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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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Baalis in Easton's Bible Dictionary

king of the Ammonites at the time of the Babylonian captivity (Jer. 40:14). He hired Ishmael to slay Gedaliah who had been appointed governor over the cities of Judah....

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Baanah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ba'-a-na ba`anah, "son of oppression"): (1) Captain in the army of Ish-bosheth (2 Sam 4:2 ff). (2) Father of Iteleb, one of David's mighty men (2 Sam 23:29; 1 Ch 11:30). (3) Returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem; a leader and one who sealed the covenant (Ezr 2:2; Neh 7:7; 10:27). See BAANA (4)....

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Baasha in Easton's Bible Dictionary

bravery, the third king of the separate kingdom of Israel, and founder of its second dynasty (1 Kings 15; 16; 2 Chr. 16:1-6). He was the son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar. The city of Tirzah he made the capital of his kingdom, and there he was buried, after an eventful reign of twenty-four years (1 Kings 15:33). On account of his ido...

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Balaam in Hitchcock's Bible Names

the ancient of the people; the destruction of the people...

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Balak in Easton's Bible Dictionary

empty; spoiler, a son of Zippor, and king of the Moabites (Num. 22:2, 4). From fear of the Israelites, who were encamped near the confines of his territory, he applied to Balaam (q.v.) to curse them; but in vain (Josh. 24:9)....

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Bani in Easton's Bible Dictionary

built. (1.) 1 Chr. 6:46. (2.) One of David's thirty-seven warriors, a Gadite (2 Sam. 23:36). (3.) Ezra 2:10; 10:29,34,38. (4.) A Levite who was prominent in the reforms on the return from Babylon (Neh. 8:7; 9:4,5). His son Rehum took part in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 3:17)....

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