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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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