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Egypt
...who 14th and 15th dynasties). says Rasetnub's era was 400 years before, i.e. 1700 B.C.; also on a lion at [[Bagdad]] (Dr. Birch). '''About B.C ...ests in the temple were the pastophori (Egyp. ‘openers,’ i.e. of shrines), and of the same rank as these were the choachytes

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Jerusalem
...ugh the Bezetha, but was obliged to retire from the N. wall of the temple, E. of and behind Antonia, back to Scopus, where he was utterly defeated in No ...tique , Paris, 1913ff.-( d ) [[Historical]] works : E. Schürer, History of the Jewish People (Eng. tr. of GJV).] , Edin

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Assyria And Babylonia
...esopotamia Syria, and Egypt, but with Bactria, and possibly China on the [[E.,]] and with EubÅ“a on the West. ( f ) New Baby

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Captivity
...ook captive His foes), "when He ascended on high led captivity captive," i.e. led in triumphal procession as captives for destruction those who once had ...o individuals ( Job 42:10): "The Lord turned the captivity of Job," i.e. he released him from the unusual sufferings and perplexities to which he h

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Apocrypha
...pha, Apocryphal.] Wisdom literature, both Palestinian and Alexandrian, e.g. the Palestinian teaching— ‘From a woman was the beginn ...st ; H. F. D. Sparks, ed., The Apocryphal Old Testament ; M. E. Stone, ed., Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period . 

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Israel
...ites. Our account of this (  1 Samuel 15:1-35 ) comes from the later (E [Note: Elohist.] ) source, and gives us, by way of explaining Saul’s late ...State of Israel ; M. Karlberg, JETS 31/3 (1988): 257-69; G. E. Ladd, The Last Things ; H. K. LaRondelle, The Israel of God i

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Babylon
...19-22 . Now vast mounds extend for miles. If Hillah (about 44 25' E 32 27' N ) be taken as a centre, the mounds extend northward about 3 miles. ...esenting the dragon and the re’Ã§m , to the Istar-gate at the S.E. corner. The whole was enclosed within an irregular triangle, formed by two

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Manetho
...Chabas, repeated mention is made of certain foreigners, called Apuruju, i.e. Hebrews, compelled by Rameses II to drag stones for the building of the ci

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Palestine
...ofF4/EhISEul2tgYKC8vNxqtU6ZMgUAwXK5vKWlZbAnBhq+ScRkMun1eujE3uoz/4gYO3bsu+++e+7cufPnz4tEovvvv7+wsDA1NTUtLY1Go4GUUV5eXlFRkd1uNxgM4E0zbty4M2fODH1kKIbhJfH+/ ...white, with the green suggestion of trees and grass, lying on the water’s e 

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Writing
...rticle referred to was not a book in the sense that we understand today (i.e. a collection of sheets bound together). It was most likely a scroll. The b ...was the colophon , or statement that a book was finished, e.g.   Psalms 72:20 . [[Similar]] editorial matter is found in &nb

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Book Of Isaiah
...m> Introduction to the Book of Isaiah . In these works, and in, e.g. , Driver’s Isaiah, his Life and Times , and his 

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Tyre
...desire her beauty," and Messiah shall become "the desire of all nations," e.g. Tyre ( Haggai 2:7). On the other hand Tyre is type of (See [[Antich ...atter feat they accomplished in three years, the voyagers sailing down the E. coast, and reaching the [[Pillars]] of Hercules after a feat of unheard-of

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Nineveh
...Asshuremid-ilin or Asshur-izzir-pal (Saracus or Sardanapalus), built the S.E. edifice at Nimrud. The palace walls were from five to fifteen feet thick, ...was ( Jonah 3:4 ) an "exceeding great city of three days' journey", i.e., probably in circuit. This would give a circumference of about 60 miles. A

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Antiochus
...al Artaxias, king of Armenia, in the N., and [[Arsaces]] of Parthid in the E., went forth with great fury, on the way took [[Arad]] in Judah, devastated <li> Antiochus IV., surnamed "Epiphanes" i.e., the Illustrious, succeeded his brother Seleucus (B.C. 175). His career an

