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Michaiah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(who is like God?). 1. Same as MICAH 6. 2Ch 34:25 2. Same as MICHA 3. 1Ch 9:15; Ne 12:35 3. One of the priests at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem. Ne 12:41 4. The daughter of Uriel of Gibeah, wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah king of Judah. 2Ch 13:2 [MAACHAH,3] 5. One of the princes of Jehoshaphat whom he sent to teach the law...

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Michri in Hitchcock's Bible Names

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Micah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(who is like God?), the same name as Micaiah. [MICAIAH] 1. An Israelite whose familiar story is preserved in the 17th and 18th chapters of Judges. Micah is evidently a devout believers in Jehovah, and yet so completely ignorant is he of the law of Jehovah that the mode which he adopts of honoring him is to make a molten and graven image, terap...

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Micaiah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

MICAIAH or MICHAIAH. Son of Imlah (1 Kings 22:8). Consulted by Ahab at Jehoshaphat's request when undertaking the joint expedition against Ramoth Gilead, which Benhadad had engaged to restore (1 Kings 20:34). The 400 prophets whom Ahab gathered together to "inquire the word of Jehovah" (1 Kings 22:5) were prophets of Jeroboam's symbolic calf w...

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Michael in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mi'-ka-el, mi'-kel (mikha'el, "who is like God?" Michael): (1) The father of Sethur the Asherite spy (Nu 13:13). (2) (3) Two Gadites (1 Ch 5:13,14). (4) A name in the genealogy of Asaph (1 Ch 6:40 (Hebrew 25)). (5) A son of Izrahiah of Issachar (1 Ch 7:3). (6) A Benjamite (1 Ch 8:16). (7) A Manassite who ceded to David at Ziklag (1 Ch 12:20). (8) ...

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Michaiah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) The queen-mother of King Abijah (2 Chr. 13:2). (See MAACAH (2.) One of those sent out by Jehoshaphat to instruct the people in the law (2 Chr. 17:7). (3.) 2 Kings 22:12. (4.) The son of Gemariah. He reported to the king's officers Jeremiah's prediction, which he had heard Baruch read (Jer. 36:11, 13) from his father Gemariah's chambe...

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Midian in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mid'-i-an, mid'-i-an-its (midhyan, midhyanim; Madiam, Madienaioi): 1. The Seed of Abraham to the Time of the Judges: Midian was a son of Abraham by his concubine Keturah. To him were born 5 sons, Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaah (Gen 25:2,4; 1 Ch 1:32 f). Bearing gifts from Abraham, he and his brothers, each with his own household, moved ...

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Micah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a shortened form of Micaiah, who is like Jehovah? (1.) A man of Mount Ephraim, whose history so far is introduced in Judg. 17, apparently for the purpose of leading to an account of the settlement of the tribe of Dan in Northern Israel, and for the purpose also of illustrating the lawlessness of the times in which he lived (Judg. 18; 19:1...

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Micaiah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

who is like to God?...

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Michael in Naves Topical Bible

-1. An Asherite Nu 13:13 -2. Two Gadites 1Ch 5:13,14 -3. A Gershonite Levite 1Ch 6:40 -4. A descendant of Issachar 1Ch 7:3 -5. A Benjamite 1Ch 8:16 -6. A captain of the thousands of Manasseh who joined David at Ziklag 1Ch 12:20 -7. Father of Omri 1Ch 27:18 -8. Son of Jehoshaphat Killed by his brother, Jehoram 2Ch 21:2-4 -9. Fathe...

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