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Villages Scripture - Acts 8:25

And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans....

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Gates Scripture - Deuteronomy 17:8

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, [being] matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;...

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Tower in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

tou'-er. See FORTIFICATION, I, 5; CITY, II, 1....

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Towers Scripture - 2 Chronicles 32:5

Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance....

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City Walls in Naves Topical Bible

Of Bashan, destroyed by the Israelites De 3:5,6 -Of Jericho Jos 2:15; 6 -Of Jerusalem See JERUSALEM -Of Babylon Jer 51:44 -Broad Jer 51:58 -Of Beth-shan 1Sa 31:10 -Of Rabbah 2Sa 11:20 -Of Abel 2Sa 20:15,21 -Houses built upon Jos 2:15 -Double 2Ki 25:4; Isa 22:11 -Sentinels on See WATCHMAN -FIGURATIVE Of the new Jerusalem Re 2...

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Walls Scripture - 1 Chronicles 29:4

[Even] three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses [withal]:...

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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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