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99621 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.23
… 4:12 ). Ekron, whence it was sent back ( 1 Samuel 6:16 ), was only 12 miles from Beth-shemesh (`Ainshems), where the ark rested on a "great stone" (Septuagint, 1 Samuel 6:18 ); and …
99622 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.24
… 9:12 ), who was probably known to him, since Gibeah and Ramah were only 2 miles apart. Saul’s journey home thus naturally lay on the road past Rachel’s tomb near …
99623 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.27
… 17:12; 28:15 ) show that they must have been exterminated, like the lion, in comparatively late times. The victory over Goliath, described in the chapter containing …
99624 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.29
… :6 - 12 ), far from Gath, so that King Achish did not know whether David had raided the South of Judah, or the tribes toward Shur. Saul’s power in the mountains was irresistible …
99625 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.31
… :3 - 12 ); but for "Syrians" ( 2 Samuel 8:13 ) the more correct reading appears to be Edomites ( 1 Chronicles 18:12 ), and the "Valley of Salt" was probably South of the Dead Sea …
99626 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.32
… 29:12 ), though Hebrew kings could apparently write and read ( Deuteronomy 17:18; 2 Kings 19:14 ); to the present day the accomplishment is not general in the East …
99627 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.34
… Joshua 12:17 ), (d) Manasseh, (e) Issachar, (f) Northern Gilead and Bashan, (g) Southern Gilead, (h) Naphtali, (i) Asher, (j) part of Isaachar and probably Zebulun (the text is doubtful …
99628 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.35
… Kings 12:29 ), Ramah (er-Ram) being a frontier town with Geba and Mizpah ( 1 Kings 15:17, 22 ); but after the Syrian raid into Galilee ( 1 Kings 15:20 ), the capital of Israel …
99629 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.38
… 8:12; Nehemiah 11:35 ), and it is worthy of note that Lod (Lydda) is not to be regarded as a new town simply because not mentioned in the earlier books; for Lod is mentioned …
99630 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 3.4
… :1 - 12 ) that this great poem was written in a time of general anarchy, and of Arab lawlessness.
99631 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 3.6
… :26; 12:11; 25:13), to trade (7:16; 31:14,24) and to flocks (27:23-27). The most remarkable passage (26:8) reads literally, "As he that packs a stone into the stone-heap, so is he …
99632 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 3.7
… 4:12 - 15 ). Solomon’s vineyard--another emblem of the bride--( Song of Solomon 1:6; 8:11 ) was in Baal-hamon, which some suppose to be Baal-hermon, still famous for its vineyards …
99633 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 3.11
… 2:12 ) is probably Buceirah, near the southern border of Moab. In the last-cited passage there is a play on the words batsrah ("fortress") and botscah for "sheepfold …
99634 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 3.12
… 7:12 ), but the town seems still to have been inhabited ( Jeremiah 41:5 ). The "pit" at Mizpah ( Jeremiah 41:6 - 9 ) may have been the great rock reservoir South of Tell en-Nacbeh …
99635 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 3.14
… . Hosea (12:11) speaks of the altars of Gilead and Gilgal as being "as heaps in the furrows of the fields." He perhaps alludes to the large dolmen fields of this region …
99636 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 3.19
… Maccabees 12:25, 30, 32 ). He fortified Adida (Chadditheh) in the shephelah ( 1 Maccabees 12:38 ), West of Jerusalem, where Simon awaited the Greek usurper Tryphon ( 1 …
99637 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 3.20
… Maccabees 12:17 ). Ephron, West of Ashteroth-karnaim ( 2 Maccabees 12:26, 27 ), is unknown; and Beth-shean is called by its later name Scythopolis ( 2 Maccabees 12:29 ), as …
99638 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 3.26
… ( John 12:21 ), and Reland (Palestine Illustr., II, 553-55) thought that there were two towns of the name. It is certain that the other notices refer to Bethsaida, called …
99639 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palm Tree.2
… 92:12; Song of Solomon 7:7 f; Joel 1:12 ); tomer, Deborah "dwelt under the palm-tree" ( Judges 4:5 ); "They are like a palm-tree (margin "pillar"), of turned work" ( Jeremiah 10:5 ); timorah …
99640 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palm Tree.9
They shall be full of sap and green" ( Psalms 92:12 - 14 ).