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Jerubbaal in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(contender with Baal), the surname of Gideon, which he acquired in consequence of destroying the altar of Baal, when his father defended him from the vengeance of the Abiezrites. Jud 6:32...

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Jerubbesheth in Hitchcock's Bible Names

let the idol of confusion defend itself...

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Jehoshaphat in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Jehovah-judged. (1.) One of David's body-guard (1 Chr. 11:43). (2.) One of the priests who accompanied the removal of the ark to Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15:24). (3.) Son of Ahilud, "recorder" or annalist under David and Solomon (2 Sam. 8:16), a state officer of high rank, chancellor or vizier of the kingdom. (4.) Solomon's purveyor in Issachar ...

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Jehozadak in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(Jehovah justifies), usually called Jozadak or Josedech. He was the son of the high priest Seraiah. 1Ch 6:14,15 When his father was slain at Riblah by order of Nebuchadnezzar, 2Ki 25:18,21 Jehozadak was led away captive to Babylon. 1Ch 6:15 (B.C. 588.) He himself never attained the high priesthood, but he was the father of Jeshua the high prie...

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Jehucal in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

je-hu'-kal (yechukhal, probably meaning "Yahweh is able"): A courtier sent by King Zedekiah to Jeremiah to ask the prophet to pray for the king and the people (Jer 37:3). Most versions except Septuagint, with Jer 38:1, have "Jucal" ( yukhal, same meaning)....

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Jehudi in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a Jew, son of Nethaniah. He was sent by the princes to invite Baruch to read Jeremiah's roll to them (Jer. 36:14, 21)....

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Jehoshaphat in Hitchcock's Bible Names

the Lord is judge...

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Jehozadak in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Jehovah-justified, the son of the high priest Seraiah at the time of the Babylonian exile (1 Chr. 6:14, 15). He was carried into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar, and probably died in Babylon. He was the father of Jeshua, or Joshua, who returned with Zerubbabel....

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Jehucal in Naves Topical Bible

-Also called JUCAL -Son of Shelemiah Jer 37:3; 38:1,4...

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Jephthah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

whom God sets free, or the breaker through, a "mighty man of valour" who delivered Israel from the oppression of the Ammonites (Judg. 11:1-33), and judged Israel six years (12:7). He has been described as "a wild, daring, Gilead mountaineer, a sort of warrior Elijah." After forty-five years of comparative quiet Israel again apostatized, a...

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