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101Jesus — 1) Joshua, the son of Nun (Acts 7:45; Heb. 4:8; R.V., Joshua ). 2) A Jewish Christian surnamed Justus (Col. 4:11). Je sus, the proper, as Christ is the official, name of our Lord. To distinguish him from others so called, he is spoken of …
102Pekah — Open eyed, the son of Remaliah a captain in the army of Pekahiah, king of Israel, whom he slew, with the aid of a band of Gileadites, and succeeded (B.C. 758) on the throne (2 Kings 15:25). Seventeen years after this he entered into an… …
103Samaria — A watch mountain or a watch tower. In the heart of the mountains of Israel, a few miles north west of Shechem, stands the hill of Shomeron, a solitary mountain, a great mamelon. It is an oblong hill, with steep but not inaccessible sides, and… …
104So — (Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway. He was bribed by Hoshea to help him against the Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:4). This was a return to the policy that had been successful in the reign of… …
105Tiglath-Pileser III — King of Assyria. 745 727 BC. Assyria, as the great northern power of the Near East, needed to gain access to a sea coast and to the products of the Levant, particularly timber. Under Tiglathpileser III, the revitalised and ambitious *Assyrian …
106Pekah — (fl. 8th cent BCE) King of Israel (735 732 BCE). He gained the throne by killing Pekahiah. He formed an alliance with Rezin of Aram Dammesek and together they attacked Judah. King Ahaz of Judah appealed to the Assyrian king Tiglath Pileser III …
107Deuteronomy 32 — 1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: 3 Because I… …
1082 Kings 15 — 1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. 2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother s name was… …
1091 Chronicles 27 — 1 Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the… …
110Nehemiah 10 — 1 Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, 2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, 3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah, 4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, 5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, 6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, 7… …
