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Eating Scripture - 1 Kings 1:41

And Adonijah and all the guests that [were] with him heard [it] as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore [is this] noise of the city being in an uproar?...

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Schools of the Prophets in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1 Sam. 19:18-24; 2 Kings 2:3, 5, 7, 12, 15) were instituted for the purpose of training young men for the prophetical and priestly offices. (See PROPHET -T0003006; SAMUEL -T0003209.)...

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Door in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

dor: Most commonly the rendering of Hebrew pethach, "doorway," deleth, "door" proper (the two distinguished in Gen 19:6), or of Greek thura, which represents both meanings. The door proper was usually of wood, frequently sheeted with metal, sometimes of one slab of stone, as shown in excavations in the Hauran. It turned on pivots (the "hinges...

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Doors Scripture - 1 Kings 6:32

The two doors also [were of] olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid [them] with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees....

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Dowry in Naves Topical Bible

General scriptures concerning Ex 22:16,17; Ru 4:3-9 -See WOMEN...

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Earrings in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

er'-ring: An ornamental pendant of some kind hanging from the ears has been worn by both sexes in oriental lands from the earliest times. Among the Greeks and Romans, as with western peoples in general, its use was confined to females. The ears in the statue of the Medicean Venus are pierced and probably were originally ornamented with earring...

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Earrings Scripture - Genesis 35:4

And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which [were] in their hand, and [all their] earrings which [were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem....

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Eating in Naves Topical Bible

The host acting as waiter Ge 18:8 -Favored guests served a double portion Ge 43:34 -Table used in Jud 1:7 -Sitting at table Ex 32:6 -Reclining on couches Am 6:4,7; Lu 7:37,38; Joh 13:25 -Ablutions before Mt 15:2 -See FEASTS -See FOOD -See GLUTTONY...

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Eating Scripture - Exodus 12:4

And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb....

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Education in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Chiefly in the law of God (Exodus 12:26; Exodus 13:8; Exodus 13:14; Deuteronomy 4:5; Deuteronomy 4:9-10; Deuteronomy 6:2; Deuteronomy 6:7; Deuteronomy 6:20; Deuteronomy 11:19; Deuteronomy 11:21; Acts 22:3; 2 Timothy 3:15). The Book of Proverbs inculcates on parents, as to their children, the duty of disciplinary instruction and training in the...

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