upon his throne ...ses, immediately above a pivot or shaft which rises from the centre of the lower stone, and about which the upper stone is turned by means of an upright han
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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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• Land Of Egypt
  Land Of Egypt <ref name="term_65975" /> ...iah 45:14; &nbsp;Nahum 3:9 . [[Ethiopian]] kings appear to have reigned in Egypt, and are included in their list of kings. </p>
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• Asenath
  ...st caste. His circumcision, if, as in after ages, it was then practiced in Egypt by the priests, would be a recommendation. However, as it is not represente ...s that she was really one of the primitive deities of Lower Egypt (Bunsen, Egypt's Place, i, 389), for her name occurs as an element in that of Nitocris (Ne
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• Herod
  ...) records his anxiety to stand well with the Roman governors, Alexander in Egypt, and Gessius [[Florus]] in Judaea, in the latter case Berenice accompanying ...When the emperor afterward travelled through Syria, in his way to and from Egypt, he was entertained, with the utmost magnificence by Herod; in recompense f
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• Seal
  ...nt. &nbsp;Genesis 38:18. The ring or the seal as an emblem of authority in Egypt, [[Persia]] and elsewhere is mentioned in &nbsp;Genesis 41:42; &nbsp;1 King ...nt. &nbsp;Genesis 38:18. The ring or the seal as an emblem of authority in Egypt, Persia, and elsewhere is mentioned in &nbsp;Genesis 41:42; &nbsp;1 Kings 2
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• South
  ...ompare &nbsp;1 Samuel 27:8. Some lived in the hills, others in the fertile lower level to which the wadies debouch; so now the Azazimeh. </p> ...nbsp;Acts 27:13, '''''Νότος''''' , auster, and 28:13. (See Wind). </p> <p> Egypt and Arabia lay south in respect of Canaan, and were therefore frequently me
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• Jeremiah
  ...edia, then marched through Asia Minor, and even forced their way as far as Egypt. They crossed through Canaan, passing by on their march from East to West,
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• Succoth
  ...route from es-Salt to ed-Dâmiyeh (see the map), and Succoth on one of the lower terraces of the Jordan valley (which here sinks from -500 ft. to -1000 ft.) ...et''''' or '''''Sochot''''' , the "domain of an officer of state" in Lower Egypt not far from Memphis, in the time of Chufu (&nbsp;Exodus 12:37; &nbsp;Exodu
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• Neo-Platonism
  ...ng from God in such a manner that each remoter emanation is possessed of a lower degree of perfection than its principle. Fire gives forth heat, snow causes
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• Polytheism
  ...line cannot be drawn between the religious conceptions of paganism in the lower and in its higher culture. </p> <p> We ha </p>
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• Codex Alexandrinus
  ...context refers to the Bible used by Greek-speaking Christians who lived in Egypt and elsewhere during the early history of Christianity. This Bible containe * Damaged: [[Book of Genesis|Gen]] 14:14-17, 15:1-5, 15:16-19, 16:6-9 (lower portion of torn leaf lost);<ref name = Gregory>[[Caspar René Gregory|C. R.
