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Eglon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. King of Moab. With Amalekites and Ammonites crossed the Jordan and took Jericho the city of palmtrees, left unwalled, and therefore an easy prey to the foe, because of Joshua's curse in destroying it 60 years before. There (according to Josephus) Eglon built a palace. For 18 years he oppressed Israel. Ehud, a young Israelite of Jericho, ga...

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Elah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

e'-la ('elah, "oak" or "terebinth"): (1) A "duke" or "sheik" (head of a clan, the Revised Version (British and American) "chief") of Edom (Gen 36:41). (2) Shimei-ben-Elah, Solomon's commissary in Benjamin (1 Ki 4:18 the King James Version). (3) A son of Caleb the son of Jephunneh (1 Ch 4:15). (4) Father of Hoshea, last king of Israel (2 Ki ...

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Elam in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(eternity). 1. This seems to have been originally the name of a man, the son of Shem. Ge 10:22; 1Ch 1:17 Commonly, however, it is used as the appellation of a country. Ge 14:1,9; Isa 11:11; 21:2 The Elam of Scripture appears to be the province lying south of Assyria and east of Persia proper, to which Herodotus gives the name of Cissia (iii. ...

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Elasah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Ezra 10:22. 2. Son of Shaphan, one of the two sent by king Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon (by whose permission alone be reigned) after the first deportation. He took charge of Jeremiah's letter to the captives (Jeremiah 29:3)....

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Eldad in Naves Topical Bible

Prophesies in the camp of the Israelites Nu 11:26-29...

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Eglon in Hitchcock's Bible Names

same as Eglah...

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Elah in Naves Topical Bible

1. A valley where David killed Goliath 1Sa 17:2,19; 21:9 -2. An Edomite duke Ge 36:41; 1Ch 1:52 -3. Son of Caleb 1Ch 4:15 -4. Father of Shimei 1Ki 4:18 -5. Son and successor of Baasha, king of Israel 1Ki 16:6-14 -6. Father of Hoshea 2Ki 15:30; 17:1 -7. A Benjamite chief 1Ch 9:8...

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Elasah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

the doings of God...

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Eldad in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(favored of God) and Me'dad (love), two of the seventy elders to whom was communicated the prophetic power of Moses. Nu 11:16,26 (B.C. 1490.) Although their names were upon the last which Moses had drawn up, Nu 11:26 they did not repair with the rest of their brethren to the tabernacle, but continued to prophesy in the camp. moses, being reque...

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Elam in Easton's Bible Dictionary

highland, the son of Shem (Gen. 10:22), and the name of the country inhabited by his descendants (14:1, 9; Isa. 11:11; 21:2, etc.) lying to the east of Babylonia, and extending to the shore of the Mediterranean, a distance in a direct line of about 1,000 miles. The name Elam is an Assyrian word meaning "high." "The inhabitants of Elam, or ...

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