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Valley of Jehoshaphat Scripture - Joel 3:12

Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about....

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Wilderness of Zin in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

zin (tsin; Sin): (1) A town in the extreme South of Judah, on the line separating that province from Edom, named between the ascent of Akrabbim and Kadesh-barnea (Nu 34:4; Josh 15:3). It must have lain somewhere between Wady el-Fiqra (the ascent of Akrabbim?) and `Ain Qadis (Kadesh-barnea); but the site has not been recovered. (2) The Wilderne...

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Wilderness of Zin Scripture - Numbers 27:14

For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that [is] the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin....

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Zaraphath in Easton's Bible Dictionary

smelting-shop, "a workshop for the refining and smelting of metals", a small Phoenician town, now Surafend, about a mile from the coast, almost midway on the road between Tyre and Sidon. Here Elijah sojourned with a poor widow during the "great famine," when the "heaven was shut up three years and six months" (Luke 4:26; 1 Kings 17:10). It...

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Troas in Smiths Bible Dictionary

the city from which St. Paul first sailed, in consequence of a divine intimation, to carry the gospel from Asia to Europe. Ac 16:8,11 It is mentioned on other occasions. Ac 20:5,6; 2Co 2:12,13; 2Ti 4:13 Its full name was Alexandria Troas (Liv. xxxv. 42), and sometimes it was called simply Alexandria sometimes simply Troas. It was first built b...

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Troas Scripture - Acts 16:8

And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas....

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Tyre Scripture - 1 Kings 9:11

([Now] Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee....

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Tyre Scripture - Isaiah 23:5

As at the report concerning Egypt, [so] shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre....

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Ur Scripture - Genesis 11:28

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees....

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Valley of Salt in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

(ge' ha-melach): The scene of battles, firstly, between David or his lieutenant Abishai and the Edomites (2 Sam 8:13; 1 Ch 18:12; Ps 60, title), and later between Amaziah and these same foes (2 Ki 14:7; 2 Ch 25:11). It is tempting to connect this "Valley of Salt" with es Sebkhah, the marshy, salt-impregnated plain which extends from the southe...

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