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Bani in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. 2 Samuel 23:36. 2. 1 Chronicles 6:46. 3. 1 Chronicles 9:4. 4. Ezra 2:10; Ezra 10:29; Ezra 10:34. 5. Nehemiah 3:17; Nehemiah 8:7; Nehemiah 9:4; Nehemiah 10:13; Nehemiah 11:22....

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Bar-Jona in Naves Topical Bible

Surname of Peter Mt 16:17...

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Baalis in Smiths Bible Dictionary

king of the Ammonites at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. Jer 40:14 (B.C. 588.)...

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Baana in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. 1 Kings 4:12. 2. Nehemiah 3:4....

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Baasha in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(wicked), B.C. 953-931, third sovereign of the separate kingdom of Israel, and the founder of its second dynasty. He was son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar and conspired against King Nadab, 1Ki 15:27 and killed him with his whole family. He appears to have been of humble origin. 1Ki 16:2 It was probably in the 13th year of his reign that h...

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Balaam in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(Hebrew balam) "not of the people" (Israel), a "foreigner"; else bilam, "the destroyer of the people," corresponding to the Greek Nicolaos, "conqueror of the people" (Revelation 2:14-15), namely, by having seduced them to fornication with the Moabite women (Numbers 25), just as the Nicolaitanes sanctioned the eating of things sacrificed to ido...

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Balak in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(spoiler), son of Zippor, king of the Moabites, who hired Balaam to curse the Israelites; but his designs were frustrated int he manner recorded in Nu 22:24 (B.C. 1451.)...

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Bar-Jesus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

bar-je'-zus (Bariesous): "A certain sorcerer (Greek magos), a false prophet, a Jew" whom Paul and Silas found at Paphos in Cyprus in the train of Sergius Paulus, the Roman proconsul (Acts 13:6 ff). The proconsul was "a man of understanding" (literally, a prudent or sagacious man), of an inquiring mind, interested in the thought and magic of h...

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Bar-Jona in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(son of Jonah). [PETER]...

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Baal in Naves Topical Bible

1. An idol of the Phoenicians, god of the sun The Israelites wickedly worshiped in the time of the judges Jud 2:10-23; 1Sa 7:3,4 By the kingdom of Israel 2Ki 17:16; Jer 23:13; Ho 1; 2; 13:1 Under Ahab 1Ki 16:31-33; 18:18; 19:18 Under Jehoram 2Ki 3:2 By the Jews 2Ki 21:3; 2Ch 22:2-4; 24:7; 28:2; 33:3 Jeremiah expostulates against the wor...

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