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prince of the tribe and over the host of Reuben. (Numbers 1:5; 2:10; 7:30,35; 10:18)

BUL'WARK . See War.

Amalekites, Country Of The

AMALEKITES, COUNTRY OF THE, a region lying between Canaan and Egypt, chiefly south of the mountains of Judah, and from Mount Sinai eastward to Mount Seir and the Salt Sea. Gen 14:7 ; Ex 17:8;Num 13:2…

Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani

The Hebrew form, as Eloi, Eloi, etc., is the Syro-Chaldaic (the common language in use by the Jews in the time of Christ) of the first words of the twenty-second Psalm; they mean “My God, my God, why…

The children of Pochereth of Zebaim were among the children of Solomon’s servants who returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:57; Nehemiah 7:59)

Kibrothhattaavah

i.e. as in the margin, the graves of lust, a station of the Israelites in the wilderness, where, growing tired of manna and desiring flesh, they murmured, and God sent them quails in great abundance,…

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"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." — Psalm 119:105