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Nabal in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Of Maon. (See MAON.); 1 Samuel 25, compare 1 Samuel 23:25. (See DAVID.) A sheepmaster on the border of Judah which took its name from the great "Caleb" (3) (1 Samuel 30:14), next the wilderness. His history, as also that of Boaz, Barzillai, Naboth, is a sample of a Jew's private life (1 Samuel 25:2; 1 Samuel 25:4; 1 Samuel 25:36)....

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Naboth in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(fruits), the victim of Ahab and Jezebel, was the owner of a small vineyard at Jezreel, close to the royal palace of Shab. 1Ki 21:1,2 (B.C. 897.) It thus became an object of desire to the king, who offered an equivalent in money or another vineyard. In exchange for this Naboth, in the independent spirit of a Jewish landholder, refused: "The L...

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Naaman in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(pleasantness). 1. "Naaman the Syrian." Lu 4:27 Naaman was commander-in-chief of the army of Syria, and was nearest to the person of the king, Ben-hadad II., whom he accompanied officially and supported when he went to worship in the temple of Rimmon, 2Ki 5:18 at Damascus, the capital. (B.C. 885.) A Jewish tradition at least as old as the tim...

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Nabal in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

na'-bal (nabhal, "foolish" or "wicked"; Nabal): A wealthy man of Maon in the highlands of Judah, not far from Hebron, owner of many sheep and goats which he pastured around Carmel in the same district. He was a churlish and wicked man (1 Sam 25:2 ff). When David was a fugitive from Saul, he and his followers sought refuge in the wilderness of ...

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Nabal in Naves Topical Bible

-(Husband of Abigail; Hebrew means "fool.") -History of 1Sa 25:2-38...

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Naboth in Easton's Bible Dictionary

fruits, "the Jezreelite," was the owner of a portion of ground on the eastern slope of the hill of Jezreel (2 Kings 9:25, 26). This small "plat of ground" seems to have been all he possessed. It was a vineyard, and lay "hard by the palace of Ahab" (1 Kings 21:1, 2), who greatly coveted it. Naboth, however, refused on any terms to part wit...

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Naaman in Easton's Bible Dictionary

pleasantness, a Syrian, the commander of the armies of Benhadad II. in the time of Joram, king of Israel. He was afflicted with leprosy; and when the little Hebrew slave-girl that waited on his wife told her of a prophet in Samaria who could cure her master, he obtained a letter from Benhadad and proceeded with it to Joram. The king of Is...

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Naboth in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

"fruit" (Gesenius); "preeminence" (Furst). 1 Kings 21; 2 Kings 9:21-26. (See AHAB; ELIJAH.) Septuagint (1 Kings 21:1) omit "which was in Jezreel," and read instead of "the palace" "the threshing floor of Ahab king of Samaria." This locates Naboth's vineyard on the hill of Samaria, close by the threshing floor, hard by the gate of the city; but...

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Naaman in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. A son, i.e. grandson, of Benjamin (Genesis 46:21; Numbers 26:40; 1 Chronicles 8:4); reckoned in the Genesis genealogy as a "son" because he became head of a distinct family, the Naamites. Came down to Egypt with Jacob. 2. Naaman the Syrian (2 Kings 5). Identified by Jewish tradition (Josephus, Ant. 8:15, section 5) with the archer (1 King...

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Nabal in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(fool) was a sheepmaster on the confines of Judea and the desert, in that part of the country which bore from its great conqueror the name of Caleb. 1Sa 25:3; 30:14 (B.C. about 1055.) His residence was on the southern Carmel, in the pasture lands of Maon. His wealth, as might be expected from his abode, consisted chiefly of sheep and goats. It...

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