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Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ticulars of this trading company or car-avan, their character, course of traveland freight, though referring to a peri-od 1700 years before the Christian era,correspond with wonderful accuracy tothose of similar commercial expeditionsacross the desert at the present day. The balm is supposed to be the pro-duction of the balm-of-Gilead tree (Bnl-aamodendron Gileadevue), which growsabout 12 or 14 feet high, with divergingbranches. The resin which it producesis exceedingly odoriferous, and greatlyesteemed in the East for its healingproperties. It was once an important article ofmerchandise among the Eastern nations.Eze. 27 : 17. Nothing can exceed theeloquence and tenderness of the lan-guage employed by the prophet Jere-miah to express his grief and disap-97 BAM BAN pointment that the chosen people ofGod (the daughter of Zion) should re-main spiritually wounded and diseased,when there was a healing Balm of un-failing virtue and a Physician of divineskill to administer it, and both within
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Balm.(Balsamodendron Gileadense.Br. Birdwood.) After their reach. Jer. 8 : 22; 46 : 11 and51:8. BAMAH (high place), the name ap-plied to idolatrous places of worship.Eze. 20:29. BAMOTH (heights). See Bamoth- BAAL. BAMOTH-BAAL (heights of Baal), a place in Moab given to Reu-ben, Josh. 13 : 17. Conder suggests elMasl&biyeh, 5 miles south of ^ebo,98 BAND. A band of Roman soldiersconsisted of the tenth part of a legion,called a cohort; it varied, accord-ing to the size of the legion, from 400to 600 soldiers. Matt. 27:27; Acts 21:31, and elsewhere. BANI (6«i7*). 1. AGadite, one of Davidswarriors. 2 Sam. 23 : 36. 2. AJudite. lChr.9:4. 3. The names of sevenothers, mostly Levites.IChr. 6:46; Ezr. 2:10;10: 29, 34, 38; Neh. 3 :17; 8:7; 9:4; 10:14;11 : 22. BANISHMENT.See Punishment. BANK. See Money-changer. BANNER, EN-SIGN, STANDARDare translations of wordsused indiscriminately bythe sacred writers. Astandard pertained toeach of the four granddivisions of the host ofIsrael, Num. 1 : 52,dist

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