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  • ...blood shedder:  Hosea 1:4, "I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu," though temporarily he was rewarded for his measure of outward obe .... It appears also that, in executing the divine indignation on the wicked house of Ahab, he was actuated more by the spirit of ambition and animosity than
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  • ...shbosheth king. David however "waxed stronger and stronger," while "Saul's house waxed weaker and weaker" (2 Samuel 2-3). After a skirmish, disastrous to Is ...ell him that though he may not build this house, Jahweh will establish the house of David ( <em> i.e. </em> in the sense of lineage) for ever (&nbsp; 2 Samu
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  • ...i, drove them out, and set on fire the Asmonaean palace, the high priest's house, and the archives repository, "the nerves of the city" (B.J., 2:17, section ...dence that they possessed any special building like a synagogue. A private house, such as that of Mary, the mother of John Mark, would have served their pur
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  • .../em> and I have sought thee …’ His reply, ‘I must be in <em> my Father’s house </em> ’ (&nbsp; Luke 2:48 ), shows that He had begun to feel, and expecte ...third time six days before the Passover, when Jesus was entertained in the house of Simon the [[Leper]] at Bethany, and she came in during the feast and ano
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  • ...om at least that date it is an independent witness of the integrity of the five books of Moses. This testimony may be much older for probably the Samaritan ...hemselves are anonymous. Most English Bibles carry the titles of the first five books as “the books of Moses.” These titles are not in the Hebrew manus
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  • ...a ‘solar myth.’ The name ‘Samson,’ and the existence of a ‘Beth-shemesh’ (‘house of the sun’) near his home, offer an obvious temptation to such a theory, ...men on the roof beheld while Samson made sport. Samson by pulling down the house slew at his death more than in his life. Type of Christ (&nbsp;Colossians 2
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  • ...d David in [[Hebron]] after Saul's death, with 22 captains of his father's house (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 12:28). Abiathar had the first place, with the ephod, [
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  • ...rk of the covenant, whence God gave His answers in a clear voice, were the five things of the old temple wanting in the second temple. </p> <p> [[Heated]] ...Old Testament is formed from the verb for slaughter and means literally, “slaughter place.” Altars were used primarily as places of sacrifice, especially ani
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  • ...Solomon ''(Its Five [[Divisions]] Probably Are Referred To In The [[Odd]] Five)'' , and Psalm 72 and Psalm 127. (See PROVERBS.) </p> <p> He knew botany, f ...nt; the Temple was seven years in building (&nbsp; 1 Kings 6:38 ); his own house thirteen (&nbsp; 1 Kings 7:1 ); there was also the palace for his wife (&nb
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  • ...n]] (&nbsp;1 Samuel 31:9-10; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 10:10); the tidings of the slaughter of their national enemy they sent far and near to their idols and to the pe ...ives help from the priests at Nob. So enraged was Saul that he ordered the slaughter of the entire priesthood there (chs. 20 21). Saul had David all but capture
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  • ...assured him that He had heard his prayer, and that He had [[Hallowed]] the house and would watch over it perpetually. He also [[Promised]] the king to perpe
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  • ...d in the mouth of the prophet Nathan, of the sentiment of reverence to the House of David, which took its rise in the latter part of the 8th century. Budde ...when under a Divinely supported king (doubtless a member of the Hasmonæan house) war was to cease and God was to bless the righteous and punish the wicked.
