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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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• Moses
  ...aron to send a series of plagues upon Egypt, resulting in the overthrow of Egypt and the release of Israel (&nbsp;Exodus 7:14-25; Exodus 8; Exodus 9; Exodus ...&nbsp; John 6:14; &nbsp; John 7:40 [&nbsp; Luke 7:39 ]), the magicians of Egypt (&nbsp; 2 Timothy 3:8 ), the plagues (&nbsp; Revelation 8:5; &nbsp; Revelat
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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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• 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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• Pathros
  ...et without giving to their fellow-countrymen at home any clear idea of the Upper Country. In &nbsp; [[Genesis]] 10:14 the <strong> [[Pathrusim]] </strong> a ...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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• Jerusalem
  ...y and temple were wholly burnt and destroyed, excepting the W. wall of the upper city and Herod's three great towers, which were left as memorials of the st ...hown in the 12th cent. E. of where this palace stood, in the heart of the ‘Upper City,’ while the present Zion Gate upon the S. was taken to be the iron g
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• House
  ...’ or ‘casement’ ( <em> ’arubbah </em> , see above). In the cold season the upper classes warmed their rooms by means of a <strong> brasier </strong> (&nbsp; ...bsp;1 Kings 6:30, where the wood was overlaid with gold), but, even on the upper floors, of beaten mud, sometimes of a sort of cement. In rich houses paveme
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• Dress
  ...nd the waist. On His feet were leather sandals (&nbsp; Matthew 3:11 ). His upper garment, as has been shown, was of the customary oblong shape probably of w ...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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• 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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• 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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• Galilee
  ...during the Roman War. Considerable quantities were sent to [[Tyre]] and to Egypt. Made from the olive trees, the oil was used principally for external appli ...is bolder and richer than that of southern Palestine. On the table land of upper Galilee lie the ruins of Kedesh Naphtali (&nbsp;Joshua 20:7). </p> <p> Boch
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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 ...-ho'ron.''' ''(House Of Caverns).'' The name of two towns or villages, an "upper" and a "nether," &nbsp;Joshua 16:3; &nbsp;Joshua 16:5; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 7
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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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• 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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• Mill
  ...not a piece of a mill stone, but the rider, the distinguishing name of the upper mill stone, which literally rides upon the other, and is a piece or divisio .... Allusion to one of these is made in &nbsp;Matthew 18:6. With the movable upper millstone of the hand-mill the woman of [[Thebez]] broke Abimelech's skull.
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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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• 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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• 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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• Philistines
  ...me that Philistia was traversed by vast [[Scythian]] horde on their way to Egypt. </p> <p> The Egyptian ascendancy was not as yet re-established, for we fin ...nes,’ has disappeared. </p> <p> When [[Cambyses]] made his expedition into Egypt (b.c. 525), Gaza opposed him (Polyb. xvi. 40). The [[Sidonian]] king Eshmun
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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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• 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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• The Dispersion
  ...ntinuously from the days of Jeremiah. Papyri prove the presence of Jews in Egypt, not only in the towns but in country districts from a comparatively early
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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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• 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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• 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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• Euphrates
  ...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 ...It was the N.E. boundary of the land promised to Abraham, as the river of Egypt was the S.W. &nbsp;Genesis 15:18 . It is called the great river, the river
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• Horse
  ...introduction of horses. </p> <p> The camel, one of Abram's possessions in Egypt, is not mentioned in Joseph's time nor on the Egyptian monuments. Their ear ...mon, having married a daughter of Pharaoh, procured a breed of horses from Egypt; and so greatly did he multiply them, that he had four hundred stables, for
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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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• 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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• 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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• Geology Of Palestine
  ...nd Jaffa. Its true position is uncertain. Prof. [[Hull]] assigns it to the Upper Eocene, but Dr. Blanckenhorn to a post-tertiary or diluvial origin. (7) <em ...nowhere visible, although it may be presumed to exist there also below the upper limestone. (See the accompanying ideal section, after Lartet, through Judea
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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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• 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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• Syria
  ...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 ...arkable of them was [[Antiochus]] IV (Epiphanes), who would have conquered Egypt but for the mediation of Rome (A.D. 168). Then he plundered the Jewish temp
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• Jordan
  ...th is 12 miles, of which the W. part is named "the plains of Jericho." The upper terrace immediately under the hills is covered with vegetation; under that ...ng, its surface being but 7 feet above sea-level. </p> <p> <strong> 4. The Upper Jordan </strong> is a convenient designation for that portion of the river
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• Idolatry
  ...hip attacked later on by Hosea. Even Isaiah can anticipate the erection in Egypt of a pillar (&nbsp; Isaiah 19:19 ) like those which [[Josiah]] in the next ...m of idolatry. Taking its rise in the plains of Chaldea, it spread through Egypt, Greece, Scythia, and even [[Mexico]] and Ceylon. Compare &nbsp;Deuteronomy
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• Aaron
  ...''(A Title Of The True God)'' , [[O]] Israel, which brought thee up out of Egypt," as also his proclamation, "Tomorrow is a feast to JEHOVAH," show that he ...the image or symbol of thy God, "which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." Moses, having hastened from the mount by the command of God, testified 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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• Joseph
  ...departed for Egypt, where Herod had no authority (&nbsp;Matthew 2:14). In Egypt they were to remain till the angel brought word to Joseph (&nbsp;Matthew 2: ...and Customs of the [[Ancient]] Egyptians </i> ; Erman, <i> Life in Ancient Egypt </i> . </p>
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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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• 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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• Rehoboam
  ...on the S. side of Jerusalem, apprehending most danger from the quarter of Egypt (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 11:1; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 11:12-13; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 1 ...David" (&nbsp;1 Kings 14:31 ). He was succeeded by his son Abijah. (See [[Egypt]] .) </p>
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• Bread
  ...e [[Israelites]] as the most general and effective symbol of their life in Egypt. In the initiation of the new covenant also the same humble article of food ...unleavened bread, as a memorial that at the time of their departure out of Egypt they wanted leisure to bake leavened bread; and, having left the country wi
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• Zedekiah
  ...n in the plains of Jericho. He was taken for judgment to [[Riblah]] at the upper end of Lebanon; there Nebuchadnezzar first killed his sons before his eyes, ...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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