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Jahaziel

(Encyclopedia)Jahaziel jəhāˈzēĕl, jāˌhāzīˈəl, jāhăzˈēĕl [key], in the Bible. 1 Man who joined David at Ziklag. 2 One who inspired Jehoshaphat to oppose the invading Ammonites. 3 Priest before the Ar...

Obed

(Encyclopedia)Obed ōˈbĕd [key], in the Bible. 1 David's grandfather. 2 Father of Azariah (18.) 3 Gatekeeper at the Temple. ...

Adullam

(Encyclopedia)Adullam ədŭlˈəm [key], in the Bible, border town of Judah, SW of Jerusalem. David hid in the Cave of Adullam when he fled from Saul. From here three of his men went to get him water from the well ...

Tamar

(Encyclopedia)Tamar tāˈmär [key], in the Bible. 1 Mother of Judah's twin sons Pharez and Zerah. An alternate spelling is Thamar. 2 Daughter of David and Maachah. She was the victim of her half-brother Amnon's pa...

Thompson , river, Canada

(Encyclopedia)Thompson, river, 304 mi (489 km) long, formed by the junction of the North Thompson and the South Thompson rivers at Kamloops, S British Columbia, and flowing W and S to the Fraser River at Lytton. Th...

Barzillai

(Encyclopedia)Barzillai bärzĭlˈāī [key], in the Bible. 1 Chief in Gilead who was friendly to David. 2 The father-in-law of Saul's daughter Merab. ...

Eznite

(Encyclopedia)Eznite ĕzˈnīt [key], ostensibly an epithet of Adino (one of David's men) in Second Samuel. The name with its qualifier is translated in the parallel passage in First Chronicles as “he lifted up h...

Gath

(Encyclopedia)Gath găth [key], unidentified royal city of the Philistines, on the borders of Judah. In the Bible, it was the birthplace of Goliath, and it was a place of refuge for David in the outlaw years. Later...

Jozabad

(Encyclopedia)Jozabad jōˈzəbăd [key], in the Bible. 1, 2 Two of David's captains. 3, 4 Important Levites. 5 Man who had married a foreigner. 6, 7, 8, 9 Levites in the return from the Exile. These four may be id...

List, Benjamin

(Encyclopedia)List, Benjamin, 1968–, b. Frankfurt, Germany. German chemist, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and Professor of organic...