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• Shechem
  ...rom the Samaritans; the depth of the well; the oriental allusion contained in the expression, living water;' the history of the well, and the customs the ...26:31. </p> <p> 4. A Gileadite, son of Shemida, the younger brother of '''Shechem, 3''' . &nbsp;1 Chronicles 7:19. </p>
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• Sychar
  ...bl. </i> iv. 4828 f.; Robinson, <i> BRP </i> [Note: RP Biblical Researches in Palestine.] iii. 133; Stanley, <i> SP </i> [Note: P [[Sinai]] and Palestine ...echem broadens into the great plain; it is 2,000 yards E. of Nablus ( '''''Shechem''''' ), which is hidden from it. The tomb of Joseph is a third of a mile no
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• Ebal
  ...of Israel's disobedience and consequent chastisement. The Samaritans' aim in their reading was to justify their erection of the temple on Gerizim. The c ...ts or tribes, went up to the top of the mountains, but the heads only, who in their persons might represent all the tribes. </p>
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• Gerizim
  ...Wendt, <i> Teaching of Jesus </i> , i. 320; artt. ‘Gerizim’ and ‘Shechem’ in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible; Commentaries. </p> <p> Andrew N. Bogle. ...ur Lord alludes: "Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem (exclusively) worship the Father" (&nbsp
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• Dinah
  ...s vow to make an altar at [[Bethel]] to God, who had appeared to him there in the day of his distress when fleeing from Esau. So his family gave up their ...aanites]] resulted immediately in the decimation of the tribe, and finally in the absorption of their remnants into the neighbouring tribes. The Dinah cl
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• Palestine
  ...the east, the [[Lebanon]] [[Range]] in the north and the [[Sinai]] Desert in the south. </p> <p> <img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgA ...e opaqueness, in sea and shore alike. The dry atmosphere showed everything in sharpest outline, clear-cut and broken-edged. There was no shading or varie
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• Samaria
  ...al Review, iv. [1911] 136 ff.; S. R. Driver, ‘The Discoveries at Samaria,’ in PEFSt[Note: EFSt [[Palestine]] Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement.]xliii. ...m in the 17th century. (See them in Eichhorn's Repertorium, 13) At Nablus (Shechem, or Sychar) the Samaritans have a settlement of 200 persons still, observin
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• Shalem
  ...the position required, three miles E. of Nablas (Shechem), i.e. between [[Shechem]] and the [[Jordan]] valley where at [[Succoth]] Jacob was just before (&nb ...rwise]] we must suppose Shalem to be a small town (in the neighbourhood of Shechem), which has been identified with a village called <em> Salim </em> . </p> <
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• Zebul
  ...h]] defeated the latter, [[Zebul]] thrust out Gaal and his brethren from [[Shechem]] (&nbsp;Judges 9:28; &nbsp;Judges 9:30; &nbsp;Judges 9:36; &nbsp;Judges 9: ...ho was left by him as governor of Shechem. He cleverly assisted his master in suppressing the revolt of <strong> Gaal </strong> (&nbsp; Judges 9:26-41 ).
