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Alexandria Scripture - Acts 27:6

And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein....

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Ammon in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

am'-on, am'-on-its (`ammon; `ammonim): The Hebrew tradition makes this tribe descendants of Lot and hence related to the Israelites (Gen 19:38). This is reflected in the name usually employed in Old Testament to designate them, Ben `Ammi, Bene `Ammon, "son of my people," "children of my people," i.e. relatives. Hence we find that the Isra...

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Ammon Scripture - Judges 11:29

Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children of Ammon....

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Ammon Scripture - 1 Chronicles 20:1

And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out [to battle], Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it....

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Ammon Scripture - 1 Chronicles 20:3

And he brought out the people that [were] in it, and cut [them] with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem....

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Ammon Scripture - Jeremiah 9:26

Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart....

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Aijalon in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

a'-ja-lon ('ayyalon, "deerplace"; the King James Version, Ajalon (Josh 10:12)): (1) The name of a town allotted to the tribe of Dan (Josh 19:42), which was also designated a Levitical city (Josh 21:24), which fell to the Sons of Kohath (1 Ch 6:69). The first mention of Aijalon is in the narrative of Joshua's defeat of the five Amorite kings: "...

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Aijalon in Naves Topical Bible

1. A city of Dan, Jos 19:42. Assigned to the Levites. A city of refuge Jos 21:24; 1Sa 14:31; 1Ch 6:69. Amorites of, not exterminated Jud 1:35. 2. A city of Zebulun Jud 12:12. 3. A city of Judah 2Ch 28:18; 11:10. 4. A valley Jos 10:12...

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Aijalon in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(place of gazelles). 1. A city of the Kohathites. Jos 21:24; 1Ch 6:69 It was a Levitical city and a city of refuge. It was originally allotted to the tribe of Dan, Jos 19:42 Authorized Version, AJALON, which tribe, however, was unable to dispossess the Amorites of the place. Jud 1:35 Aijalon was one of the towns fortified by Reheboam, 2Ch 11:10 ...

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Abanah River in Easton's Bible Dictionary

stony (Heb. marg. "Amanah," perennial), the chief river of Damascus (2 Kings 5:12). Its modern name is Barada, the Chrysorrhoas, or "golden stream," of the Greeks. It rises in a cleft of the Anti-Lebanon range, about 23 miles north-west of Damascus, and after flowing southward for a little way parts into three smaller streams, the central one fl...

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