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• Division Of The Earth
  ...of the rest by the constitution of one of the most eminent, the kingdom of Egypt, &nbsp; Genesis 47:15-27 . The Egyptians were masters of their persons and
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• Gilgal
  ...been found four miles from Shiloh, and five from Bethel, which is 500 ft. lower; this may be the Gilgal of &nbsp;2 Kings 2:3. Gilgal not far from Shechem, ...man in the flesh lives: cf. &nbsp;Colossians 3:3-5 . Here the reproach of Egypt was 'rolled away' (from which the name of the place was called 'Gilgal'), a
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• Nineveh
  ...[[Esarhaddon]] succeeded, as he styles himself "king of Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Meroe, and Ethiopia;" or Asnapper; he imprisoned Manasseh. (See [[Asnapper ...e building was deserted and allowed to fall to decay, gradually buried the lower chambers with their ruins, and protected the sculptured slabs from the effe
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• Farm
  ...ne, Mod. Egypt. chapter 7). </p> <p> Dr. Thomson thus describes the modern lower class of farmers in Palestine (Land and Book, 1:531 sq.): "These farmers ab
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• Priest
  ...hief and technical designation of a Christian minister. Other officials of lower rank, and, in later centuries, of higher rank, were appointed in the intere ...'''''Qadash''''' ) is appropriated to the priest, as '''''Tahar''''' the "lower term" to the Levites. Their old garments were laid aside, their bodies wash
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• Apocrypha
  ...ature, which was recognized as nearer to the standard of Scripture, and in Egypt included in the later canon (at all events as in one collection of sacred b ...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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• Job
  ...here is no reason for thinking that he wrote either in [[Babylonia]] or in Egypt. He must have lived in some region where he could study the life of the des ...he defenceless country of Idumea, and roved from the [[Euphrates]] even to Egypt. </p> <p> The different parts of the book of Job are so closely connected t
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• Philosophy
  ...to hold no conversation with women, and to refuse to sit at table with the lower class of people, &nbsp;Matthew 9:11; &nbsp;John 4:27 . The subjects on whic ...God moved upon the face of the waters." </p> <p> Thales brought also from Egypt the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. [[Brucker]] (Hist. Philos.) in
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• Bee
  ...and fallen man's redemption. The scarcity of honey ( '''''Dibash''''' ) in Egypt is implied in Jacob's thinking "a little honey" worth including in the pres ...n the fields, and summoning them again to return when the heavens begin to lower, or the shadows of evening to fall. In this manner [[Jehovah]] threatens to
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• Prophets Prophecy
  ...gs 19:1-37 ); sometimes they recommended a policy of neutrality as between Egypt and [[Assyria]] (&nbsp; Isaiah 30:1-33 ); whilst, as already pointed out, i
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• Possession
  ...n uncommon disease, and that the Chinese ascribed it, as all people of the lower culture do and did, to the action of demons-a belief confirmed among the Ch
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• Eden
  ...rse into the Tigris, which it has ever since preserved. But it is only the lower parts of the Euphrates and Tigris, as they creep through the plains of Baby ...ates, and the two western ones through the regions answering to Arabia and Egypt. Man was to dress and keep the garden, for without human culture, grain and
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• Flies
  ...ord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria," &nbsp; Isaiah 7:18 . If t ...t,] "shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria." (&nbsp;Isaiah 7:17-18) </
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...contests between the king of the north (Syria) and the king of the south (Egypt) — branches of the Grecian empire — often in the land of [[Palestine]] wh ...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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• Owl
  ...<em> cup, </em> and the pelican is remarkable for a pouch or bag under the lower jaw; but there are good reasons for supposing that bird to be the קאת of ...''''Βubo Maximus''''' , not as [[Septuagint]] the ibis, the sacred bird of Egypt. Maurer thinks the heron or crane, from '''''Nashaf''''' "to blow," as it u
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• Persia
  ...28; &nbsp;Isaiah 45:1-4; &nbsp;Ezra 1:2-4). His son Cambyses III conquered Egypt (Ahasnerus, &nbsp;Ezra 4:6), but failed in Ethiopia. Then the Magian priest ..., the Persian Empire continued to grow. Cambyses II, Cyrus' son, conquered Egypt in 525 B.C. Cambyses' successor Darius I expanded the empire eastward to th
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• Phoenicia
  ...gave virtual independence to Phoenicia, using the Phoenician fleet against Egypt and Greece. Alexander the Great put an end to Phoenician political power, b ...even under the [[Ptolemies]] the intimate connection between Phoenicia and Egypt still existed. </p> <p> From Palestine the Phoenicians imported, besides wh
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• River.
