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2. Elam, son of Shem - Wikipedia

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   Elam as a personal name also refers to other figures appearing in the Hebrew Bible: Elam is a son of Shashak of the tribe of Benjamin in 1 Chronicles 8:24 . Elam is the son of Meshelemiah, a Levite of the family of Kohath in 1 Chronicles 26:3. Elam is the ancestor of a family that returned with Zerubbabel in Ezra 2:1-2,7.

3. Elim (place) - Wikipedia

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   Elim (Hebrew: אֵילִם, romanized: ʾĒlīm), according to the Hebrew Bible, was one of the places where the Israelites camped following the Exodus from Egypt. It is referred to in Exodus 15:27 and Numbers 33:9 as a place where "there were twelve wells of water and seventy date palms," and that the Israelites "camped there near the waters".

4. Bathsheba - Wikipedia

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   2000 The biblical commentary anthology Really Bad Girls of the Bible by Liz Curtis Higgs contains a contemporary-setting story based on the first part of 2 Samuel 11, then discusses the biblical story in the following commentary segment. 2011 Jill Eileen Smith's Bathsheba: A Novel (The Wives of King David),

5. Eli (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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   Later biblical passages mention the fortunes of several of Eli's descendants. Eli occupies a prominent place in Samaritan religious tradition , as the Samaritans attribute the schism between their community and the Jews to Eli's establishment of a rival shrine at Shiloh , challenging what they regard as the original Israelite sacred site, Mount ...

6. Uriah the Hittite - Wikipedia

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   Uriah the Hittite (Hebrew: אוּרִיָּה הַחִתִּי ‎ ʾŪrīyyā haḤīttī) is a minor figure in the Hebrew Bible, mentioned in the Books of Samuel, an elite soldier in the army of David, king of Israel and Judah, and the husband of Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam. While Uriah was serving in David's army abroad, David, from the ...

7. Ammiel - Wikipedia

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   The name Ammiel (Hebrew: עַמִּיאֵל ‘Ammī’ēl) may refer to several people in the Hebrew Bible. Etymologically, it means "people of God", [1] and is used for the following individuals: Ammiel, son of Gemalli, one of the twelve spies sent by Moses to search the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:12). He was one of the ten who perished by ...

8. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

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   In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...

9. Genocide in the Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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   Many [neutrality is disputed] scholars interpret the book of Joshua as referring to what would now be considered genocide. [1] When the Israelites arrive in the Promised Land, they are commanded to annihilate "the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites" who already lived there, to avoid being tempted into idolatry. [2]