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  • ...ero]] added several cities of Galilee and Persea to his kingdom (A.D. 55). Five years later Paul pleaded before him, who naturally consulted him on a quest ...which held out for six months, when it was carried by assault, and a vast slaughter was made of the inhabitants, till the intercession and bribes of Herod put
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  • ...ode, in its early form, recognized the local sanctuaries, and required the slaughter of animals suitable for sacrifice to take place before the Lord, <em> i.e < ...ple (&nbsp;Leviticus 27:1-13 ). </p> <p> B. Offer proper vows related to a house (&nbsp;Leviticus 27:14-15 ). </p> <p> C. Offer proper vows related to field
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  • ...went up "according to their armies," "harnessed," literally, "arranged in five divisions," van, center, two wings, and rearguard (Ewald): &nbsp;Exodus 6:2 ...Chronicles 27:1-34. Under [[Jehoshaphat]] this was altered, and there were five unequal corps, under as many commanders. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 17:14-19. The c
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  • ...daries are given the same as under Moses) no adequate room is left for the five tribes whose inheritance is beyond the holy portion (&nbsp;Ezekiel 47:19; & ...his speech which pleased the ears of the captives, and brought them to his house for counsel (&nbsp; Ezekiel 8:1 , &nbsp; Ezekiel 14:1 , &nbsp; Ezekiel 20:1
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  • ...Josephus' time to mark the spot. It stood within the enclosure, "Abraham's house." Isaac's birth, beyond nature, the type of Him whose name is [[Wonderful]] ...t this point there is a blank in the patriarch's history of perhaps twenty-five years. These years of peace and happiness were spent at Beer-sheba. The nex
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  • ...was hurried out, and slain at the entering of the horse gate by the king's house. Mattan, Baal's priest, was the only other person slain. Her usurpation las ...young prince. Athaliah, probably engaged in her idolatrous worship in the house of Baal, heard the shouts of the people, rushed into the temple, and saw th
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  • ...strument. Such is its form at the present day in the east; but it has only five strings in its modern shape, &nbsp;2 Samuel 6:5; &nbsp;1 Kings 10:12 . Ther ...ious passion for music by his example. Solomon's songs were a thousand and five (&nbsp;1 Kings 4:32). In the procession accompanying the ark to Zion, the L
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  • ...then the second priest; then the 24 "governors of the sanctuary and of the house of God" (&nbsp;Jeremiah 20:1; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 24:5). </p> <p> '''5.''' & ...the house of Aaron," who came to David to Hebron with other members of the house of Levi. In &nbsp;1 Chronicles 27:34 there is named among David's counselor
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  • ...most important underlying principles in common. It falls conveniently into five divisions-Atonement and Law; [[Atonement]] and Righteousness; Atonement and ...om their sins’ (&nbsp; Matthew 1:21 ); He is the promised ‘Saviour’ of the house of David (&nbsp; Luke 1:31-33; &nbsp; Luke 2:11 ); the [[Baptist]] announce
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  • ...tized, on their way to Jerusalem; suggested the image the Lamb led to the "slaughter," not merely the shearing (&nbsp;Isaiah 53:7). The Passover was near (&nbsp ...the Israelite law were available only for unintentional sins. None of the five categories of sacrifice set out a procedure to deal with deliberate sin, ev
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  • ...down, namely, to keep God's commandments heartily as David did, Jeroboam's house should be taken away "as dung"; but that in reward for the good there was f ...1 Chronicles 11:36 . </p> <p> 5. Levite, who was over the treasures of the house of God in the time of David. &nbsp;1 Chronicles 26:20 . </p> <p> 6. One who
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  • ...4; &nbsp;Matthew 18:22). </p> <p> As ''3 1/2'' is related to ''7'' , so '''five''' is related to ''10'' ; ''5'' is "the penal number" (&nbsp;Exodus 22:1; & ...d from astral worship of the seven heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, and the five planets known to the ancients. It is also connected with the seven-day week
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  • ...ff's testimony it appears that, in the sixteenth century, "there was not a house to be seen." And now "the eye wanders over a barren desert, in which the ru ...he times of the [[Gentiles]] will end when the power returns to Judah, the house of David, in the person of the Lord Jesus. </p> <p> The destruction of Baby
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  • ...xperience, instructs then how it is necessary to comport themselves in the house of God. From their internal structure and contents it can be easily seen th ...efore, again to the Gentiles, and for two years, he dwelt in his own hired house. These are the last words of the Acts. But St. Paul's career is not abruptl
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  • ...to the institutions of the Philistines our information is very scanty, The five chief cities had, as early as the days of Joshua, constituted themselves in ...s time Philistine power was concentrated in the hands of the rulers of the five cities of Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath. The rulers of these citi
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  • ...be set upon a candlestick if it was to give light to all that were in the house; and He reached the Gentiles most effectually by concentrating His ministry ...Rock salt abounds. The Khasm Usdum, a mound at the S. of the Dead Sea, is five miles and a half long by two and a half broad, and several hundred feet hig
