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Belshazzar in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(prince of Bel), the last king of Babylon. In Da 5:2 Nebuchadnezzar is called the father of Belshazzar. This, of course, need only mean grandfather or ancestor. According to the well-known narrative Belshazzar gave a splendid feast in his palace during the siege of Babylon (B.C. 538), using the sacred vessels of the temple, which Nebuchadnezze...

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Belteshazzar in Hitchcock's Bible Names

who lays up treasures in secret...

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Bedan in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A judge of Israel between Jerubbaal and Jephthah, in 1 Samuel 12:11. Seemingly not, mentioned in Judges, but the name is probably identical with Abdon, which has the same radical consonants (Judges 12:13-15). No achievement of his for Israel's deliverance is recorded, but may it not be inferred from the record "he was buried ... in the mount o...

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Bela in Naves Topical Bible

1. A city also called Zoar Ge 14:2,8 -2. King of Edom Ge 36:32,33; 1Ch 1:43,44 -3. Son of Benjamin Nu 26:38,40; 1Ch 7:6,7; 8:1,3 Called BELAH Ge 46:21 -4. Son of Azaz 1Ch 5:8...

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Belshazzar in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Bel protect the king!, the last of the kings of Babylon (Dan. 5:1). He was the son of Nabonidus by Nitocris, who was the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar and the widow of Nergal- sharezer. When still young he made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and when heated with wine sent for the sacred vessels his "father" (Dan. 5:2), or grandfath...

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Bedan in Hitchcock's Bible Names

according to judgment...

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Bela in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(destruction). 1. One of the five cities of the plain which was spared at the intercession of Lot, and received the name of Zoar, Ge 14:2; 19:22 [ZOAR] 2. Son of Beor, who reigned over Edom in the city of Dinhabah, eight generations before Saul. Ge 36:31-33; 1Ch 1:43,44 3. Eldest son of Benjamin, according to Ge 46:21 (Authorized Version "B...

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Ben-ammi in Naves Topical Bible

Son of Lot Ge 19:38...

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Ben-ammi in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ben-am'-i (ben `ammi, "son of my kinsman," Gen 19:38): The progenitor of the Ammonites was a son of Lot's younger daughter, born after the destruction of Sodom. The account of his birth as well as that of Moab was commonly regarded as an expression of Israel's intense hatred and contempt toward these two nations. However, this idea is rather ...

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Belshazzar in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Contracted from Belsharezar: from Bel, the Babylonian idol, and shar, a "king"; zar is a common Babylonian termination, as in Nebuchadnez-zar. His solemnly instructive history is graphically told in Daniel 5. See BABEL; BABYLON, for the remarkable confirmation of the Scripture account of his death on the night of revelry in the siege of Babylo...

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