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Book Of Numbers
...im at the Tent, which was pitched outside the camp ( Exodus 33:7-11 , E [Note: Elohist.] ). But now the presence of Jâ€³ [Note: Jahweh.] is pro ...(in spite of extraordinary circumstances) ( Numbers 27:1 ); E. They are to provide for “bonus” land beyond the initial promise (&nbsp

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Herod
...hew 16:6 we find "the leaven of Herod" is "the leaven of the Sadducees," i.e. disbelief of angel or spirit or resurrection. Luke ( Luke 9:7) says, ...> Literature.-The great authority for the lives of the Herods is Josephus. E. Schürer, GJV [Note: JV Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes (Schüre

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Cyrenius
...ut again the second clause is out of place. Valesius ([[Ad]] Euseb. [[''H. E'']] 1:5) would at once write Saturninus for Quirinus. All such changes of

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Nehemiah
...with warnings, "from all places (from whence) ye shall return unto us ''(I.E. From [[Whence]] Ye Can Come Out To Us)'' they will set upon you." L. De Di ...s formal expressions of joyous worship ( Nehemiah 8:13-18 ). E. God's way elicits confession ( Nehemiah 9:1-5 ). F. God's pe

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Galatia
...XBvBhaUR/ekMqNzeX5q0eD5arEIjE3JqbOnWqmSS5ubkkYd26dfnAgtENPg1EKg6vJJ6bm6sZB+E+jfv+/fv379/f11TuayebAeGqFUzAjA+RE5% ...ght afterwards have gone to this region. [[Eusebius]] ( HE [Note: E Historia Ecclesiastica (Eusebius, etc.).]iii. 4), [[Epiphanius]] ( Haer

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Darius
...pose on the provinces (Herodotus, 3:89). in four years it was completed, i.e. in the sixth year of Darius ( Ezra 6:15), in 516 B.C. In this same ye ...re [[Pelatiah]] and Jeshaiah; and there the pedigree of Zerubbabel ends, i.e. with the two grandsons. Then, "the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, th

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Canon Of The Old Testament
...hat he did know of a Palestinian limit to the third group. ( e ) [[Josephus]] . Josephus (a.d. 100), defending his earlie ...f Nehemiah), 4 containing hymns and directions for life (c. Apion, 1:8): i.e. the FIVE of [[Moses; Thirteen]] prophetical books, namely, '''(1

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Persia
...utlej]] ''(Before The First Contact Of The [[Assyrians]] With Aryan Tribes E. Of Mount Zagros, 880 B.C.)'' , down the Oxus, then S. of the Caspian Sea t ...] on the N., [[Armenia]] on the W., and Afghanistan and Beluchistan on the E., and is a country three times as large as France; lofty mountain ranges tr

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Jesus Christ
...Ã¦a and PerÃ¦a. Time: Tabernacles, a.d. 28, to Passover, a.d. 29. E. The Messianic crisis the last week, passion, resurrection, ascension. Sour ...t a few. Sometimes these are stated as abstract theological truth or fact (e.g., "All things are possible with God"  Mark 10:27 ) but most often

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Rome
...assed between the Forum proper and the Basilica Iulia, that it then went N.E. and ran along the east side of the Forum, turning southwards eventually an ...of the famous '''''Basilica''''' called after him (Caius, in Eusebius, H. E. ii. 25). All this is mere tradition. [[Real]] sites are the Colos

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Chronology Of The Biblical Period
...hn [[H.]] Hayes. Traditional dates are adapted from a system proposed by [[E.]] [[R.]] Thiele. The Intertestamental Period During the Intertest

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Babylonia
...th Sargon of Accad; Ur-Babbar p., contemporary with Naram-Sin of Accad; Ur-E p.; Lugal-bur p.; Basha-Kama p.; Ur-Mama p.; Ug-me p.; Ur-Bau p.; Gudea p.; ...show that the primitive inhabitants of the country were really Cushite, i.e. identical in race with the early inhabitants of Southern Arabia and of Eth

