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Jabesh Gilead Scripture - 2 Samuel 21:12

And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:...

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Jabesh Gilead Scripture - Judges 21:8

And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly....

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Jebus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

je'-bus (yebhuc; Iebous): In Jdg 19:10,11, "Jebus (the same is Jerusalem)"; 1 Ch 11:4,5, "Jerusalem (the same is Jebus)." It was once thought that this was the first name of Jerusalem, as indeed might be suggested by the Biblical references, but it is now known from the Tell el-Amarna Letters that Urusa-lem was a name used centuries before the...

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Jebus Scripture - 1 Chronicles 11:4

And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which [is] Jebus; where the Jebusites [were], the inhabitants of the land....

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Jericho Scripture - Joshua 8:2

And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it....

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Idumea Scripture - Ezekiel 35:15

As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, [even] all of it: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD....

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Italy in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The peninsula from the Alps to the straits of Messina (Acts 18:2; Acts 27:1; Hebrews 13:24)....

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Jabbok River in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(emptying), a stream which intersects the mountain range of Gilead, comp. Jos 12:2,5 and falls into the Jordan on the east about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. It was anciently the border of the children of Ammon. Nu 21:24; De 2:37; 3:16 It was on the south bank of the Jabbok that the interview took place between Jacob and...

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Jabbok River Scripture - Genesis 32:22

And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok....

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Jabesh Gilead Scripture - 2 Samuel 2:4

And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, [That] the men of Jabeshgilead [were they] that buried Saul....

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