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Clay in Smiths Bible Dictionary

As the sediment of water remaining in pits or in streets, the word is used frequently in the Old Testament. Ps 18:42; Isa 57:20; Jer 38:6 and in the New Testament, Joh 9:6 a mixture of sand or dust with spittle. It is also found in the sense of potter's clay. Isa 41:25 The great seat of the pottery of the present day in Israel is Gaza, where a...

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Cities Scripture - 2 Chronicles 26:6

And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines....

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Villages Scripture - Judges 5:11

[They that are delivered] from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, [even] the righteous acts [toward the inhabitants] of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates....

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Gate in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

gat (Hebrew normally (over 300 times) sha`ar; occasionally deleth, properly, "gateway" (but compare Dt 3:5); elsewhere the gateway is pethach (compare especially Gen 19:6); Aramaic tera`; Greek pulon, pule; the English Revised Version and the King James Version add caph, "threshold," in 1 Ch 9:19,22; and the King James Version adds delathayim,...

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Gates Scripture - Deuteronomy 5:14

But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou....

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Tower in Naves Topical Bible

Of Babel Ge 11:1-9 -Of Edar Ge 35:21 -Of Penuel Jud 8:8,9,17 -Of Shechem Jud 9:46,49 -Of Meah Ne 3:1; 12:39 -Of Hananeel Ne 3:1; 12:39; Jer 31:38; Zec 14:10 -Of David So 4:4 -Of Syene Eze 29:10 -Of Siloam Lu 13:4 -In the walls of Jerusalem 2Ch 26:9; 32:5; Ne 12:38,39 -Of other cities 2Ch 14:7 -In the desert 2Ch 26:10 -For wa...

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Towers Scripture - 2 Chronicles 26:15

And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong....

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Walls in Smiths Bible Dictionary

Only a few points need be noticed. 1. The practice common in Israel of carrying foundations down to the solid rock, as in the case of the temple, with structures intended to be permanent. Lu 6:48 2. A feature of some parts of Solomon's buildings, as described by Josephus, corresponds remarkably to the method adopted at Nineveh of incrusting o...

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Walls Scripture - Ezekiel 41:13

So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;...

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Clay in Easton's Bible Dictionary

This word is used of sediment found in pits or in streets (Isa. 57:20; Jer. 38:60), of dust mixed with spittle (John 9:6), and of potter's clay (Isa. 41:25; Nah. 3:14; Jer. 18:1- 6; Rom. 9:21). Clay was used for sealing (Job 38:14; Jer. 32:14). Our Lord's tomb may have been thus sealed (Matt. 27:66). The practice of sealing doors with clay...

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