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Mount Nebo in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. A town of Moab, taken possession of by Reuben. Also the Mount of Moab, from which Moses viewed Canaan (Deuteronomy 32:49; Deuteronomy 34:1). Pisgah was a ridge of the Abarim mountains, W. from Heshbon. Nebo was a part of Pisgah named from the town, NEBO close by. Isaiah 15:2, "Moab shall howl 'at' (al) Nebo." (Jeremiah 48:1; Numbers 32:3; N...

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Mount of Olives in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Har-hazzey-thim. E. of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 11:23), separated from it by "the valley of Jehoshaphat" (Zechariah 14:4). "The mount of the olive grove" (Elaionos), Acts 1:12. Arabic jebel es Zeitun. In 2 Samuel 15:30 "the ascent of the olives" (Hebrew). "The mountain facing Jerusalem" (1 Kings 11:7); called "the hill of corruption" from Solomon's ...

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Mount of Olives Scripture - Matthew 26:30

And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives....

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Mount Sinai in Easton's Bible Dictionary

of Sin (the moon god), called also Horeb, the name of the mountain district which was reached by the Hebrews in the third month after the Exodus. Here they remained encamped for about a whole year. Their journey from the Red Sea to this encampment, including all the windings of the route, was about 150 miles. The last twenty-two chapters o...

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Michmash in Naves Topical Bible

A city of the tribe of Benjamin 1Sa 13:5 -People of the captivity return to, and dwell in Ezr 2:27; Ne 11:31 -Prophesy concerning the king of Assyria storing his baggage at Isa 10:28 -Is garrisoned by Saul 1Sa 13:2 -Philistines killed at, by Jonathan 1Sa 14:31...

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Michmash Scripture - Nehemiah 11:31

The children also of Benjamin from Geba [dwelt] at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and [in] their villages,...

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Miletus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Miletum, 2 Tim. 4:20), a seaport town and the ancient capital of Ionia, about 36 miles south of Ephesus. On his voyage from Greece to Syria, Paul touched at this port, and delivered that noble and pathetic address to the elders ("presbyters," ver. 28) of Ephesus recorded in Acts 20:15-35. The site of Miletus is now some 10 miles from the ...

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Millo in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Hebrew "THE Millo." On taking the Jehusites' citadel David "built the city (Jerusalem) from the Millo round about" (2 Samuel 5:9; 1 Chronicles 11:8). Solomon raised his levy to repair Millo (1 Kings 9:15; 1 Kings 9:24; 1 Kings 11:27). So Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 32:5). It was part of "the city of David". (See JERUSALEM.) Septuagint translated Mi...

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Millo Scripture - 2 Kings 12:20

And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla....

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Mizpah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

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