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• Jeroboam
  ...ll Amos' words," implies a critical state of the country, which eventuated in actual anarchy for some time after Jeroboam's death. </p> ...eshold, he called her by name, told her that her son should die, and then, in appalling terms, denounced the impending ruin of Jeroboam's whole family, w
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• Israel
  ...lley, and invaded the East-Jordanic country as far as Mahanaim. Many towns in Judah were captured also. (Cf. Breasted’s <em> Hist. of Egypt </em> , 530 ..., <i> Israel in the [[Apostolic]] Church </i> ; J. F. Walvoord, <i> Israel in Prophecy </i> ; M. J. Wyngaarden, <i> The Future of the Kingdom </i> . </p>
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• Sacrifice
  ...ord, the human forerunners of Christ in sacrificial obedience, have failed in emphasis (cf. G. A. Smith, Modern [[Criticism]] and the [[Preaching]] of th ...omily]] of Salvation truly says "reason is satisfied by God's great wisdom in this mystery of our redemption, who hath so tempered His justice and mercy
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• Rehoboam
  ...tically represented. Rehoboam reigned for 17 years; his acts were recorded in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of [[Iddo]] the seer concerning genea ...his age, Rehoboam "slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David" (&nbsp;1 Kings 14:31 ). He was succeeded by his son Abij
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• Gibeah
  ...now that the Philistines fled, flocked to him from all their hiding places in Mount Ephraim. </p> ...the city flourished once more after the destruction of Jerusalem and again in the Maccabean age. </p> <p> Gibeah is located at tell el-Ful on a high ridg
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• Ophrah
  ...e the name (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 5:24), migrating there with [[Abiezer]] and Shechem (&nbsp;Numbers 26:30; &nbsp;Joshua 17:2). </p> <p> '''3.''' &nbsp;1 Chronic ...The [[Palestine]] Memoirs suggest as its site the village of Ferata, near Shechem. </p>
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• Abraham
  ...s grace declared Abraham righteous, so he declares righteous all who trust in him (&nbsp;Genesis 15:6; &nbsp;Romans 4:11). </p> <p> ''' <span ''' </p> ...the faithful," who left home and all at the call of God, to be a sojourner in tents, he typifies Him who at the Father's call left His own heaven to be a
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• Samaritan
  ...of Samaria. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' a.) Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine. </p> ...ctures on the Jewish Church, Append. 3, and still more minutely in Sermons in the East, Append. 2. For older monographs on the Samaritans, see Volbeding,
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• Marriage
  ...efore him as the ideal of his own life. How far that ideal can be embodied in legislation and applied to the community as a whole must depend upon social ...rry only believers. Whenever God directly brought a man and woman together in marriage, both were believers. Although pagan customs encouraged marriage w
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• Testaments Of The Twelve Patriarchs
  ...and weeping ( <i> Test. Sim </i> . ii. 13) and two years fasting (iii. 4; in Judah’s case abstinence from flesh and wine and all enjoyment till old ag
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• Samaritans Samaria
  ...s the kingdom of Judah. The northerners established their capital first at Shechem, then at Tirzah, but when [[Omri]] came to the throne he built a new capita ...tc., in <i> Porta Linguarum Orientalium </i> series; Rosenberg, ‘Lehrbuch’ in Hartleben’s <i> Bibliothek der Sprachenkunde </i> (a compilation, but goo
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• Salmon
  .... John’s Gospel, iii., English translation 1880, where, against his former view, he identifies Salome with ‘his mother’s sister’). </p> <p> H. W. Ful ...] on fire. &nbsp;Judges 9:48. Its exact position is not known. Referred to in &nbsp;Psalms 68:14. </p> <p> 3. The father of Boar. </p>
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• Zalmon
  ...h [[Abimelech]] and his party brought boughs and "put them to the hold" of Shechem, "and set the hold on fire" (&nbsp;Judges 9:48 ). Probably the southern pea ...ryphon]] in b.c. 143, when he attempted to relieve the [[Syrian]] garrison in [[Jerusalem]] and was prevented by a heavy fall of snow ( 1Ma 13:22 ). <str
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• Simeon
  ..."For I perceive thou art in the gall," etc. (&nbsp;Hebrews 12:15). Simeon in his prayer, "pray that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon ...ant Jesus in his arms and blessed Him, on the occasion of the presentation in the [[Temple]] (&nbsp; Luke 2:25 ff.). The notion that this Simeon is to be
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• Circumcision
  ...formed to many of them, when no sacrifice of principle was understood; for in order to gain the Jews, he became "as a Jew." See [[Abraham]] , and See [[B ...ical [[Commentary]] </i> , 1902); also E. v. Dobschütz, <i> Christian Life in the Primitive Church </i> , Eng. translation, 1904; K. Lake, <i> The Earlie
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• City
  ...mers had their fields outside the city and their homes inside. They worked in the fields during the day, but returned to the city before nightfall, when ...test of the [[Divine]] power of the religion of Jesus in our day will lie in its capability of giving to the city rational meaning, of transmuting the b
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• Cities Of Refuge
  ...sylum served to limit the rights of the avenger of blood, perhaps because “in hot anger” he might not be able to distinguish between murder and uninten ...hrist to us, &nbsp;1 Corinthians 1:9), now El-Khalil. Bezer, perhaps Bozor in the Book of [[Maccabees]] ''("Fortress," So Is Jesus, '' &nbsp;Isaiah 32:2
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• Salt
  ...ion, however understood, and worse applied, of the offering made with salt in the Scripture? </p> ...its complete dedication to J″ [Note: Jahweh.] (see the parallels adduced in <em> EBi </em> <em> [Note: Encyclopædia Biblica.] </em> iv. col. 4249 f.
