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Troas Scripture - 2 Timothy 4:13

The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring [with thee], and the books, [but] especially the parchments....

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Tyre in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a rock, now es-Sur; an ancient Phoenician city, about 23 miles, in a direct line, north of Acre, and 20 south of Sidon. Sidon was the oldest Phoenician city, but Tyre had a longer and more illustrious history. The commerce of the whole world was gathered into the warehouses of Tyre. "Tyrian merchants were the first who ventured to navigat...

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Tyre Scripture - 2 Chronicles 2:3

And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me]....

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Jehoshaphat in Hitchcock's Bible Names

the Lord is judge...

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Valley of Salt Scripture - 2 Samuel 8:13

And David gat [him] a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, [being] eighteen thousand [men]....

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Wilderness of Zin Scripture - Numbers 13:21

So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath....

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Zaraphath in Naves Topical Bible

(A city between Tyre and Sidon) -Elijah performs two miracles in 1Ki 17:8-24 -Called SAREPTA (A. V.) in Lu 4:26...

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Ur in Easton's Bible Dictionary

light, or the moon city, a city "of the Chaldees," the birthplace of Haran (Gen. 11:28,31), the largest city of Shinar or northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial centre of the country as well as the centre of political power. It stood near the mouth of the Euphrates, on its western bank, and is represented by the mounds (of bricks c...

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Ziklag in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

zik'-lag (tsiqelagh, tsiqelagh (2 Sam 1:1), tsiqelagh (1 Ch 12:1,20); usually in the Septuagint Sekelak, or Sikelag): A town assigned (Josh 19:5; 1 Ch 4:30) to Simeon, but in Josh 15:31 named, between Hornah and Madmannah, as one of the cities of the Negeb of Judah, "toward the border of Edom." It is said (1 Sam 27:6) to have remained a royal ...

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Tarsus Scripture - Acts 22:3

I am verily a man [which am] a Jew, born in Tarsus, [a city] in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, [and] taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day....

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