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Millo in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Heb. always with the article, "the" Millo). (1.) Probably the Canaanite name of some fortification, consisting of walls filled in with earth and stones, which protected Jerusalem on the north as its outermost defence. It is always rendered Akra i.e., "the citadel", in the LXX. It was already existing when David conquered Jerusalem (2 Sam...

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Millo Scripture - 1 Kings 11:27

And this [was] the cause that he lifted up [his] hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, [and] repaired the breaches of the city of David his father....

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Mizpah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Hebrew "the Mizpah," generally a "watchtower". Mizpeh (masculine) expresses rather the town; Mizpah (feminine) the district (Joshua 11:8; Joshua 11:8). 1. In Gilead E. of Jordan. The name Laban gave to Galeed, the "heap of witness," the memorial of his covenant with Jacob, and the boundary landmark between them (Genesis 31:48-49; Genesis 31:...

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Mizpah Scripture - Hosea 5:1

Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment [is] toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor....

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Mizpah Scripture - Jeremiah 40:6

Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land....

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Mahanaim Scripture - Genesis 32:2

And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim....

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Media Scripture - Isaiah 21:2

A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease....

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Megiddo in Naves Topical Bible

Also called MEGIDDON, and probably ARMAGEDDON -A city in the territory of Issachar situated on the southern edge of the plain of Esdraelon Jos 17:11; 1Ch 7:29 -Conquest of, by Joshua Jos 12:21 -Walled by Solomon 1Ki 9:15 -Included in one or Solomon's commissary districts 1Ki 4:12 -Ahaziah dies at 2Ki 9:27 -Valley of, Deborah defeats Si...

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Melita in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Acts 27:28), an island in the Mediterranean, the modern Malta. Here the ship in which Paul was being conveyed a prisoner to Rome was wrecked. The bay in which it was wrecked now bears the name of "St. Paul's Bay", "a certain creek with a shore." It is about 2 miles deep and 1 broad, and the whole physical condition of the scene answers t...

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Marah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("bitterness".) A fountain in the desert of Shur, between the Red Sea and Sinai; Israel reached Marah three days after crossing to the Arabian side (Exodus 15:23; Numbers 33:8). Now Ain Huwarah, 47 miles from Ayun Muss, near the place of crossing the Red Sea. The beneficial effect of the tree cast into the bitter water by God's direction is pr...

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