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Dead Sea in Naves Topical Bible

(Lies southeast of Jerusalem) -Called SALT SEA Ge 14:3; Nu 34:12 -SEA OF THE PLAIN De 3:17; 4:49; Jos 3:16 -EAST SEA Joe 2:20 -FORMER SEA Zec 14:8 -Prophecy concerning Eze 47:7-10,18...

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Decapolis in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

de-kap'-o-lis (Dekapolis): The name given to the region occupied by a league of "ten cities" (Mt 4:25; Mk 5:20; 7:31), which Eusebius defines (in Onomastica) as "lying in the Peraea, round Hippos, Pella and Gadara." Such combinations of Greek cities arose as Rome assumed dominion in the East, to promote their common interests in trade and com...

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Derbe Scripture - Acts 14:6

They were ware of [it], and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:...

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Dothan Scripture - 2 Kings 6:13

And he said, Go and spy where he [is], that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, [he is] in Dothan....

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Ebal Scripture - Joshua 8:33

And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the serva...

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Eden Scripture - Isaiah 51:3

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody....

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Eden Scripture - Genesis 3:24

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life....

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Dead Sea in Smiths Bible Dictionary

This name nowhere occurs in the Bible, and appears not to have existed until the second century after Christ. [See SEA, THE SALT]...

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Derbe in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

dur'-be (Derbe, Acts 14:20,21; 16:1; Derbaios, 20:4; Derbetes, Strabo, Cicero): A city in the extreme Southeast corner of the Lycaonian plain is mentioned twice as having been visited by Paul (on his first and second missionary journeys respectively), and it may now be regarded as highly probable that he passed through it on his third journey ...

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Eden in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

e'-d'-n (`edhen, "delight"; Edem): (1) The land in which "Yahweh God planted a garden," where upon his creation "he put the man whom he had formed" (Gen 2:8). In the Assyrian inscriptions idinu (Accadian, edin) means "plain" and it is from this that the Biblical word is probably derived. Following are the references to Eden in the Bible, aside...

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