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Inns in Naves Topical Bible

General scriptures concerning Ge 42:27; 43:21; Ex 4:24; Lu 2:7; 10:34...

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Inns Scripture - Luke 10:34

And went to [him], and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him....

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Jewels Scripture - 2 Chronicles 20:25

And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much....

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Lamps in Smiths Bible Dictionary

1. That part of the golden candlestick belonging to the tabernacle which bore the light; also of each of the ten candlesticks placed by Solomon in the temple before the holy of holies. Ex 25:37; 1Ki 7:49; 2Ch 4:20; 13:11; Zec 4:2 The lamps were lighted every evening and cleansed every morning. Ex 30:7,8 2. A torch or flambeau, such as was car...

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Lamps Scripture - Daniel 10:6

His body also [was] like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude....

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Hunting in Naves Topical Bible

Authorized in the Mosaic law Le 17:13 -By Nimrod Ge 10:9 -By Esau Ge 27:3,5,30,33 -By Ishmael Ge 21:20 -Of lion Job 10:16 -Fowling 1Sa 26:20; Ps 140:5; 141:9,10; Pr 1:17; Ec 9:12; La 3:52; Am 3:5 -FIGURATIVE Jer 16:16...

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Idol in Smiths Bible Dictionary

An image or anything used as an object of worship in place of the true God. Among the earliest objects of worship, regarded as symbols of deity, were the meteoric stones,which the ancients believed to have been images of the Gods sent down from heaven. From these they transferred their regard to rough unhewn blocks, to stone columns or pillars...

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Idols Scripture - Micah 1:7

And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered [it] of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot....

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Inns in Smiths Bible Dictionary

The Hebrew word (malon) thus rendered literally signified "a lodging-place for the night." Inns, in our sense of the term were, as they still are, unknown in the East, where hospitality is religiously practiced. The khans or caravanserais are the representatives of European inns, and these were established but gradually. The halting-place of a...

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Jewels in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ju'-el, joo'-el: An ornament of gold, silver or of precious stones in the form of armlet, bracelet, anklet, nose-ring, etc. Oriental dress yields itself freely to such adornment, to which there are many allusions in Scripture. a frequent term in Hebrew is keli ("utensil," "vessel"), coupled with mention of "gold" or "silver" or both (Gen 24:53...

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