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David in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("beloved".) His outer life is narrated in the histories of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles; his inner life is unfolded by himself in the Psalms. The verbal coincidences in Psalms and the allusions incidentally to facts which the histories detail are evidently undesigned, and therefore confirm the genuineness of both. The youngest of the eight s...

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Dedan in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

de'-dan, de'dan-its (the King James Version Dedanim, ded'-a- nim; dedhan, "low," dedhanim): An Arabian people named in Gen 10:7 as descended from Cush; in Gen 25:3 as descended from Keturah. Evidently, they were, like the related Sheba (Sabaeans), of mixed race (compare Gen 10:7,28). In Isa 21:13 allusion is made to the "caravans of Dedani...

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Delaiah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(freed by Jehovah). 1. A priest in the time of David, leader of the twenty-third course of priests. 1Ch 24:18 (B.C. 1014.) 2. "Children of Delaiah" were among the people of uncertain pedigree who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. Ezr 2:60; Ne 7:62 (B.C. 536.) 3. Son of Mehetabeel and father of Shemaiah. Ne 6:10 (B.C. before 410.) 4. So...

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Demas in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Contracted from DEMETRIUS, or Demarchus. Paul's "fellow laborer," along with Mark and Luke (Philemon 1:24), and companion (Colossians 4:14) during his first Roman imprisonment. But he declined; for in 2 Timothy 4:10 Paul writes, "Demas hath forsaken (Greek text: "left behind") me, having loved this present world (world course), and is departe...

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Dathan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

welled; belonging to a fountain, a son of Eliab, a Reubenite, who joined Korah (q.v.) in his conspiracy, and with his accomplices was swallowed up by an earthquake (Num. 16:1; 26:9; Deut. 11:6; Ps. 106:17)....

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Debir in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

de'-ber (debhir, or debhir, "oracle"): King of Eglon, one of the five Amorite kings whose confederation against Israel was overcome and who were killed by Joshua (Josh 10:3)....

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Dedan in Naves Topical Bible

1. Son of Raamah Ge 10:7; 1Ch 1:9 -2. Son of Jokshan Ge 25:3; 1Ch 1:32 -3. A country, probably bordering on Edom Jer 49:8; Eze 25:13; 27:15,20; 38:13...

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Delaiah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

freed by Jehovah. (1.) The head of the twenty-third division of the priestly order (1 Chr. 24:18). (2.) A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah's first roll of prophecy was read (Jer. 36:12). (3.) The head of one of the bands of exiles that returned under Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:60; Neh. 7:62)....

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Demas in Hitchcock's Bible Names

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Cush in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

kush (kush): 1. The Ancestor of Many Nations: (1) The first of the sons of Ham, from whom sprang Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabtecah. He was also the father of Nimrod, who rounded Babel (Babylon) and the other great states of Shinar or Babylonia (Gen 10:6-8). The meaning of the name is uncertain. (2) The name of the country around...

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