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• Moses
  ...through Moses and Aaron to send a series of plagues upon Egypt, resulting in the overthrow of Egypt and the release of Israel (&nbsp;Exodus 7:14-25; Exo ...his whole career appeared to them to afford parallels to spiritual factors in the New Covenant. The following form an interesting study, as illustrating
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• Aenon
  ...ote: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , and ‘Salim’ in <i> Encyc. Biblica </i> . </p> <p> W. W. Moore. </p> .... (&nbsp;John 4:37-38.) John the Baptist, the forerunner, prepared the way in Samaria; Jesus and His disciples must needs follow up by preaching the gosp
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• Idolatry
  ...-32 , &nbsp; Acts 17:22-31 , &nbsp; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 etc. But idolatry in [[Christian]] doctrine has a wider significance than the service of materia ...aptivity several times, from which at last they returned, and were settled in the land of Judea, after which we hear no more of their idolatry. They have
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• Fable
  ...; and for <i> certitudo salutis </i> he adds, ‘we have the day-star rising in our hearts.’ The answer is still valid. Against the charge of following s ...but to an earlier and less developed form, such as is necessarily implied in the more elaborate systems. The heresies combated are no indication of the
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• Book Of Joshua
  ...covenant was made with the people that day, a statute, and an ordinance in Shechem. A great stone was set up as a witness of the covenant. Joshua, the faithfu ...19:51). The Levites, who had no tribal area of their own, were given towns in all the other tribes (20:1-21:45). </p> <p> Apart from the story of an earl
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• Hosea
  ...leads to death (&nbsp;Hosea 13:1-16 ). </p> <p> I. [[Repentance]] results in restoration and life for God's people (&nbsp;Hosea 14:1-9 ). </p> <p> Billy ...king ... in the latter days." But first must come her spiritual probation in the wilderness of trial (&nbsp;Hosea 2:14) and her return to the Egypt of a
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• Idol
  ...e "utterly to abolish the idols," and all "idolaters shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone" (&nbsp;Revelation 21:8; &nb ...<em> ‘tsb </em> (a homonym of the root meaning “sorrow and grief”) is used in several passages (cf. 1 Sam. 31:9). </p>
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• Jordan
  ...ing in a lake where navigation is impossible useless for irrigation, it is in fact what its Arabic name signifies, nothing but a 'great watering place,' ...acquainted with the Jordan; Naaman the [[Syrian]] was directed to go wash in the Jordan seven times, that his leprosy might depart from him (&nbsp; 2 Ki
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• Mount Ebal
  ...p mount Ebal, and others on mount Gerizim, and prove that the congregation in the valley could hear the voice from both mountains. Mount Ebal is now call ...sibility. </p> <p> The importance of the mountain from a military point of view is illustrated by the ruins of a massive fortress found on the summit. </p>
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• Bethel
  ...ps annexed the city to his Southern Kingdom. </p> <p> Bethel was destroyed in the sixth century during the Exile; however, some returned there when relea ...; &nbsp;1 Samuel 30:27). Bethel in &nbsp;Joshua 19:4 answers to [[Chesil]] in &nbsp;Joshua 15:30. Bethuel, &nbsp;1 Chronicles 4:30. [[Hiel]] of Bethel re
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• Preaching
