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Dothan in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

DOTHAN or DOTHAIN. ("two wells".) At it Joseph was put into a well pit (from whence it derived its name) become dry, and afterward sold to Ishmaelite merchants who traveled that route between Syria and Egypt (Genesis 37:17); near Shechem. Elisha's place of sojourn, when the Syrian king invested the city with horses and chariots, to Gehazi's di...

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Dead Sea in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

I. PRESENT AREA II. FORMER ENLARGEMENT III. LEVEL OF THE DEAD SEA IN EARLY HISTORIC TIMES IV. CONSTITUTION OF THE WATER V. CLIMATE VI. ROADS VII. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 1. The Plain of the Jordan 2. Ain Jidi (En-gedi) 3. The Fortress of Masada 4. Jebel Usdum (Mount of Sodom) 5. Vale of Siddim 6. El-Lisan VIII. HISTORY LITERATURE The n...

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Salt Sea Scripture - Joshua 15:2

And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:...

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Decapolis Scripture - Mark 5:20

And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all [men] did marvel....

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Derbe Scripture - Acts 16:1

Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father [was] a Greek:...

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Ebal in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. The hill upon which the curses of the law were to be read; as on the opposite hill GERIZIM the blessings (Deuteronomy 11:29-30; Deuteronomy 27:12-13; Joshua 8:30- 35). The valley wherein Shethem or Sichem (now Nablous) lay runs between the two hills. Ebal the mount of the curse, is steeper and more barren; Gerizim, the mount of the blessing,...

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Ebal Scripture - Joshua 8:30

Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,...

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Eden Scripture - 2 Chronicles 29:12

Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:...

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Eden Scripture - 2 Kings 19:12

Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?...

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