  ...of that name, which was anciently called Rhinocorura. The "river (yeor) of Egypt" is, however, the Nile; and it is unfortunate that the two are riot so well
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• Blood
  ...1). The same usage together with dependence on the story of the plagues in Egypt appears in Rev. (&nbsp;Revelation 6:12; &nbsp;Revelation 8:7; &nbsp;Revelat ...ng the firstborn in Egypt, he would pass by the houses in Israel's part of Egypt that were marked in this fashion. In terms of its redemptive effects, none
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• Wine
  ...vats were usually hewn in the solid rock, the upper broad and shallow, the lower smaller and deeper. The first drops ("the tear," '''''Dema''''' , margin &n ...or was at once collected in vessels. A hand-press was occasionally used in Egypt, but we have no notice of such an instrument in the Bible. </p> <p> As to t
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• Carchemish
  ...ian territory within the new [[Babylonian]] Empire, Pharaoh [[Neco]] II of Egypt came to Carchemish to try to save the remnants of the Assyrian army. He hop ...es, from whence its possession was a matter of contest between Babylon and Egypt (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 35:20). Taken by Pharaoh [[Necho]] after the battle of
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• Chain
  ...In ship-building, chains are strong links or plates of iron, bolted at the lower end to the ships side, used to contain the blocks called dead eyes, by whic ...(&nbsp;Genesis 41:42). Was the badge of a judge, and a prime minister, in Egypt. Judges wore the image of Thmei, or truth, attached from their neck (compar
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• Hyssop
  ...n a mixture, '''''Dukkah''''' , a food of the poorer classes (Lane, Modern Egypt, 1:200; &nbsp;Exodus 12:22; &nbsp;Leviticus 14:4-51; &nbsp;Numbers 19:6; &n ...operties and growing on walls, the true hyssop should be a plant common to Egypt, [[Sinai]] and Palestine, and capable of producing a stick three or four fe
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• Inn
  ...and durable materials, have commonly one story above the ground floor, the lower of which is arched, and serves for warehouses to store goods, for lodgings, ...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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• Jew
  ...o save them from the loss of their property. </p> <p> The populace and the lower clergy also must be satisfied; they, too, had passions to gratify. A wholes
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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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• Egyptian Plagues
  ...nd De Wette are inclined to believe that it is merely the version of Upper Egypt transferred to the idiom of the particular place where the Bashmuric was sp
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• Sin
  ...tes the appearance of man upon the earth from the development of other and lower forms of life. It is hazardous, and quite unnecessary, to contend for organ ...into a public sin. If a man commit one sin, it is like the melting of the lower glacier upon the Alps, the others must follow in time. As certainly as you
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• Type
  ...red by the history of the chosen people and the chosen land. [[Sodom]] and Egypt have their spiritual counterparts (&nbsp;Revelation 11:8), the fall of [[Ba ...only prepared for, but also shadowed forth, by that which precedes in the lower spheres" (Van Oosterzee). </p> Literature <p> P. Fairbairn, <i> Typology of
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• Mary
  ...death. From the [[Temple]] they returned to Bethlehem, whence they fled to Egypt from the cruelty of Herod, on whose death they returned, and settled in Naz ...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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• City
  ...ace discovered at Gezer ( <i> Bible Sidelights </i> , chapter iii) is at a lower level than the city surrounding it, and lies North and South. It is about 1
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• Sea
  ...Moses thus: ‘This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years’ (&nbsp;Acts 7:36) ...re than twelve or fifteen feet in depth, &nbsp;Joshua 15:2 . </p> <p> This lower part is believed to cover the sites of the cities destroyed by fire from he
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• Oil
  ...ities both to the West, by way of [[Tyre]] (&nbsp; Ezekiel 27:17 ), and to Egypt (&nbsp; Hosea 12:1 ). </p> <p> This abundance of oil furnished the [[Hebrew ...h the Tyrians (&nbsp;Ezekiel 27:17), who probably re-exported it, and with Egypt (&nbsp;Hosea 12:1). It formed an important part of the supplies sent by [[S
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• Reed
  ...her by a glue, and pressed and dried. The [[Egyptians]] stewed and ate the lower part of the papyrus (Herodotus ii. 92). It grows from three to six feet hig ...But the word is not unfrequently used in [[Scripture]] figuratively. Thus Egypt, an account of her inability to Israel, is called a reed. (&nbsp;2 Kings 18
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• Images
