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99661 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine Exploration, 2a.15
… ( Joshua 12:21; 17:11; Judges 1:27; Judges 5:19 - 21; 1 Kings 4:12; 9:15; 1 Chronicles 7:29 ). So far as the ruins testify, there was no settled city life between circa 600 BC and …
99662 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine Exploration, 2a.16
… , Joshua 12:21; Judges 5:19; 2 Kings 9:27 ).--This great commercial and military center of Northern Palestine was opened to the world in 1903-1905 by Dr. Schumacher …
99663 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine Exploration, 2a.22
… of 12 Rhodian jar-handles stamped in Aramaic, "To Yahweh" (Yah, Yahu). Vincent has suggested that as during the monarchy (7th to 6th century) "To the King" meant probably …
99664 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine Exploration, 2b.3
… to 12-15 AD. The plan of the Herodian temple consisted of a stairway, a portico, a vestibule and a cella with a corridor on each side. The staircase was about 80 …
99665 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine Exploration, 2b.5
… 1911-12, in which from 36 to 167 workmen were employed, Dr. D. Mackenzie uncovered a massive double gate and primitive walls 12-15 ft. high, with mighty bastions …
99666 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine Exploration, 2b.8
… ,VI, 12), modifying these only slightly for home purposes. They were a small race 5 ft. 4 inches to 5 ft. 7 in. in height, slender in form, with rather broad heads and thick …
99667 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine Exploration, 2b.9
… and 12 ft. 10 inches broad, which led to a long sloping passage of equal dimensions, with the arch having a vaulted roof and the sides well plumb. This led into …
99668 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine Exploration, 2b.15
… of 12 witnesses, one of whom is the Egyptian governor of the new town, another an Assyrian noble whose name precedes that of the governor, and still another …
99669 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 1.47
The word properly means "Philistia," but appears to be first used in the extended sense, as meaning all the "Land of Israel" or "Holy Land" ( Zechariah 2:12 ), by Philo and by Ovid and later Roman authors (Reland, Palestine Illustr., I, 38-42).
99670 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 1.61
… ( Genesis 12:10; 26:2; 41:50; Leviticus 26:20; 2 Samuel 21:1; 1 Kings 8:35; Isaiah 5:6; Jeremiah 14:1; Joel 1:10 - 12; Haggai 1:11; Zechariah 14:17 ), and droughts are also noticed in …
99671 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 1.63
… " ( Genesis 12:6; 35:4; Joshua 24:26 ). Samaritan tradition showed the site near BalaTa ("the oak") at the foot of Mt. Gerizim. The "Canaanite was then in the land" (in Abraham's …
99672 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 1.64
… ( Genesis 12:16 ), he settled in the pastoral region, between Beersheba and the western Kadesh ( Genesis 13:1; 20:1 ), called in Hebrew the neghebh, "dry" country, on the …
99673 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 1.68
… 26:12 ), and the vicinity is still capable of such cultivation. Thence he retreated Southeast to Rehoboth (Rucheibeh), North of Kadesh, where ancient wells like …
99674 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 1.73
… , 5, 12 ), the latter being in a pastoral valley where Judah met his "sheep shearers." Tamar sat at "the entrance of Enaim" (compare Genesis 38:14, 22 the English Revised …
99675 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 1.78
… commanded (12:3) to overthrow the Canaanite altars, to break the standing stones which were emblems of superstition, to burn the 'asherah poles (or artificial …
99676 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.5
… 8:12 - 13; Nehemiah 11:34 - 35 ). Tirzah is mentioned ( Joshua 12:24 ) in Samaria, whereas the future capital of Omri is not. Ai is said to have been made "a heap forever" ( Joshua …
99677 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.6
… " of 12 stones was erected. Jericho was not at the medieval site (er Richa) South of Gilgal, or at the Herodian site farther West, but at the great spring `Ain es SulTan …
99678 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.9
… ( Joshua 12:20 ), now Semmunieh, in which case the "waters" were those of the perennial stream in Wady el Melek, 3 miles to the North, which flow West to join the lower …
99679 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.10
… the 12 tribes. Judah and Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh), being the strongest, appear to have occupied the mountains and the shephelah, as far North as Lower Galilee …
99680 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.13
… Merarites (12). The six Cities of Refuge were included in the total, and were placed 3 each side of the Jordan in the South, in the center, and in the North, namely …