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3841 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. David.82
… Merib-baal did him no harm and some advantage ( 2 Samuel 9:1 - 13; 19:24 ff), and his clemency to Shimei helped to win him the tribe of Benjamin ( 2 Samuel 19:16 ff). Even in …
3842 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. David.83
… Merib-baal of treachery, and Merib-baal accuses Ziba of falsehood, and David cannot tell which is speaking the truth ( 2 Samuel 16:1 ff; 2 Samuel 19:24 ff). David himself …
3843 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Draught.2
… of Baal in Samaria into public latrines, "waterhouses." Mark adds here ( Mark 7:19 ) that by this saying Jesus cleansed all articles of food, i.e., declared them to …
3844 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Drunkenness.7
… to Baal-worship. In Daniel and his comrades we have another instance of voluntary abstinence ( Daniel 1:8 - 16 ). These, however, are isolated instances. Throughout …
3845 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Egypt.96
… and Baal-zephon opposite to them. They were thus "entangled in the land." Then the strong east wind bared the shallows, and made it possible to cross the gulf and …
3846 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Egypt.113
BAAL-ZEPHON was a shrine on the eastern site of the head of the Red Sea, a few miles South of Ismailiyeh; no trace is now known of it ( Exodus 14:2 ).
3847 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elijah.17
… Tyrian Baal, god of his Tyrian queen Jezebel ( 1 Kings 16:31 ). 1 Kings 16:34 mentions as another instance of the little weight attached in Ahab's time to ancient …
3848 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elijah.20
… of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah--still fed by the royal bounty in spite of the famine. Accepting Elijah's proposal, Ahab called all these and all the …
3849 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elijah.21
… of Baal "by to-morrow about this time." Explain Elijah's action how we may--and all the possible explanations of it have found defenders--he sought safety in instant …
3850 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elijah.24
… of Baal-zebub in Ekron. Elijah met the messengers and turned them back with a prediction, not from Baal-zebub but from Yahweh, of impending death. Ahaziah recognized …
3851 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elijah.27
… title Baal; but his character and his worship were worse and more debasing than anything that had before been known. Resistance offered by the servants of …
3852 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elijah.30
… 450 Baal prophets might well call down fire to consume the soldiers of an apostate and a hostile king. The purpose and meaning of the Elijah chapters is to …
3853 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elisha.23
… of Baal worship and headquarters of idolatry. The bald head, or perhaps closely cropped head, of Elisha, in contrast with that of Elijah, provoked the ridicule …
3854 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elisha.27
… from Baal-shalishah brought provisions as a present to Elisha--twenty loaves of fresh barley bread and fresh ears of grain. Unselfishly Elisha commands …
3855 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elisha.37
… of Baal and the revolution is complete; the house of Ahab is destroyed, Baal worship overthrown and an able king is upon the throne ( 2 Kings 9:1 - 37; 2 Kings 10:1 - 36 …
3856 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elisha.42
… of Baal ( 2 Kings 8:1 - 29; 2 Kings 9:1 - 37 ). He possessed the confidence of kings so fully that they addressed him as father and themselves as sons ( 2 Kings 6:21; 13:14 ). He …
3857 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elizaphan.2
Elizaphan - el-i-za'-fan, e-liz'-a-fan ('elitsaphan; Septuagint Eleisaphan, Elisaphan, Elisapa, Elisaphat, "God has protected; compare tsephanyah, Zephaniah, "Yah has protected," and the Phoenician, tsephanba`al, Baal has protected"):
3858 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ephraim (2).2
… of Baal-hazor (probably = Tell `Asur) where Abraham's sheep-farm was located, is determined by relation to it ( 2 Samuel 13:23 ). That it lay North of Jerusalem seems …
3859 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Esdraelon, Plain of.5
… of Baal ( 1 Kings 18:40 ). Dark memories of the destruction of Ahab's house by the furiously driving Jehu linger round Jezreel. Ahaziah, fleeing from the avenger …
3860 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethbaal.2
Ethbaal - eth-ba'-al, eth'-ba-al ('ethba`al, "with Baal"): "King of the Sidonians," and father of Jezebel whom Ahab king of Israel took to wife ( 1 Kings 16:31 ).