  ...nd special "god of the physicians" in Babylon; Thoth, the god of wisdom in Egypt, who healed the eye of [[Horus]] and brought [[Osiris]] to life again; Apol
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• Remphan
  ...th full board and face of the type given on the monuments to nations E. of Egypt. Ken was represented naked, holding grain in both hands, and standing on a ...aim. It is probable that Adram, and Anam, or On, were the ancient idols of Egypt: [[Potipherah]] was the priest of the latter. (&nbsp;Genesis 41:45) What an
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• Spinning And Weaving
  ...m [[Babylonia]] (&nbsp;Joshua 7:21 ), PhÅ“nicia (&nbsp; Ezekiel 27:16 f.), Egypt, and in NT times even from India for the high priest’s dress (Mishna, <em
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• Serpent Of Brass
  ...o reproduce itself. The highest of all symbols might share the fate of the lower. It was possible even for the cross of Christ to pass into a Nehushtan (com
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• Noah
  ...been marred by man's sin. Terror, not as in Eden love, should subject the lower animals to man, God's vicegerent. </p> <p> Vegetable diet had heretofore be ...ntended. Thus, for instance, it is said that " ''All Countries'' came into Egypt to [[Joseph]] to buy corn and that" a decree went out from [[Caesar]] [[Aug
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• Beard
  ...hair to grow from below the ears to the chin: where, as well as upon their lower lips, their beards are long. When they mourned, they entirely shaved the ha ...part curled up. The Hebrews probably, allowed their beards to grow when in Egypt; and we find in their subsequent history that neglect of them was a proof o
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• Heaven
  ...rought all the symbols of the previous apocalyptic, from [[Babylonia]] and Egypt in the remote past down to the almost contemporary visions or Ezra and Baru ...used in the expression ''"The Heaven And The Earth",'' or ''"The Upper And Lower Regions".'' &nbsp;Genesis 1:1. </p> <p> 3. '''Marom''' , used for heaven in
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• Lebanon
  ...there has been a very great improvement in recent years, and the terraced lower slopes of the mountain are now covered with mulberry, walnut, and olive tre ...most exquisite kind for flavour and fragrance. The rains which fall in the lower regions of Lebanon, and the melting of the snow in the upper ones, furnish
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• Ethics
  ...24:1-4; see [[Divorce]] ; SLAVERY). This does not mean that Christians may lower their moral standards to the level of the civil law; for something that is ...d only by the suppression of the animal passions and the mortifying of the lower life. Plato affords us also the primal elements of social ethics. Morality
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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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• Essence
  ...B.C. 200; and says farther that the Therapeuts (founded about B.C. 170) of Egypt and elsewhere were in name and essence an imitation of the Essenes. He asse
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• Demoniacal Possession Demon Demoniacs
  ...orcism]] of demons, to whom all sickness was ascribed, was very ancient in Egypt.] obedience to certain commands is also a safe-guard, <i> e.g. </i> fixing
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• Immortality
  ...course, not confined to Palestine, but, as we know, was spread throughout Egypt, Asia Minor, and all the [[Mediterranean]] coasts by means of the synagogue ..."Both of the main arguments employed by him are no less applicable to the lower animals than to man, and just as much prove the immortality of the living p
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• Festivals
  ...n in the Lord of the covenant. God had redeemed His people from bondage in Egypt (&nbsp;Leviticus 25:42 ), and none of them was again to be reduced to the s ...ring emotion of national and brotherly love, all the higher, nay, even the lower feelings, of each Hebrew heart. </p> <p> Another effect of these festivals
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• Time
  ...ael]] and Judah respectively. Occasionally the deliverance from bondage in Egypt is used as a starting-point (&nbsp;1 Kings 6:1), or the building of the [[T ...ronological statement. 430 years is the time assigned to the sojourning in Egypt, both in OT and NT (&nbsp;Exodus 12:40 , &nbsp; Galatians 3:17 ), and the c
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• Leprosy
  ...in [[Egyptian]] inscriptions many centuries before the [[Israelites]] left Egypt. It is also said that it was known in India at an equally primitive period. ...'''''—''''' in moist and dry localities. It still exists in Palestine and Egypt '''''—''''' the latter its most familiar home, although Dr. Kitto thinks
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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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• Proselyte
  ...having his home ‘in a strange land’ (like the [[Israelites]] themselves in Egypt: hence they are called προσήλυτοι, &nbsp;Exodus 22:21; &nbsp;Exod ...nd the formal side of their religion. They never did anything, however, to lower or compromise the moral demands of their faith. They rigorously insisted on
