Search results for "Abimelech (Judges)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • a judge appearing in the biblical Book of Judges. He was the son of Joash ... Gideon was one of the more significant judges whose story is recorded ...
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  • The Book of Judges (Hebrew: Sefer Shofetim ספר שופטים) refers ... The book revolves around the legends of these five major judges and ...
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  • destruction by Gideon's son Abimelech, the official installation ... from Jerusalem to the northern districts (Judges 21:19). It was in the hill ...
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  • to the Philistine town of Gerar, where Abimelech was king. God appears to ... Abimelech places Isaac under his protection, and Isaac grows rich ...
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  • over, but had yet to conquer. However, Judges 3:1-3 lists these same territories ... and Israelites particularly in the Book of Judges and the Books of Samuel. ...
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  • * The oath of Abraham and Abimelech (well of the oath) * The seven ... * The oath of Isaac and Abimelech (well of the oath) * The seven ewes ...
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  • as early as the period of the Book of Judges, we find references to a ... continues to lure them. The period of the judges is summarized as one in which ...
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  • Egypt, especially Rib-Addi of Byblos and Abimelech of Tyre, but between 1350 ... most often as Sidonians (Gen. x. 15; Judges iii. 3; x. 6, xviii. 7; I ...
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  • and Gomorrah (Genesis xix. 24-26) When King Abimelech destroyed the city of Shechem, held to have occurred in the thirteenth century B.C.E., he is ...
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  • cities. Some of these kings were called “Abimelech,” which was initially ... existed and ad hoc leaders, or the "judges" of the biblical Book ...
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