Manners & Customs
Creation of
Ps 148:4,5
-Covered the whole earth
Ge 1:9
-Daily allowance of
Eze 4:11
-City waterworks
2Ki 20:20
-Vision of, by Ezekiel
Eze 47:1-5
-Of separation
Nu 19:2-22
-Libation of
1Sa 7:6
-Irrigation with
See IRRIGATION
-Miraculously supplied
To the Israelites
Ex 17:1,6; Nu 20:11
To Samson
Jud 15:19
To Jehoshaphat's army
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(Heb. beer), to be distinguished from a fountain (Heb. 'ain).
A
"beer" was a deep shaft, bored far under the rocky
surface by
the art of man, which contained water which percolated
through
the strata in its sides. Such wells were those of
Jacob and
Beersheba, etc. (see Gen. 21:19, 25, 30, 31; 24:11;
26:15,
18-25, 32, etc.). In the Pentate...
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(See FOUNTAIN.) As ''Ayin, "fount," literally, "eye", refers
to the water springing up to us, so beer, "well," from a
root "to bore," refers to our finding our way down to it.
The Bir- and the En- are always distinct. The rarity of
wells in the Sinaitic region explains the national
rejoicings over Beer or the well, afterward Beer-Elim, "well
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And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city,
and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water,
and mar every good piece of land with stones....
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And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had
digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines
had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called
their names after the names by which his father had called
them....
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Weaving was an art practised in very early times (Ex.
35:35).
The Egyptians were specially skilled in it (Isa.
19:9; Ezek.
27:7), and some have regarded them as its inventors.
In the wilderness, the Hebrews practised it (Ex.
26:1, 8;
28:4, 39; Lev. 13:47). It is referred to in
subsequent times as
specially the women's work (2 Kings 23:7; P...
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They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he
that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
breaketh out into a viper....
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And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights:...
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And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he
spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a
company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet
them, and let him say, [Is it] peace?...
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And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost
is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king
said, He [is] a good man, and cometh with good tidings....
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