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• Wind
  ...cts of this scourge not far south of [[Beersheba]] (Researches, 1:196). In Egypt the south wind (khamsin) prevails in the spring, a portion of which, in the
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• The Ten Commandments
  ...ah and from Noah to Abraham, the ten trials of Abraham, the ten plagues of Egypt, and the like; but the ten divine words find no place in the list. With all ...and &nbsp; Deuteronomy 5:15 links it with the deliverance from bondage in Egypt. </p> <p> (5) The transition from duties to God to duties to men is made na
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• Mazor
  ...to be so called as being strongly fortified (see Died. Sic. 1:31). (See [[Egypt]]); (See Fortress). </p>
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• Sun
  ...e earliest idolatry (&nbsp;Job 31:26-27); '''''Ra''''' was "the sun god in Egypt"; '''''Οn''''' was "the city of the sun worship" (&nbsp;Jeremiah 43:13; He ...acquainted with the idolatrous worship of the sun during the captivity in Egypt, both from the contiguity of [[On]] , the chief seat of the worship of the
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• Amon
  ..., about.] </em> . b.c. 1450), came to an end with Esarhaddon’s invasion of Egypt (b.c. 670; cf. &nbsp; Jeremiah 46:25 f.) and the destruction of Thebes by [ ...y recognize their own [[Zeus]] and Jupiter. His chief temple and oracle in Egypt were at Thebes, a city peculiarly consecrated to him, and which is probably
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• Cock
  ...and unaccountable fact. They were, indeed, it may be surmised, unknown in Egypt when the [[Mosaic]] law was promulgated, and, though imported soon after, t ...oticed in the Hebrew Scriptures. They were, it may be surmised, unknown in Egypt when the Mosaic law was promulgated, and, though imported soon after, they
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• Joshua
  ...nd guide, a mastermind to control the work, as did the oppressed people in Egypt or the wanderers in the desert. That Joshua was not so great a man as his p
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• Ascend Come Up
  ...se of <em> ‛elyôn </em> in Gen. 40:17 means “the upper” as opposed to “the lower.” Where referring to or naming God, <em> ‛elyôn </em> means “the hig
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• Corn
  ...n the center of the upper millstone; and in the operation of grinding, the lower was fixed, and the upper made to move round upon it with considerable veloc ...grain or maize was known and used in Palestine as it was at [[Thebes]] in Egypt, where grains and leaves of it have been found under mummies. The wheat roo
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• Laver
  ...pper; Heb. nihsheth), made from the metal mirrors the women brought out of Egypt (&nbsp;Exodus 38:8 ). It contained water wherewith the priests washed their ...the base was one and a half cubit, and the space between this top and the lower surface of the laver one and a half cubit more. The laver rested on support
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• Cubit
  ...ength than the ordinary “cubit.” </p> <p> There was an official “cubit” in Egypt. In fact, there were both a shorter “cubit” (17.6 inches) and a longer ...very dissimilar length, the cubit must of necessity have been various. The lower arm, moreover, may take in the entire length from the elbow to the tip of t
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• Wisdom
  ...ir own glorious work, the direct preaching of Christ, for the lecturing on lower themes.… The power of the pulpit lies in preaching Christ, and will be st ...sexual purity, and family relations. This subcategory is sometimes called lower or practical wisdom. The wisdom psalms divide into these categories as well
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• Seraphim
  ...s 19:13). Those in the presence of Eastern monarchs cover the whole of the lower part of their persons ''(Which The "Feet" Include)'' . [[Service]] consists ...lthough it is true that the worship of [[Serapis]] was not introduced into Egypt till the time of the [[Ptolemies]] (Wilkinson, Anc. AEgypt. 4, 360 s. q.),
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• Essenes
  ...eed the Pharisees. The Order was in four grades, and contact with one of a lower grade constituted a defilement. Where the [[Pharisee]] washed, the Essene b ...es, the Essenes of a higher grade were averse from contact with those of a lower, as if they were rendered unclean by it, and when any thing of this kind di
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• Egyptians
  ...tory the soul passed into other scenes; if the reverse it passed into some lower animal. Thus did Satan delude these cultivated descendants of [[Ham]] ! </p
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• Goat
  ...om all which it is highly probable, that the [[Israelites]] had learned in Egypt to worship certain demons, or sylvan deities, under the symbolical figure o ...having the nasal bones singularly elevated, the nose contracted, with the lower jaw protruding the incisors. &nbsp;Genesis 15:9. Several words are used in