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Nebuchadnezzar
...rs and lords sought unto him," weary of anarchy after the "seven times," i.e. a complete sacred cycle of time, a week of years, had passed over him, and ...by constructing an artificial mountain; and accordingly the king caused on e to be made, four hundred feet square and over three hundred feet high. The

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Roman Empire
...ting subject of the Roman northern frontier the best account in English is E. G. Hardy, Studies in Roman History, 2nd ser., 1909, pp. 1-129: further det ...bly" at [[Ephesus]] ( Acts 19:35-39); "colonies" also, as Philippi, i.e. communities of Roman citizens, as it were a miniature Rome transplanted in

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Exodus
...JE [Note: Jewish Encyclopedia.] with D [Note: Deuteronomist.] , displaced E [Note: Elohist.] ’s Book of Judgments in favour of Deuteronomy, which he ...ping-places by no means indicates the number of days spent on the journey: e.g., it took fully a month to travel from Rameses to the wilderness of Sin (

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Jeroboam
...ict you: contrast  1 Kings 8:65), and Hamath, and restored the tribes E. of Jordan ( 1 Chronicles 5:17-22;  2 Kings 13:5). Assyria's depr ...g incense, when a prophet (Josephus, [[Ant]] . 8, 8, 5, calls him Jadon, i.e. probably Iddo; compare ''Ant.'' 8, 15, 4; Jerome, Quoest. Hebr. on  2

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Cyprus
...les. Its best ports (Larnaka and Limasol) are open roadsteads. A. E. Hillard. ...ut 40 broad for the most part, facing [[Phoenicia]] and [[Lebanon]] on the E., and [[Cilicia]] with the [[Taurus]] range on the N.; containing the mount

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Ezekiel
...of the people who felt they had perished ( Ezekiel 37:1-28 ) E. By defeating the ungodly forces of the nations under Gog of Magog ( E ...n. Again, the half of the holy portion extends 30 miles S. of Jerusalem, i.e., covering nearly the whole southern territory. Without great physical chan

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Shimei
...rents of Solomon, at the time of Adonjah's usurpation.  1 Kings 1:8. (B.C.1015). 4. Solomon's commissariat officer in Benjamin.  1 Kings [[Shimei]] ( ''Shĭm'E-Î'' ), ''Famous.'' The name of 14 or more Hebrews, of whom the two followi

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Babel
...u/duwfBu3379jiJ//AiN8uyZ8+ejY+Pd3Z2VlNT69Spk4uLy/3799evX6+mplZYWDhr1qylS5c+e/ZMqVQCAUZfw0OHDj18+BBDrImJiUwm2717N2huUlNT4VeAVxBaShBCHBwczMzMGIaBATd972G30 ...h 13:20-22). The "wild beasts of the islands" (rather "of the howlings," i.e. jackals) and "dragons" (serpents) abound; so that "neither the Arabian pit

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Isaiah
...entance]] brings reconciliation with God ( Isaiah 59:1-21 ). E. Light from God brings life ( Isaiah 60:1-62:12 ). F. [[Praye ...saiah occur in the latter portion as in the former, e.g. "to be called," i.e. to be; instead of synonyms the same words repeated in the parallel members

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Moses
...ed ( Numbers 12:3;  Numbers 27:16). To appreciate this meekness, e.g. under Miriam's provocation, and apparent insensibility where his own hon

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Sennacherib
...ng> SENNACHERIB (Assyr. [Note: Assyrian.] Sin-akhÃ§-erba, i.e. ‘Sin [the Moon-god] has increased the brothers’), son of Sargon, ...;Isaiah 37:25 should be rendered "dried up all the Nile-arms of Matsor," i.e., of Egypt, so called from the "Matsor" or great fortification across the i

