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3261 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Uzziah; (Azariah).3
… to the throne at the age of 16. The length of his reign is given as 52 years. The chronological questions raised by this statement are considered below. His accession …
3262 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Uzziah; (Azariah).8
… 40 years of age at this time, we are brought for the year of Uzziah's accession to 783. His death, 52 years later, would occur in 731. (On the other hand, it is known …
3263 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Wanderings of Israel.39
… of the Wilderness: There is no reason to think that the conditions at the time of the Exodus differed materially from those of the present time. The Arabs have …
3264 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Weaving.2
… from the above only in the devices for accelerating the process. The first of these improvements dates back some 5,000 years to the early Egyptians, who discovered …
3265 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Woman.35
… /2 years of age had the right to give herself in marriage. Vows made by a daughter, while under age, could be annulled by the father ( Numbers 30:3 - 5 ) or by the husband …
3266 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Woman.59
… . the superintendence of the rest of the women, and the charge of the widows and orphans supported at public expense. Dean Alford (see the Commentary in the place …
3267 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Zoan.14
… : In the 14th century BC the city was rebuilt by Rameses II, and was then known as Pa-Ramessu. The Hyksos rulers had held it for 500 years according to Manetho, and …
3268 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Abraham.2 (William Smith)
… in the 86th year of his age. Genesis 16. [ HAGAR; ISHMAEL .] But this was not the accomplishment of the promise. Thirteen years elapsed, during which Abram still dwelt …
3269 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Ahaz.2 (William Smith)
… . But the allies inflicted a most severe injury on Judah by the capture of Elath, a flourishing port on the Red Sea, while the Philistines invaded the west and …
3270 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Ahaziah.4 (William Smith)
… one year, b.c. 884. He is called AZARIAH, 2 Chronicles 22:6, probably by a copyist’s error, and JEHOAHAZ. 2 Chronicles 21:17. He was 22 years old at his accession. 2 Kings …
3271 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Alexander III.2 (William Smith)
… this year he founded Alexandria. In the same year he finally defeated Darius at Gaugamela, who in b.c. 330 was murdered. The next two years were occupied by Alexander …
3272 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Amaziah.3 (William Smith)
… to the throne at the age of 25, on the murder of his father, and punished the murderers. In order to restore his kingdom to the greatness of Jehoshaphat’s days …
3273 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Army.2 (William Smith)
… the year. 1 Chronicles 27. It does not appear that the system established by David was maintained by the kings of Judah; but in Israel the proximity of the hostile …
3274 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Asa.3 (William Smith)
… destroyed the works which he had begun at Ramah. In his old age Asa suffered from gout. He died, greatly loved and honored, in the 41st year of his reign.
3275 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Assyria Asshur.10 (William Smith)
… by the discoveries lately made there, which confirm and illustrate the Bible. The most important of them is the finding of the stone tablets or books which …
3276 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Cedar.2 (William Smith)
… near the highest point of the range westward to the Mediterranean, and enters the sea at the port of Tripoli. The grove is at the very upper part of the valley …
3277 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Daniel.4 (William Smith)
… in “the third year of Cyrus” (b.c. 534) he saw his last recorded vision, on the banks of the Tigris. Daniel 10:1, Daniel 10:4. In the prophecies of Ezekiel mention is made …
3278 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. David.9 (William Smith)
… of the kings of Judah, was pointed out in the latest times of the Jewish people. The edifice shown as such from the Crusades to the present day is on the southern …
3279 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Eli.2 (William Smith)
… at the advanced age of 98 years, 1 Sam. 1 Samuel 4:15, overcome by the disastrous intelligence that the ark of God had been taken in battle by the Philistines, who …
3280 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Food.4 (William Smith)
… meat. The animals killed for meat were—calves, lambs, oxen not above three years of age, harts, roebucks, and fallow deer; birds of various kinds; fish, with the exception …