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7501 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Army.15
… --foot, horse and chariots--of Sisera. Once again the tribes of Israel assembled in force from "Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead" ( Judges 20:1 ) to punish …
7502 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Army.18
… Zobah, horses for 100 chariots ( 2 Samuel 8:4 ), cavalry and chariots were not an effective branch of the service in his reign. Solomon, however, disregarding the …
7503 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Army.21
… by horses and chariots, which moved to the front as need required ( 1 Samuel 31:3; 1 Kings 22:31; 2 Chronicles 14:9 ). Strategy was called into play according to the …
7504 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Army.26
… white horses clothed in fine linen white and pure (see Swete’s note).
7505 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Aspatha.2
Aspatha - as-pa’-tha (’acpatha’): One of the ten sons of Haman ( Esther 9:7 ) (Pers aspadata, "given by a sacred horse," according to Thesaurus, Add. 71, after Pott and Benfey).
7506 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ass.10
… no horses, have a famous breed of swift and hardy gray asses which they assert they cross at intervals with the wild asses of the desert. It is not unlikely that …
7507 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ass.11
As a domestic animal it preceded the horse, which was first introduced into Egypt by the Hyksos about 1800 BC.
7508 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Assyria.25
… gazelles. Horses were imported from Cappadocia; ducks were kept, and mastiffs were employed in hunting.
7509 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Assyria.27
… with horses. Cedar wood was brought from Mount Amanus, and there was already trade, through Syria, with the Mediterranean. Nineveh itself was probably founded …
7510 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Assyria.36
… the horse became a mounted archer. Sennacherib further clothed the horseman in a coat of mail. The infantry were about ten times as numerous as the calvary …
7511 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Asunder.11
Part asunder (hiphridh): With a preposition ben, "between," "to separate." The chariot and horses of fire "parted asunder" Elijah and Elisha ( 2 Kings 2:11 ).
7512 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Barak.2
… chariots, horses and Canaanites. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot. Barak pursued him and found him murdered by Jael in her tent. This completed …
7513 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Barley.3
… for horses and asses ( 1 Kings 4:28 ), oats being practically unknown, but it was, as it now is, to some extent, the food of the poor in country districts ( Ruth 2:17; 2 Kings …
7514 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Battle-bow.2
… the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off; and he shall speak peace unto the nations" (compare Zechariah 10:4 ). The battle-bow was sometimes …
7515 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Beetle.2
… of horses or a flight of locusts, from charjal, "to gallop," and harjawan, "a wingless locust."
7516 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bell.2
… of horses would hardly be a suitable place for a fairly long inscription, and as buckles shaped exactly like cymbals (see MUSIC ) were used as ornaments for …
7517 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bell.3
… of horses, or are fastened to the necks of the he-goats or wethers that lead the flock in eastern lands.
7518 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Benhadad.31
… , and horses and chariots. He had penetrated as far as Samaria, the newly built city of Omri, now the capital of his son Ahab. Benhadad and his Syrian host had laid …
7519 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Benhadad.36
… with horses and chariots to seize him at Dothan, and led them into Samaria where he saw them treated kindly and sent back to their master ( 2 Kings 6:8 - 23 ).
7520 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Beth-marcaboth.2
… of horses" ( Joshua 19:5; 1 Chronicles 4:31 ) as cities in the Negeb near Ziklag. It is tempting to connect these stations with "the cities for his chariots, and the …