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3341 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Melchizedek.2 (William Smith)
… to the sacred writings for a thousand years. Jewish tradition pronounces Melchizedek to be a survivor of the deluge, the patriarch Shem. The way in which he …
3342 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Mephibosheth.4 (William Smith)
… five years old. At this age he met with an accident which deprived him for life of the use of both feet. 2 Samuel 4:4. After this he found a home with Machir ben-Ammiel …
3343 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Moses.7 (William Smith)
… the eleventh month of the fortieth year of the wanderings, in the plains of Moab. Deuteronomy 1:3, Deuteronomy 1:5. Moses is described as 120 years of age, but …
3344 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Nebuchadnezzar.4 (William Smith)
… the final siege of Jerusalem in the ninth year of Zedekiah—his own seventeenth year (b.c. 588)—and took it two years later, b.c. 586. Zedekiah escaped from the city …
3345 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Noah.2 (William Smith)
… , in the line of Seth, was the son of Lamech and grandson of Methuselah. (b.c. 2948–1998.) We hear nothing of Noah till he is 500 years old, when it is said he begat three …
3346 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Old Testament.3 (William Smith)
… the text. —A history of the text of the Old Testament should properly commence from the date of the completion of the canon. As regards the form in which the sacred …
3347 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Palm tree.2 (William Smith)
… -tamar, “the felling of the palm tree,” is clear in its derivation. There is also Tamar, “the palm.” Ezekiel 47:19. Bethany means the “house of dates.” The word Phœnicia …
3348 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Peter.2 (William Smith)
… in the request that the traitor might be pointed out. After the supper his words drew out the meaning of the significant act of our Lord in washing his disciples …
3349 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Plagues The ten.3 (William Smith)
… to the changes of color to which the Nile is subject, the appearance of the Red Sea, and the so-called rain and dew of blood of the middle ages; the last two occasioned …
3350 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Rehoboam.2 (William Smith)
… 17 years, having ascended the throne b.c. 975, at the age of 41. 1 Kings 14:21; 2 Chronicles 12:13. He had 18 wives, 60 concubines, 28 sons, and 60 daughters.
3351 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Reuben.2 (William Smith)
… at the exodus the men of the tribe above twenty years of age and fit for active warlike service numbered 46,500. The Reubenites maintained the ancient calling …
3352 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Samuel.2 (William Smith)
… became the spiritual father of the psalmist-king. The death of Samuel is described as taking place in the year of the close of David’s wanderings. It is said …
3353 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sanhedrin.3 (William Smith)
… to the high priest. The vice-president, called in the Talmud “father of the house of judgment,” sat at the right hand of the president. Some writers speak of a second …
3354 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sarah.3 (William Smith)
… at the age of 127 years, 28 years before her husband, and was buried by him in the cave of Machpelah. (b.c. 1860.) She is referred to in the New Testament as a type of …
3355 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Scribes.2 (William Smith)
… preserve the sacred books, the laws, the hymns, the prophecies of the past. II. Development of doctrine. —Of the scribes of this period, with the exception of Ezra …
3356 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sea The Salt.4 (William Smith)
… the Zúrka Ma˒ı̂n (the ancient Callirrhoë, and possibly the more ancient en-Eglaim), the Mojib (the Arnon of the Bible), and the Beni-Hemâd; on the south the Kurâhy …
3357 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Serug.2 (William Smith)
Se’rug ( branch ), son of Reu and great-grandfather of Abraham. His age is given in the Hebrew Bible as 230 years. Genesis 11:20-23. (b.c. 2180.)
3358 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Shem.2 (William Smith)
… the nakedness of their father, and received the first blessing. Genesis 9:25-27. He died at the age of 600 years. The portion of the earth occupied by the descendants …
3359 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Slave.4 (William Smith)
… ., by the arrival of the year of jubilee, or by the repayment to the master of the purchase money paid for the servant, after deducting a sum for the value of his …
3360 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Solomon.2 (William Smith)
… to the throne. —Solomon was the child of David’s old age, the last-born of all his sons. 1 Chronicles 3:5. The yearnings of the “man of war” led him to give to the new-born …