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  • ..., chiefly by means of the infernal courts of inquisition. </p> <p> A worst slaughter, if possible, was made among the natives of Spanish America, where fifteen ...forced; and men must be made willing, not by stripes, but by arguments. [[Slaughter]] and piety are quite opposite to each other; nor can truth consist with vi
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  • ...rifices, it will be more convenient to follow, as before, the order of the five distinct kinds as given in the systematic manual, &nbsp;Leviticus 1:1-17; & ...es the most detailed description of Israel's sacrificial system, including five types of sacrifices. The sacrifices and offerings that were brought by the
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  • ...Gibeonites, determined to take advantage of the helplessness of the royal house to destroy the only '''''‘''''' representative that was left, excepting t ...e was war (&nbsp;2 Samuel 2:12 ). The house of David prevailed against the house of Saul (&nbsp;2 Samuel 3:1 ), but the war did not come to a close until Ab
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  • ...at Haman has said is to be done to Mordecai. Haman returns in grief to his house. While taking counsel there with his friends, the king’s chamberlains com ...ue an edict to all his subjects that every man should bear rule in his own house (1:22)? We reply that, as the edicts of Oriental despots are not all models
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  • ...; astronomy added Abram was graciously received. Pharaohs: Amenemha I, the five [[Epact]] days to the old 360. The capital Osirtasin I, Amenemha II, shifte ...tly contemporary with the 11th Dyn., which eventually suppressed the rival house. The monuments of the 11th Dyn. are almost confined to the neighbourhood of
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  • ...Chronicles 23:24-32), "to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Jehovah," etc., "and to stand every morning to thank and praise Jehovah, ...e Levites should not begin in the service of the tabernacle till they were five-and-twenty years of age, &nbsp;Numbers 8:24-26; or, as he says elsewhere, f
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  • ...rone of judging at the gate of the city Lachisa; I give permission for its slaughter." The captives are stripped of their armor, ornaments, and much of their cl ...lential climates may be, especially when commissioned by the Lord. And the slaughter of such an army in one night carried with it the fullest and most decided t
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  • ...ccordingly David gave up to them the two sons of [[Rizpah]] (q.v.) and the five sons of Michal, and these the Gibeonites took and hanged or crucified "in t ...sraelites. Honoring this covenant, Joshua led Israel against the armies of five kings who had attacked Gibeon. During these victories the Lord caused the s
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  • ...l purification before his midday meal as when he brought into the tanner’s house the defilement of contact with so many lawless and profane people. To his J ...ited for a meal to be prepared, he prayed on the flat roof of the tanner's house. In a trance Peter saw what seemed to be “a great sheet knit at the four
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  • ...ifteen hundred French under General Kleber sustained the assault of twenty-five thousand Turks for half a day, and were succored by Napoleon. </p> ...his mother [[Jezebel]] slain (ch. 9), as well as all that remained of the house of Ahab (ch. 10). This is the last we hear of Jezreel, which thereafter see
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  • ...nd understood in the second. Solomon bound him on pain of death to build a house, and stay at Jerusalem, and not cross the [[Kedron]] which separated him fr .... after 1706). </p> <p> 2. Shimei, the son of Gera, a [[Benjamite]] of the house of Saul, who lived at Bahurim. (B.C. 1023). When David and his suite were s
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  • ...f the six is expressly named as ‘Aryan,’ it seems to follow that the other five did not belong to the conquering race; and the Magi would accordingly be an ...dreams), had returned a different way, before Herod's cruel decree for the slaughter of the infants took effect at Bethlehem. Matthew, dwelling on Christ's king
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  • ...he Lord against Jehoram. </p> <p> They carried away his substance from his house, his sons, and wives, so that there was never a son left him save [[Jehoaha ...romise which was immediately fulfilled. The allies pursued them with great slaughter into their own land, which they utterly ravaged and destroyed most of its c
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  • ...ry that redemption should prove universal, and God all in all, not through slaughter of His enemies (‘Order reigns in Warsaw’), still less through chaining ...es); Hanson, [[Manna]] (a book of daily worship); Quimby, [[Heaven]] ''Our House'' (a comfort to all who mourn); Thayer, Over the River (a book of consolati
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  • ...mob fell upon them, and murdered a great many of them. About one thousand five hundred of them were burned in the palace in the city of York, which they t ...mob fell upon them, and murdered a great many of them. About one thousand five hundred of them were burnt in the palace in the city of York, which they se
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  • ...ed by the Jews among the Kethubim (hagiographa), in the portion called the five volumes, Megilloth. [[Maimonides]] says that in Messiah's days the prophets ...Haman. The day that had been chosen by the casting of lots (purim) for the slaughter of the Jews now became the day when the Jews took revenge on their enemies.
