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Eldaah in Naves Topical Bible

A descendant of Abraham Ge 25:4; 1Ch 1:33...

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Eldad in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

ELDAD ("loved of God") and Medad. Two of the 70 elders to whom the Spirit was imparted, in order to share. Moses' burden of responsibility. Though "they were of them that were written" in Moses' list (implying that the 70 were permanently appointed) they did not go with the rest to the tabernacle, but prophesied in the camp (Numbers 11:26). F...

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Eglon in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

eg'-lon (`eghlon, "circle"): A king of Moab in the period of the Judges who, in alliance with Ammon and Amalek, overcame Israel and made Jericho his capital, presumably driven across the Jordan by the turmoil in his own kingdom which at that time was probably being used as a battle ground by Edom and the desert tribes (compare Gen 36:35)....

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Ehud in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(union). 1. Ehud son of Bilhah, and great-grandson of Benjamin the patriarch. 1Ch 7:10; 8:6 2. Ehud son of Gera, of the tribe of Benjamin, Jud 3:15 the second judge of the Israelites. (B.C. about 1370.) In the Bible he is not called a judge, but a deliverer (l.c.): so Othniel, Jud 3:9 and all the Judges. Ne 9:27 As a Benjamite he was special...

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Elasah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

el'-a-sa ('el`asah, "God has made"): (1) An Israelite who had married a foreign wife (Ezr 10:22). (2) A son of Shaphan, by whom, with Gemariah, King Zedekiah sent a message to Babylon (Jer 29:3)....

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Eldaah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

Ge 25:4; 1Ch 1:3 the last in order of the sons of Midian....

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Eldad in Hitchcock's Bible Names

favored of God; love of God...

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Eglon in Naves Topical Bible

1. King of Moab Assassinated by Ehud Jud 3:12-30 -2. An ancient city of Canaan Captured by Joshua Jos 10:23,35 Allotted to the tribe of Judah Jos 15:39...

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Elah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Baasha's son and successor on the Israelite throne (1 Kings 16:8-10); reigned little more than a year. A beacon to warn drunkards, killed by the captain of half his chariots, Zimri, while "drinking himself drunk" in the house of his steward Arza in Tirzah. Josephus (Ant. 8:12, section 4) says it occurred while his army and officers were abs...

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Ehud in Easton's Bible Dictionary

union. (1.) A descendant of Benjamin (1 Chr. 7:10), his great-grandson. (2.) The son of Gera, of the tribe of Benjamin (Judg. 3:15). After the death of Othniel the people again fell into idolatry, and Eglon, the king of Moab, uniting his bands with those of the Ammonites and the Amalekites, crossed the Jordan and took the city of Jericho,...

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