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• Wages
  .... This "Mesopotamian exile" is a prelude to Israel's oppressive sojourn in Egypt, where a tyrannical [[Pharaoh]] pays her the "wages" of a slave (&nbsp;Exod ...Polyb. Vi. 39. </p> <p> In earlier times, it is probable that the rate was lower; but it is likely that laborers, and also soldiers, were supplied with prov
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• Fishing
  ...of fishermen; and allusion to the artificial reservoirs and fish-ponds of Egypt occurs in the [[Prophets]] (&nbsp;Isaiah 19:8-10). Fishing pavilions, appar
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• Incarnation
  ...to the lower angels and the '''''Δημιουργός''''' , Demiurge, to whom this lower world was subject. Moreover, he had never in reality assumed a material bod
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• Philo
  ...consequence whether the ascetic circles there described really existed in Egypt or whether he is drawing an ideal picture. It is unnecessary and incorrect ..., thence to descend to the lower, and thus to make the former descend into lower degrees. It desired likewise directly to conceive the divine,, the ideal, b
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• Burial
  ...undisturbed on the very spot where Jesus had lain, the linen cloths on the lower ledge which had upheld the body, the napkin ‘by itself on the slightly ra ...ears, melodious in their wo." POPE. </em> </strong> </p> <p> In Egypt, the lower class of people call in women who play on the tabor; and whose business it
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• Coptic Versions
  ...ts are often classed together as "Middle Egyptian" and (4) is then called "Lower Sahidic." </p> II. Versions <p> In all 5 dialects more or less complete ver
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• Eschatology Of The Old Testament (With Apocryphal And Apocalyptic Writings)
  ...nt]] [[Babylonians]] </i> , and Gifford Lectures, <i> Religions of Ancient Egypt and [[Babylonia]] </i> ; Dr. Charles, <i> [[Eschatology]] </i> , chapter ii
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• Earthquake
  ...ness often accompanying earthquakes. The Jordan Valley, with a lower and a lower valley, the sulphurous and bituminous neighborhood of the Dead Sea, the lav ...9; &nbsp;Revelation 16:18 . Symbolically they point to the upheaval of the lower masses of society, overthrowing the social system either partially or entir
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• Hell
  ...issue from a Jewish-Christian source, and its place of origin seems to be Egypt. [[Elements]] of Egyptian thought enter into its literary form, among the m ...en anticipated. </p> 2. The place of the dead, or of souls after death the lower regions, or the grave called in Hebrew, sheol, and by the Greeks, hades. &n
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• Trance
  .... As in other things, so also here, the phenomena are common to higher and lower, to true and false systems. </p> <p> We may not point to trances, and ecsta ...am]] (&nbsp;Genesis 15:12), during which the bondage of his descendants in Egypt was revealed to him. Possibly all the accounts recorded in that chapter occ
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• Melons
  ...11:6 . Here the water-melon is specially referred to, as it was common in Egypt in ancient times. No fruit is more appreciated in the arid wilderness. [[Me ...llus. </i> The melon was one of the fruits the [[Israelites]] had eaten in Egypt, and for which they longed in the wilderness. &nbsp; Numbers 11:5 . Kitto l
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• Book Of Isaiah
  ...of the remaining menaces, particularly those which denounce the resort to Egypt for help, may best be referred to the period immediately before Sennacherib ...<p> &nbsp;Isaiah 30 , &nbsp;Isaiah 31 . They seek counsel of and trust in Egypt instead of in God. </p> <p> &nbsp;Isaiah 32 . Christ will reign in righteou
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• Canaanites
  ...ica, and others into Greece. [[Procopius]] says, they first retreated into Egypt, but advanced into Africa, where they built many cities, and spread themsel ...the Kassite dynasty about b.c. 1700, and which pushed the [[Hyksos]] into Egypt. Probably their coming was no later than this. </p> <p> In &nbsp;Judges 1:1
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• Caesarea
  <p> Because of the lack of natural harbor between [[Sidon]] and Egypt, a [[Sidonian]] king, Abdashtart established an anchorage in the 4th centur ...; &nbsp;Acts 25:13). </p> <p> It was on the high road between [[Tyre]] and Egypt; a little more than a day's journey from Joppa on the S. (&nbsp;Acts 10:24)
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• Isaiah
  ..., [[Damascus]] (&nbsp;Isaiah 17:1-14 ), [[Ethiopia]] (&nbsp;Isaiah 18:1 ), Egypt (&nbsp;Isaiah 19-20 ), and [[Tyre]] (&nbsp;Isaiah 23:1 ). The importance of ...a, Israel, and Assyria; so that they should trust wholly in Him and not in Egypt. His style is simple and sublime, intermediate between the lowly tenderness
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• Macedonia
