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Asia in Hitchcock's Bible Names

muddy; boggy...

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Armageddon in Easton's Bible Dictionary

occurs only in Rev. 16:16 (R.V., "Har-Magedon"), as symbolically designating the place where the "battle of that great day of God Almighty" (ver. 14) shall be fought. The word properly means the "mount of Megiddo." It is the scene of the final conflict between Christ and Antichrist. The idea of such a scene was suggested by the Old Testam...

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Ashdod in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

ASHDOD or AZOTUS. ("fortress".) Now Esdud. On a commanding height. One of the five confederate Philistine cities, 30 miles from the S. of Israel, three from the Mediterranean, midway between Gaza and Joppa. A seat of the worship of (See DAGON; there the idol fell before God's captive ark, the head and palms cut off, and only the fishy stump (...

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Ashdod Scripture - Amos 1:8

And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD....

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Ashdod Scripture - Joshua 15:46

From Ekron even unto the sea, all that [lay] near Ashdod, with their villages:...

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Ashkelon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Askelon, Ascalon. One of the five Philistine lords' cities (Joshua 13:3; 1 Samuel 6:17). Remote in the S. on the coast of the Mediterranean, so less brought into contact with the Jews; omitted in the towns allotted to Judah (Joshua 15; but compare Judges 1:18). Gaza was still more S., but on the main road from Egypt to Israel. Samson slew thir...

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Ashkelon Scripture - Zephaniah 2:4

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up....

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Ashdod in Hitchcock's Bible Names

effusion; inclination; theft...

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Ashdod Scripture - 1 Samuel 6:17

And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines returned [for] a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;...

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Armageddon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("Mount of Megiddo": from a root gadad, "to cut off," i.e. "slaughter" (Revelation 16:16)). The plain of Esdraelon, the great Old Testament battle field between Israel and the various enemies of Jehovah's people: the scene of Barak's victory over Canaan, and Gideon's over Midian (Judges 4; 5; 7), the scene also of Saul's death and Israel's def...

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