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Mourning Scripture - Ecclesiastes 7:4

The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools [is] in the house of mirth....

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Wailing Scripture - Jeremiah 9:20

Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation....

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Wailing Scripture - Jeremiah 9:18

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters....

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Mules Scripture - 1 Kings 1:44

And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:...

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Music in Naves Topical Bible

Teachers of 1Ch 15:22; 25:7,8; 2Ch 23:13 -Physical effect of, on man 1Sa 6:15,16 -Discoursed during the offering of sacrifices 2Ch 29:27,28 -Precentor Ne 12:42 -Chief musician Ne 12:42; Hab 3:19 -Chambers for musicians in the temple, in Ezekiel's vision Eze 40:44 -In heaven Re 5:8,9; 14:2,3; 15:2,3 -INSTRUMENTS OF Invented by Jubal ...

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Musical Instruments in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mu'-zi-kal in'-stroo-ments (shiddah we-shiddoth): "I gat me .... musical instruments, and that of all sorts" (Eccl 2:8). Thus the King James Version and the American Standard Revised Version; the English Revised Version and the American Revised Version margin "concubines very many." The word occurs only here; the meaning is not certain, but it...

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Millstones Scripture - Job 41:24

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone]....

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Moneychangers in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Kollubistes and kermatistes, both denoting dealers in small coin (kollubos and kerma the profit money, 1 1/2d.). They set up tables in the court of the Gentiles, to supply at a profit foreign Jews with the Jewish half shekels (1 shillings, 3 pence) required for the yearly payment into the temple treasury, in exchange for foreign coin. The "exc...

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Mourning Scripture - 2 Samuel 14:2

And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:...

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Mourning in Smiths Bible Dictionary

One marked feature of Oriental mourning is what may be called its studies publicity and the careful observance of the prescribed ceremonies. Ge 23:2; Job 1:20; 2:12 1. Among the particular forms observed the following may be mentioned: (a) Rending the clothes. Ge 37:29,34; 44:13 etc. (b) Dressing in sackcloth. Ge 37:34; 2Sa 3:31; 21:10 etc. (...

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