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Esarhaddon in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Assur has given a brother, successor of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:37; Isa. 37:38). He ascended the throne about B.C. 681. Nothing further is recorded of him in Scripture, except that he settled certain colonists in Samaria (Ezra 4:2). But from the monuments it appears that he was the most powerful of all the Assyrian monarchs. He built many ...

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Esau in Hitchcock's Bible Names

he that acts or finishes...

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Eshcol in Naves Topical Bible

1. An Amorite, and ally of Abraham Ge 14:13,24 -2. A valley or brook near Hebron Nu 13:23,24; 32:9; De 1:24...

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Eth-baal in Easton's Bible Dictionary

with Baal, a king of Sidon (B.C. 940-908), father of Jezebel, who was the wife of Ahab (1 Kings 16:31). He is said to have been also a priest of Astarte, whose worship was closely allied to that of Baal, and this may account for his daughter's zeal in promoting idolatry in Israel. This marriage of Ahab was most fatal to both Israel and Jud...

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Ethan in Hitchcock's Bible Names

strong; the gift of the island...

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Eshcol in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(cluster of grapes), brother of Mamre the Amorite and of Aner, and one of Abraham's companions in his pursuit of the four kings who had carried off Lot. Ge 14:13,24 (B.C. 1912.)....

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Esarhaddon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Sennacherib's younger son, Sargon's grandson (2 Kings 19:37). frontASSYRIA.) After the murder of his father by his two sons, Esarhaddon the oldest surviving son succeeded, 680 B.C. The Assyrian inscriptions state that for some months after his accession he warred with his half brothers (Rawlinson, Ant. Monarchies, 2:186). The Greek Abydenus s...

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