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99681 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.14

… 1:12-15), which is described (compare Joshua 15:15 - 19 ) as lying in a "dry" (the King James Version "south") region, yet with springs not far away. The actual site (edh Dhaheriyeh …

99682 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.18

… ( Judges 12:1 ) indicates the northern position of Mizpah. Aroer ( Judges 11:33 ) is unknown, but lay near Rabbath-ammon ( Joshua 13:25; 2 Samuel 24:5 ); it is to be distinguished …

99683 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.20

… 18:12 ). This agrees with the former mention of the site ( Judges 13:25 ) as being near Zorah; and the open valley near Beth-shemesh is visible, through the gorges of …

99684 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 …

99685 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 …

99686 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 …

99687 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 …

99688 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 …

99689 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 …

99690 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 …

99691 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 …

99692 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 …

99693 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.

99694 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 …

99695 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 …

99696 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 …

99697 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 …

99698 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 …

99699 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 …

99700 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 …