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Rephael in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1 Chronicles 26:7....

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Rehum in Hitchcock's Bible Names

merciful; compassionate...

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Rehob in Smiths Bible Dictionary

1. The father of Hadadezer king of Zobah, whom David smote at the Euphrates. 2Sa 8:3,12 (B.C. before 1043.) 2. A Levite or family of Levites who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. Ne 10:11 (B.C. 410.) 3. The northern limit of the exploration of the spies. Nu 13:21 Robinson fixes the position of Rehob as not far from Tell el-Kady and Banias. ...

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Rehoboam in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Solomon's son by the Ammonite Naamah (1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 14:13; 1 Kings 11:43; 2 Chronicles 12:13). Succeeded his father in his 41st year. In 2 Chronicles 13:7 "young and tender hearted" means inexperienced (for he was not young in years then) and faint-hearted, not energetic in making a stand against those who insolently rose against him....

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Rei in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

re'-i (re`i, "friendly"; Rhesei): Rei, Shimei and the Gibborim who belonged to David are listed among those who did not join Adonijah in his attempt on the throne (1 Ki 1:8). The name is very uncertain. Winckler (Geschichte, II, 247) identifies him with Ira, the Jairite, who was a "priest to David" (2 Sam 20:26 the Revised Version margin); he ...

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Rehob in Easton's Bible Dictionary

street; broad place. (1.) The father of Hadadezer, king of Tobah (2 Sam. 8:3, 12). (2.) Neh. 10:11. (3.) The same, probably, as Beth-rehob (2 Sam. 10:6, 8; Judg. 18:28), a place in the north of Israel (Num. 13:21). It is now supposed to be represented by the castle of Hunin, south-west of Dan, on the road from Hamath into Coele- Syria. (4...

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Rehoboam in Hitchcock's Bible Names

who sets the people at liberty...

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Rei in Naves Topical Bible

-An Israelite who remained loyal to David at the time of the usurpation of Adonijah 1Ki 1:8...

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Rehob in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. 2 Samuel 8:3; 2 Samuel 8:12. Josephus (Ant. 7:5, section 1) calls him Araos, and makes Rehob mean "charioteer." A Syrian name. (See BETHREHOB.) (2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 10:8). 2. Nehemiah 10:11....

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Rehum in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

re'-hum (rechum, or rechum): (1) One of the twelve heads of the Jewish community returning from captivity with Zerubbabel (Ezr 2:2; Neh 7:7 (by a copyist's error "Nehum"); 12:3; 1 Esdras 5:8, "Roimus"). (2) A Persian officer of high rank (literally, "master of judgment, taste, reason") who with others wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Ar...

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