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Tarsus
...caonia]] by the Taurus range of mountains, which is pierced from N.W. to S.E. by a glen along which flows the Tcbakut Su. This glen offers a natural roa ...joined the one from [[Antioch]] by the [[Syrian]] [[Gates]] about 50 miles E. of Tarsus, and the single road, after traversing the city, turned sharply

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Book Of Ezra
...sses His workers and expects to be praised. ( Ezra 7:27-28 ) E. God's work warrants good records. ( Ezra 8:1-14 ) F. God's w ...Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/e/ezra-book-of.html. 1897. </div> </li>

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Abraham
...w Christ's day and was glad ( John 8:56). The scene was [[Moriah]] (i.e. chosen by Jehovah); others suppose Moreh, three days' journey from Beershe ...ke 16:23)* [Note: The plural form is frequently used by the Greek Fathers, e.g. Chrys. Hom. XL in Gen.: τάντες οἱ δικαιοι … εὐχῆ

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Samaria
...p. 462f.; A. P. Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, new ed., 1887, pp. 240-246; E. Schürer, HJP[Note: JP History of the Jewish People (Eng. tr. of GJV).], 1 ...3, section 4). Bounded N. by the hills beginning at [[Carmel]] and running E. toward Jordan, forming the southern boundary of the plain [[Esdraelon]] (J

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Syria
...ings of Syria.) Abilene, so-called from its capital Abila, was a tetrarchy E. of Antilibanus, between Baalbek and Damascus. [[Lysanias]] was over it whe .... by the Mediterranean, on the N. by the Tauric range of mountains, on the E. by the middle Euphrates and the Hamâd or desert steppe, and on the S. by

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Macedonia
... Acts 17:2-12 ) was the recipient of the oldest Christian writing, i.e., the First Letter to the Thessalonians which Paul wrote from [[Corinth]] a ...‘a city belonging to the first of those four districts of Macedonia, i.e. the first which Paul touched on his journey.’ But the interpretatio

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Augustus
...t given by J. S. Reid in A [[Companion]] to Latin Studies (ed. J. E. Sandys, Cambr. 1910), 129ff. The theory of the Empire is best expounded in ..., who, after his adoption by Julius Caesar, took the name of Octavianus (i.e. Ex-Octavius), according to the Roman fashion; and was the first peacefully

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Antioch
...rong citadel on another spur of the mountains that surround the city. From E. to W. of Antioch he laid out a splendid corso with double colonnades, whic ...governors subsequently. [[Built]] where Lebanon running N. and [[Taurus]] E., meet at a bend of the river Orontes; partly on an island, partly on the l

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Haggai
... B. God will empower His chosen servant ( Haggai 2:23 ). E. [[Earl]] Joiner ...reproof, and lofty in contemplating the glorious future, [[Repetitions]] (e.g., "saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts"  Haggai 1:2;  Haggai 1:5;

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Pentateuch
...). Many particulars were impolitic in a mere human point of view: e.g. their peculiar food, ritual, and customs, excluding strangers and impedi ...ah and supposedly was written in the Southern [[Kingdom]] about 850 [[B.C. E]] stood for Elohim, a favorite Hebrew name for God in this document. It wa

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Money
...x of a half-shekel by presenting a PhÅ“nician tetra-drachm. This is ( e ) the ‘piece of money’ of v. 27, which RV [Note: Revised Version. ...Coinage of Palestine from the 2Century B.C. to the 3Century A.D. ; S. E. Loewenstamm, JBL 88 (1968): 78-80. 

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Hosea
...people will not allow Him to give them up ( Hosea 11:1-11 ). E. Covenant-making with alien powers is infidelity to God ( Hosea 11:12- .../p> The allusion to Shalmaneser's expedition against Israel as past, i.e. the first inroad against [[Hoshea]] whose reign began only four years befo

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Books Of Samuel
...of prophecy (  1 Samuel 9:7 ff.), and the sons of the prophets ( e.g .   1 Samuel 10:5 ff.); in the use of the teraphim (  1 S ...depends on brave, faithful associates ( 2 Samuel 23:8-39 ). E. The leader's foolish decisions bring punishment even on a repentant leader

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