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  • ...nacles or Ingathering) </i> . The Feast of Booths took place on Tishri 15, five days after the Day of Atonement, in what is now mid-October. The festival i
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  • ...all a place as Joppa; so that the tradition is confirmed that here was the house of Simon with whom Peter lodged when he received the call of Cornelius. </p ...34 ). From &nbsp; Genesis 30:20 (E [Note: Elohist.] ) we learn that he had five full brothers, but we are not told how many other sisters or half-sisters h
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  • ...re of the Old Testament </i> ; Hastings, <i> Dictionary of the Bible </i> (five volumes), article "Zephaniah, Book of"; <i> Encyclopedia Biblica </i> , art ...b, Ammon, are threatened with perpetual destruction, Ethiopia with a great slaughter, and Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, with desolation (&nbsp;Isaiah 38:8-15
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  • ...owing: the visit of the eastern magi; our Saviour's flight into Egypt; the slaughter of the infants at Bethlehem; the parable of the ten virgins; the dream of P ...in &nbsp;Acts 1:13. Probably he became a preacher to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and for the most part confined his labours to the land of Palesti
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  • ...er they saw the ‘star’ in front of them all the way, till they came to the house where the infant Jesus was found. (This appears to be the only sense in whi ...eavenly bodies. Yet there is one feature that they have in common with the five planets: all move among the stars within the band of the zodiac; each of th
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  • ...ew peace to themselves, and the respect of the people, than by a wholesale slaughter of the Reformer and his friends. The solicitations of the Dominicans at the
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  • ...tealing the ark of the covenant, the [[Philistines]] were advised to send “five golden mice” to the Israelites when they returned the ark to them (&nbsp; ...;Hosea 4:16 ); the lamb for gentleness, particularly when it is led to the slaughter (&nbsp;Isaiah 53:7; &nbsp;Jeremiah 11:19; &nbsp;Acts 8:32 ); the deer for s
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  • ...<em> a </em> ) &nbsp; Isaiah 10:1-9 , description of the new prince of the house of [[Jesse]] (David), and of the ideal conditions that will exist under his ...urns from the judgements of &nbsp;Isaiah 34 with garments stained with the slaughter of His enemies; followed by the intercessions of the Spirit of prophecy. </
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  • ...yed him into the untruth. </p> <p> His wife was not taken into Abimelech's house, as Sarah had been. Abimelech discovering the real state of the case reprov ...we turn our attention to the conduct of Isaac, the victim destined for the slaughter, we behold an example of faith and of dutiful obedience equally conspicuous
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  • ...health established at Venice during a fatal plague that visited Italy for five years; but they were not generally used until 1665. It is to these great me ...tbreaks that were not improbably bubonic plague, the first recorded is the slaughter of the firstborn in Egypt - the 10th plague. We have too little information
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  • ...trouble was dynastic even more than national, directed against the Davidic house rather than against Judah as a whole. Nor is there any reason for identifyi ...and the work of the ‘wondrous child,’ who will, in fact, be a scion of the house of David (&nbsp; 2 Samuel 9:7 , &nbsp; 2 Samuel 11:1 ). Strong support is g
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  • ...d the same figure was employed to denote the destruction that overtook the house of Esau: "Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his win ...2. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars, or forty-five shillings sterling. 3. A constellation in the northern hemisphere, having i
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  • ...ef>{{cite book|last=Scharfstein|first=Sol|title=Torah and commentary : the five books of Moses : translation, rabbinic and contemporary commentary|year=200 ...k at Sodom to his recalling the [[fire bombing of Dresden]].<ref>Slaughter House 5</ref> [[Monash University]]'s student newspaper, published by the Monash
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  • ...ing against bird and beast of prey the hung up corpses of her two sons and five kinsmen on the sacred hill of Gibeah, with which Saul had been so closely c ...Rizpah thereupon took her place on the rock of [[Gibeah]] (q.v.), and for five months watched the suspended bodies of her children, to prevent them from b
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  • ...bsp; 7:17 &nbsp; 8:4 &nbsp; 25:1 &nbsp; 28:3 . Dr. Robinson suggests Soba, five miles west of Jerusalem, as its possible site. The resemblance of its name ...nd others (&nbsp;Joshua 18:25 ). It is to be identified with modern er-Ram five miles north of Jerusalem. In ancient times this location placed the city be
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  • ...herib, B.C. 719; and in the year B.C. 714, he was put to flight with great slaughter by the [[Ethiopians]] and Egyptians. In the year B.C. 711 the [[Medes]] rev ...and the side views of an object. Animals, therefore, were represented with five legs; and sometimes two horses had but two forelegs. The later sculptures a
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  • ...igion]] of the Parsees (Bombay, 1862, 8vo), especially essay 4; Rawlinson, Five Great Monarchies, 3:93-136; 4:328-347; Bunsen, God in History, bk. 3, ch. 6
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  • ...inium and Verulamium (St. Albans) were captured by the insurgents. A great slaughter of the Romans and their allies was followed by the victory of [[Paulinus]] ...o inherited evil qualities from his father and mother, which for the first five years of his reign, when he was a mere youth, were kept in check by his two
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  • ...ine-press of Zeeb (&nbsp;Judges 7:25; comp. &nbsp;Isaiah 10:26, where the "slaughter of Midian at the rock Oreb" is referred to). It is added, in the same verse
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  • ...t stands in the palace of Mahomet, though a branch of it will reach to the house of every true believer; that it will be laden with pomegranates, grapes, da ...ammed added four fundamental points, of religious practice; namely, prayer five times a day, fasting, alms-giving, and the pilgrimage to Mecca. Under the f
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  • ...also Shimei, son of [[Gera]] of [[Bahurim]] (&nbsp;2 Samuel 17:5), "of the house of Saul." The nonappearance of Becher in &nbsp;1 Chronicles 8:1 and &nbsp;N ...(&nbsp;2 Samuel 16:5), since he is said to be "a man of the family of the house of Saul." But if so, Gera must be a different person from the Gera of &nbsp
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  • ...hem in harassing and plundering the kingdom of Jehoiakim. </p> <p> Four or five years later, in the first year of [[Zedekiah]] (&nbsp;Jeremiah 27:1), these
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  • ...ity of the Samaritans enter ye not, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." So, again, in his final address to them on Mount Olivet, "Ye sh
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  • ...reproached them with their wicked murder of "a righteous person in his own house upon his bed," and commanded his young men to slay them, and to hang up ove ...s father and his elder brothers. Apparently he did not begin to reign till five years after, and then reigned two years, over all the tribes except Judah,
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  • ...n 9:1 ‘the pit of the abyss’ (see Abyss) is regarded as the special prison-house of the devil and his attendant evil spirits. This conception is probably de ...s''''' is described as having seven gates," the house of the departed, the house from within which is no exit, the road the course of which never returns, t
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  • ...t was before [[Jehovah]] who chose me before thy father and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of Jehovah, Israel; therefore will I p ...;2 Samuel 6:20-23. Her name appears, &nbsp;2 Samuel 21:8, as the mother of five of the grandchildren of Saul. </p>
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  • ...hite soul is made.And now, I doubt not, the [[Eternal]] Dove,A black-faced house will love. </blockquote>
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  • ..., the Quintessence. These five cosmic elements were also symbolized by the five mathematical bodies. The cube was the earth; the pyramid, fire; the octahed
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  • ...slain; and the air was infected by the number of dead bodies. Six thousand five hundred persons are stated to have perished in this naval engagement, and i ...no less remarkable that of his entire thirty-three great miracles, twenty-five were wrought in this province. His first miracle was wrought at the wedding
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  • ...for the first principles of morality. So infamous was the grove of Daphne, five miles out of the city, filled with shrines to Apollo, Venus, Isis, etc., an ...> In 1268, Antioch was taken by Bibars, or Bondocdar, sultan of Egypt. The slaughter of seventeen thousand, and the captivity of one hundred thousand of its inh
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  • ...] Maccabæus defeated the [[Syrian]] general [[Seron]] ( 1Ma 3:13-24 ) and five years afterwards [[Nicanor]] (&nbsp; 1 Chronicles 7:39-40 ); more than 200 <p> '''Beth-ho'ron.''' ''(House Of Caverns).'' The name of two towns or villages, an "upper" and a "nether,
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  • ...D ying House, 105-37 bc <p> With John Hyrcanus the glory of the Maccabean house passed away. What remains is only the sad tale of outward and inward decay.
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  • ...ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To break friendship; t ...riendship as, brothers divide. 3. To vote by the division of a legislative house into two parts. <p> The emperors sat, voted and divided with their equals.