  ...hristian church. May their numbers still be increased, and their exertions in the cause of truth be eminently crowned with the divine blessing! </p> <p> ...M. E. Ross, The Christian Standpoint, 1911, p. 15; A. M. Fairbairn, Christ in the Centuries, 1893, p. 23. </p> <p> M. Scott Fletcher. </p>
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• Altar
  ...in the region. The altars were not to be so high that they required steps, in order to avoid any immodesty which might occur if a priest lifted up his ro ...or "more given to religion" than is common, "rather given to veneration." In &nbsp;Ezekiel 43:15 "altar" is lit. '''''Harel''''' , "mount of God," denot
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• Tower
  ...332 f.). A representation is given in that work (p. 279) of a stone tower in the [[Hauran]] constructed of black basalt, with a stone loft at the height ...le's union and oneness with him, and their everlasting safety and security in him. </p>
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• The Book Of Judges
  .... The connection of Judges with Joshua, of which it is the sequel, appears in the reference to Joshua's death, &nbsp;Judges 2:6-9 (compare the same words
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• Conquest Of Canaan
  ...st approach to understanding the conquest of Canaan is one which is rooted in the biblical materials. See [[Achan]]; [[Ai]]; [[Exodus]]; [[Gilgal]]; [[Je ...</li> <li> <i> [[Eleazar]] </i> s Successor'. Eleazar died and was buried in Mount Ephraim, and was succeeded by his son Phinehas (&nbsp;Numbers 25:10-1
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• Burial
  ...ites, and Customs of the Jews connected with Death, Burial, and Mourning,’ in <i> JQ </i> R [Note: QR Jewish Quarterly Review.] , 1894 and 1895. </p> <p> ...sing the plaintive dirge, or express their hope of a blessed resurrection, in the strains of inspiration. All shall be silent despair. See [[Sepulchres]]
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• Neapolis
  ...th, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geographyii. [1868] 411; W. M. Leake, Travels in Northern Greece, 1836, iii. 180; W. M. Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveller, 1895 ...lla. </p> <p> '''2.''' Equates to [[Shechem]] in Old Testament, [[Sychar]] in New [[Testament]] Now ''Nablus'' , corrupted from Neapolis. </p>
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• Book Of Judith
  ...59), p. 698; Diestel in the Jahrb. f. d. Theol. 1862, p. 781 sq.; Lipsius, in Hilgenfeld's Zeitschr. 1867, p. 337 sq. </p> <p> [[Express]] commentaries o ...relevant articles in the Bible dicts., especially that by F. C. [[Porter]] in <i> Hdb </i> . </p>
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• Offerings And Sacrifices
  ...oliness]] School </i> ; [[J.]] Gordon McConville, <i> Law and [[Theology]] in Deuteronomy </i> ; [[J.]] Milgrom, <i> &nbsp;Leviticus 1-16 </i> ; idem, <i
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• Biblical. Slavery
  ...But this argues no approval of the relation; for </p> <p> '''(1)''' Jesus, in an analogous case, appeals to the paramount law of nature as superseding su
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• Human Sexuality
  ...J.]] [[B.]] Hurley, <i> Man and Woman in Biblical Perspective: [[A]] Study in Role Relationships and [[Authority]] </i> ; [[D.]] Jacobson, <i> Word and W
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• Joshua
  ...followed him, which is hardly inferior to that of Moses himself. </p> <p> In a real sense also his work was left unfinished at his death. The settlement
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• Tree
  ...ipal trees and shrubs mentioned in Holy Writ, the reader will find noticed in distinct articles under their several denominations. </p> ...rist]] to those who walk with GOD, dwell in His presence, and are planted in His courts. </p>
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