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Cisterns Scripture - Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water....

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City in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Cain first founded one (Genesis 4:16-17). The material civilization of the Cainite race was superior to that of the Sethite. To the former belonged many inventions of useful arts and luxury (Genesis 4:20-22). Real refinement and moral civilization are by no means necessary concomitants of material civilization; in these the Sethites took the l...

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Chariot Scripture - 1 Chronicles 18:4

And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them an hundred chariots....

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Circumcision in Naves Topical Bible

Institution of Ge 17:10-14; Le 12:3; Joh 7:22; Ac 7:8; Ro 4:11 -A seal of righteousness Ro 2:25-29; 4:11 -Performed on all males on the eighth day Ge 17:12,13; Le 12:3; Php 3:5 -Rite of, observed on the Sabbath Joh 7:23 -A prerequisite of the privileges of the passover Ex 12:48 -Child named at the time of Ge 21:3,4; Lu 1:59; 2:21 -Negle...

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Circumcision Scripture - John 7:22

Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man....

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Chariot Scripture - 2 Chronicles 1:14

And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem....

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Cistern in Smiths Bible Dictionary

a receptacle for water, either conducted from an external spring or proceeding from rain-fall. The dryness of the summer months and the scarcity of springs in Judea made cisterns a necessity, and they are frequent throughout the whole of Syria and Israel. On the long-forgotten way from Jericho to Bethel, "broken cisterns" of high antiquity are...

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City in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

sit'-i (`ir, qiryah; polis): I. THE CANAANITE CITY 1. Origin 2. Extent 3. Villages 4. Sites 5. External Appearance 6. General II. THE CITY OF THE JEWISH OCCUPATION 1. Tower or Stronghold 2. High Place 3. Broad Place 4. Streets 5. General Characteristics III. STORE CITIES IV. LEVITICAL CITIES LITERATURE I. The Canaanite City. 1. Origin: The develop...

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Villages in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

chatser, an enclosure of huts; chatserot; from a root "to enclose"; unwalled suburbs outside of walled towns (Joshua 13:23; Joshua 13:28; Joshua 15:32; Leviticus 25:31; Leviticus 25:34). The Jehalin Arabs arrange their tents in a circle for security against attack; the village huts were often perhaps similarly arranged. Cities are often mentio...

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Circumcision in Smiths Bible Dictionary

was peculiarly, though not exclusively, a Jewish rite. It was enjoined upon Abraham, the father of the nation, by God, at the institution and as the token of the covenant, which assured to him and his descendants the promise of the Messiah. Gen. 17. It was thus made a necessary condition of Jewish nationality. Every male child was to be circum...

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