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The Horites initially appear in the Torah as being members of a Canaanite coalition, who lived near the Sodom and Gomorrah. The coalition rebelled against Kedorlamer of Elam, who ruled them for twelve years. Kedorlamer attacked and subdued them in response ( Genesis 14:1–12 ). Later, according to Genesis 36, the Horites co-existed and inter ...
It has the U.S. flag on its leather cover and includes the texts of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the chorus of Greenwood's song "God Bless the USA" in Greenwood's handwriting. [1] [2] The text of the Bible was intended to be the New International Version, [3] but Zondervan ...
Mount Seir. Mount Seir ( Hebrew: הַר-שֵׂעִיר, romanized : Har Sēʿir) is the ancient and biblical name for a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern region of Edom and southeast of the Kingdom of Judah. It may also have marked the older historical limit of Ancient Egypt in Canaan. [ 1]
Tishbe. Tishbe, sometimes transliterated as Thisbe, [ 1] is a town mentioned in the Hebrew Bible 's First Book of Kings, 1 Kings 17:1, as the residence and possibly even birthplace of the prophet Elijah, known as the Tishbite (see that page for discussion of the term). It is placed by the biblical text in the historical region of Gilead, [ 2 ...
Matthew 16:2b–3 ( the signs of the times) is a passage within the second and third verses in the 16th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. It describes a confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees and Sadducees over their demand for a sign from heaven. It is one of several passages of the New Testament that are absent ...
Gilead or Gilad ( UK: / ˈɡɪliæd /, US: / ˈɡɪliəd /; [ 1][ 2] Hebrew: גִּלְעָד Gilʿāḏ, Arabic: جلعاد, Ǧalʻād, Jalaad) is the ancient, historic, biblical name of the mountainous northern part of the region of Transjordan. [ 3] The region is bounded in the west by the Jordan River, in the north by the deep ravine of the ...
In 2015, Trump also called the Bible his favorite book, but famously declined to share a favorite verse. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com Show comments
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms ...