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 ...9 KB (1,479 words) - 22:57, 28 August 2021
- The Book of Judges (Hebrew: Sefer Shofetim ספר שופטים) refers ... The book revolves around the legends of these five major judges and ...19 KB (3,100 words) - 00:20, 19 November 2023
- destruction by Gideon's son Abimelech, the official installation ... from Jerusalem to the northern districts (Judges 21:19). It was in the hill ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- to the Philistine town of Gerar, where Abimelech was king. God appears to ... Abimelech places Isaac under his protection, and Isaac grows rich ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- 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. ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- * 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 ...24 KB (3,637 words) - 10:25, 26 September 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (4,203 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- 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 ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...36 KB (5,357 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- cities. Some of these kings were called “Abimelech,” which was initially ... existed and ad hoc leaders, or the "judges" of the biblical Book ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022