  ...astern [[Mediterranean]] to the [[Indus]] River (including today's Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, and parts of [[Afghanistan]] and Pakistan). ...nder conquered the East. The dynasties which they established in Syria and Egypt were Macedonian, but in the subsequent Hellenization of the East they took
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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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• Camel
  ...d part of India; in Africa from the [[Mediterranean]] to Senegal, and from Egypt and Abyssinia to Algiers and Morocco. </p> <p> The dromedary ( '''''Beeker' ...under jaw the canine teeth are wide set, three in the upper and two in the lower jaw and there is a fissure in the upper lip. The dromedary of Arabian camel
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• River
  ...mes the <em> nahr </em> of the plain, before it reaches the sea, if in the lower reaches it is perennial. [[Bearing]] the name <em> nahr </em> in modern Pal ...uphrates "river" in the former part of the verse answer to "Assyria." and "Egypt" in the latter. </p> <p> '''(5)''' '''''Ρeleg''''' ''(Compare Greek '' '''
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• Zebulun
  ...milies through his three sons Sered, Elon, and Jahleel, who went down into Egypt with the other sons and grandsons of Jacob. The first and last of these nam ...ry fit for making glass, was in this tribe. When the tribe of Zebulun left Egypt, it had for its chief [[Eliab]] the son of Elon, and comprehended fifty-sev
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• Melon
  ...ws to great perfection, and is highly esteemed in Egypt, especially by the lower class of people, during the hot months. The juice is peculiarly cooling and ...Egyptians. The common melon ( '''''Cucumis Melo''''' ) also grows well in Egypt. The same heat (in God's gracious providence) which dries up the animal fra
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• Gypseys Gypsies Or Gipsies
  ...alled dukes, knights, etc., and, telling the story of their expulsion from Egypt and penal pilgrimage, sought to excite sympathy. At first they were well re
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• Missions
  ...hat embraced the faith from genuine '''''—''''' a thousand adopted it from lower motives. And while they had their reward, the Frankish bishops had theirs t
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• Monophysites
  ...inia, and other countries. The laborious efforts of Jacob were seconded in Egypt and the adjacent countries by Theodosius, bishop of Alexandria; and he beca ...y choosing as successor to Timothy a certain Theodosius, and the monks and lower classes choosing Gaianus, the leader of the Aphthiartodocetce, whose party
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• City Or Region Of Onias
  ...en Oniastempel," in the Monatsschr. fur Wiss. d. Judenth. 1:273 sq. (See [[Egypt]]). </p>
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• Paper-Reed
  ...cut up into square pages and bound like modern books. See Wilkinson. Anc. Egypt. 2:95, 96. (See [[Reed]]); (See [[Rush]]). </p>
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• Bull
  ...ornou; for none are figured on any known monument in either Upper or Lower Egypt. With regard, however, to wild oxen of the true Taurine genus, some may, at
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• Cæsarea
  <p> Because of the lack of natural harbor between [[Sidon]] and Egypt, a [[Sidonian]] king, Abdashtart established an anchorage in the 4th centur ...; &nbsp;Acts 25:13). </p> <p> It was on the high road between [[Tyre]] and Egypt; a little more than a day's journey from Joppa on the S. (&nbsp;Acts 10:24)
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• Ecclesiasticus
  ...t to the disorders which marked the transference of Jewish allegiance from Egypt to Syria rather than to the period of prosperous tranquility which was enjo ...itten in Hebrew, but is now extant only in a Greek translation executed in Egypt, professedly by the author's grandson. </p>
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• Amorites
  ...''Israel and the Amorites''' </p> <p> [[Prior]] to Israel’s migration from Egypt to Canaan, the Amorite king [[Sihon]] had conquered all the [[Ammonite]] an ...e Amorites, under Sihon their king, when the Israelites, in their way from Egypt, requested a passage through their country. This request, however, Sihon re
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• Fortification; Fort; Fortified (Fenced) Cities; Fortress
  ...false prophet, who urged alliances with foreign powers such as Assyria and Egypt, anal relied too much upon the material resources of the nation. The true p
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• Hor
  ...ear by its double top, which rises like a huge castellated building from a lower base, and is surmounted by a circular dome of the tomb of Aaron, a distinct ...building was restored by Es Shimani, son of [[Mohammed]] Calain, sultan of Egypt, by his father's orders, in the year 739 of the Hegira; square almost, 28 f
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• Magic; Magician
  ...ones"). [[Herodotus]] (ii. 33) says that there were persons of the kind in Egypt, and they are mentioned also by [[Euripides]] and Plato. </p> <p> <b> 8. Wi
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