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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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