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Moneychangers in Smiths Bible Dictionary

Mt 21:12; Mr 11:15; Joh 2:15 According to Ex 30:13-15 every Israelite who had reached or passed the age of twenty must pay into the sacred treasury, whenever the nation was numbered, a half-shekel as an offering to Jehovah. The money-changers whom Christ, for their impiety, avarice and fraudulent dealing, expelled from the temple were the deal...

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Mourning in Naves Topical Bible

For the dead Head uncovered Le 10:6; 21:10 Lying on the ground 2Sa 12:16 Personal appearance neglected 2Sa 14:2 Cutting the flesh Le 19:28; 21:1-5; De 14:1; Jer 16:6,7; 41:5 Lamentations Ge 50:10; Ex 12:30; 1Sa 30:4; Jer 22:18; Mt 2:17,18 Fasting 1Sa 31:13; 2Sa 1:12; 3:35 -Priests prohibited, except for the nearest of kin Le 21:1-11 ...

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Mourning Scripture - Genesis 27:41

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob....

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Wailing Scripture - Revelation 18:19

And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate....

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Wailing Scripture - Micah 1:8

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls....

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Mules Scripture - 1 Kings 1:38

So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon....

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Music in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mu'-zik: I. IMPORTANCE 1. The Sole Art Cultivated 2. A Wide Vocabulary of Musical Terms 3. Place in Social and Personal Life 4. Universal Language of Emotions 5. Use in Divine Service 6. Part at Religious Reformations II. THEORY OF MUSIC 1. Dearth of Technical Information 2. Not Necessarily Unimpressive III. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 1. Strings 2. Winds ...

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Music Scripture - Habakkuk 3:19

The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments....

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Millstones Scripture - Judges 9:53

And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull....

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Moneychangers in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Matt. 21:12; Mark 11:15; John 2:15). Every Israelite from twenty years and upwards had to pay (Ex. 30:13-15) into the sacred treasury half a shekel every year as an offering to Jehovah, and that in the exact Hebrew half-shekel piece. There was a class of men, who frequented the temple courts, who exchanged at a certain premium foreign mon...

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