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... to contend successfully with the Israelites, notwithstanding the superiority of position in the hills to the advantage of the latter. H. Porter PALESTINE, at first this word was applied only to ...
https://bibleatlas.org/philistia.htm
... of En-gedi, but were easily defeated as they came up from the gorges to occupy the advantageous field of battle chosen by Jehoshaphat. George Frederick Wright ...
https://bibleatlas.org/wildgoats'_rocks.htm
... fertility of the soil, the great variety in climate and vegetation, together with its commercial advantages in location, the city soon rose to great wealth and importance. Greater fame, however ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cyrene.htm
... former slaves and dependents, or of strangers who had been attracted to Rome by the obvious advantages for industry and trade. They enjoyed the franchise as members of the military assembly (comitia ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rome.htm
... redemptive purpose was to be wrought out in the world, no less than the mere secular advantage of the firstborn son's chief share in the father's temporal possessions. Though Esau had so recklessly ...
https://bibleatlas.org/esau.htm
... breadths of fertile land where wheat, grapes, figs, pomegranates and olives are grown to advantage. The northern district is known today by the name el-Jebal, corresponding to the ancient Gebal ...
https://bibleatlas.org/idumea.htm
... of En-gedi, but were easily defeated as they came up from the gorges to occupy the advantageous field of battle chosen by Jehoshaphat. George Frederick Wright EN-GE'DI, on the w. shore ...
https://bibleatlas.org/engedi.htm
... location, therefore, favored its religious, political and commercial development, and presented a most advantageous field for the missionary labors of Paul. The city stood upon the sloping sides and at ...
https://bibleatlas.org/ephesus.htm
... the most thrilling part of the work of Thucydides (vi, vii) . Dionysius took advantage of the fear inspired by the Carthaginians to elevate himself to despotic power in 405 B.C. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/syracuse.htm
... an encounter with the badly armed Israelites in a position where superior numbers would be of little advantage. It was while the armies lay thus facing each other across the gorge that Jonathan and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/michmash.htm
... build him a house, apparently without solicitation. The friendly connection between the two kingdoms was advantageous to both, since David and Solomon needed the timber and the skilled artisans that Hiram could ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tyre.htm
... dealings they were often unscrupulous, and their greed of gain often led them to take unfair advantage of the barbarous races with whom they came in contact. The purchase of the land on ...
https://bibleatlas.org/phoenicia.htm
... to those influences upon the human actors that led them to place themselves where they could take advantage of the natural opportunity. Or, there is no a priori difficulty in supposing that the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/red_sea.htm
... breadths of fertile land where wheat, grapes, figs, pomegranates and olives are grown to advantage. The northern district is known today by the name el-Jebal, corresponding to the ancient Gebal ...
https://bibleatlas.org/edom.htm
... to those influences upon the human actors that led them to place themselves where they could take advantage of the natural opportunity. Or, there is no a priori difficulty in supposing that the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sea_of_egypt.htm
... and Nebuchadnezzar. In 609 when Assyria was in the death grapple with Babylonia, Pharaoh-necoh took advantage of the situation, invaded Syria, and, defeating Josiah en route, marched to Carchemish ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mesopotamia.htm
... and Nebuchadnezzar. In 609 when Assyria was in the death grapple with Babylonia, Pharaoh-necoh took advantage of the situation, invaded Syria, and, defeating Josiah en route, marched to Carchemish ...
https://bibleatlas.org/syria.htm
... and Nebuchadnezzar. In 609 when Assyria was in the death grapple with Babylonia, Pharaoh-necoh took advantage of the situation, invaded Syria, and, defeating Josiah en route, marched to Carchemish ...
https://bibleatlas.org/aram-maacah.htm
... to those influences upon the human actors that led them to place themselves where they could take advantage of the natural opportunity. Or, there is no a priori difficulty in supposing that the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/waheb.htm
... and Nebuchadnezzar. In 609 when Assyria was in the death grapple with Babylonia, Pharaoh-necoh took advantage of the situation, invaded Syria, and, defeating Josiah en route, marched to Carchemish ...
https://bibleatlas.org/aram.htm
