Manners & Customs
And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was
stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take
possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he
refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but
dead....
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And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land
cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all
the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in
Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers
went about [it], and smote it....
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And houses full of all good [things], which thou filledst not,
and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive
trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten
and be full;...
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Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt
prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;...
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But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still;
that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the
beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal
with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard....
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General scriptures concerning
Isa 19:9; 38:12
-Bezaleel skilled in
Ex 35:35
-Performed by women
2Ki 23:7
-Of the ephod
Ex 28:32; 39:22
-Of coats
Ex 39:27
-Weaver's shuttle
Job 7:6
-Beam
Jud 16:14; 2Sa 21:19; 1Ch 11:23...
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And they came to Elim, where [were] twelve wells of water, and
threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the
waters....
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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 HOUSE.) Chalon, "aperture" with lattice work; this being
opened, nothing prevented one from falling through the
aperture to the ground (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9). Houses
abutting on a town wall often had projecting windows looking
into the country. From them the spies at Jericho were let
down, and Paul at Damascus (Joshua 2:15; )...
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Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:
thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein:
thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes
thereof....
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