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  • ...&nbsp;2 Samuel 21:8), as the bringer-up, or more accurately the mother, of five of the grandchildren of Saul who were sacrificed to Jehovah by the [[Gibeon
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  • ...a close veil, leaving only the eyes free, when going out, and even in the house not to show themselves unveiled except to their nearest relatives. Thus wom
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  • ...he people quails, but His anger was kindled and He smote them with a great slaughter. </p> <p> &nbsp;Numbers 12 : Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, the meek ...ooks of Moses’ (or Pentateuch) originally were one book, the division into five volumes being purely for convenience. Numbers has greater significance once
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  • ...&nbsp;Leviticus 26:42), in consequence of the colonists worshipping their five deities respectively, constrained them through fear to learn from an import ..., the capital city of the kingdom of the ten tribes that revolted from the house of David. It was built by Omri, king of Israel, who began to reign A.M. 307
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  • ..., in which each verse consists of two parallel members, each member having five words divided into three and then two. The best example of this is to be fo
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  • ...no more (&nbsp;Job 14:12 ). The tomb is not an "eternal home" but a "dark house" (&nbsp;Ecclesiastes 12:5 ). </p> <p> A grave is also a symbol of hope, how ...n the desert (&nbsp;1 Kings 2:34 ); [[Manasseh]] “in the garden of his own house” (&nbsp;2 Kings 21:18 ); and Jesus in the garden tomb of [[Joseph]] of [[
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  • ...k on this subject, Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, in a.d. 77 or 78. This consisted of five books, and included the three kingdoms. He also wrote on poisons and antido ...Talmudic abstract on osteology in the Mishna, Oholoth, 1:8) from the daily slaughter of the animal sacrifices. On the subject generally, see Borner, Diss. de st
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  • ...days of Hezekiah. &nbsp;1 Chronicles 4:42. </p> <p> 3. Head of a Benjamite house, of the sons of Bela. &nbsp;1 Chronicles 7:7. (B.C. 1706). </p> <p> 4. A mu ...eir, and smote the remnant of the Amalekites who had survived the previous slaughter of Saul and David, and: took possession of their country, and dwelt there "
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  • ...se. For dancing in companies, the flat roof, or any level space beside the house, was resorted to. In the cities and in the houses of the rich, the large re ...<p> The Greek terms for dance mean “row” or “ring.” The two terms are used five times in the New Testament (&nbsp;Matthew 11:17; &nbsp;Matthew 14:6; &nbsp;
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  • ...tives. <p> They never doubted the commons but heard all stuck in the lords house. </p> 10. To be embarrassed or puzzled. <p> They will stick long at part of
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  • ...only, ed. Stenhagen, Upsal. 1705, 8vo); [[Van]] Hoeke, Explicatio [includ. five other minor proph.] (Ludg. Bat. 1709, 4to; also in Germ., Frkf. and Lpz. 17
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  • ...day for the performance of this rite, and generally wait till the child is five or six years of age. </p> <p> CIRCUMCISION, <em> [[Covenant]] of. </em> Tha ...d also the seal of the righteousness of his faith. Every male in Abraham's house was to be circumcised, and afterwards every male of his seed on the eighth
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  • ...avid adds, "I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house." </p> ...vid's being aided by Ahimelech, and who afterwards slew the latter and his house — 85 priests. &nbsp;1 Samuel 21:7; &nbsp;1 Samuel 22:9-22; &nbsp;Psalm 52
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  • ...g, a fourth part of the year, or three months. Tuition and board at twenty five dollars the quarter. This is a moderate quarter bill. 17. The quarter of a
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  • ...st began on the fifteenth day of [[Tishri]] (the seventh month), which was five days after the day of atonement. It lasted for seven days (&nbsp;Leviticus ...Fast of Esther, and the feast still holds the name of Purim. </p> <p> The slaughter of [[Holofernes]] by the hand of Judith, the consequent defeat of the Assyr
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  • ...:30). The Rama, &nbsp;Nehemiah 11:33, was further W. </p> <p> '''2.''' The house of Elkanah, Samuel's father (&nbsp;1 Samuel 1:19; &nbsp;1 Samuel 2:11). Sam ...is is seized by the evangelist and turned into a touching reference to the slaughter of the innocents at Bethlehem, near to which was (and is) the sepulchre of
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  • ...itate the soul's egress from it. </p> <p> In North [[America]] some tribes slaughter their captives to feed with their blood such souls in suspense. The [[Negro
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