Smith's Bible Dictionary

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(dweller in God), the son of Nahor by Milcah; nephew of Abraham, and father of Rebekah,
(Genesis 22:22,23; 24:15,24,47; 28:2) In (Genesis 25:20) and (Genesis 28:5) he is called “Bethuel
the Syrian.”
Bethul
(dweller in God) a town of Simeon in the south named with Eltolad and Hormah, (Joshua 19:4)
called also Chesil and Bethuel. (Joshua 15:30; 1 Chronicles 4:30)
Bethzur
(house of rock) a town in the mountains of Judah, built by Jeroboam, (Joshua 15:58; 2 Chronicles
11:7) now Beit-zur. It commands the road from Beersheba and Hebron, which has always been
the main approach to Jerusalem from the south.
Betonim
a town of Gad, apparently on the northern boundary. (Joshua 13:26)
Betrothing
[Marriage.1]
Beulah
(married), the name which the land of Israel is to bear when “the land shall be married.” (Isaiah
62:4)
Bezai
(conqueror). “Children of Bezai,” to the number of 328, returned from captivity with Zerubbabel
(Ezra 2:17; Nehemiah 7:23; 10:18)
Bezaleel
(in the shadow of God).
•The son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah and one of the architects of the tabernacle.
(Exodus 31:1-6) His charge was chiefly in all works of metal, wood and stone. (B.C. 1490.)
•One of the sons of Pahath-moab who had taken a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:30) (B.C. 458.)
Bezek
(lightning).
•The residence of Adonibezek, (Judges 1:6) in the lot of Judah. ver. (Judges 1:3)
•Where Saul numbered the forces of Israel and Judah before going to the relief of Jabesh-gilead.
(1 Samuel 11:8) This was doubtless somewhere in the centre of the country, near the Jordan valley.
No identification of either place has been made in modern times.
Bezer
(gold ore), son of Zophah, one of the heads of the houses of Asher. (1 Chronicles 7:37)
Bezer In The Wilderness
a city of refuge in the downs on the east of the Jordan. (4:43; Joshua 20:8; 21:36; 1 Chronicles
6:78)
Bible
The Bible is the name given to the revelation of God to man contained in sixty-six books or
pamphlets, bound together and forming one book and only one, for it has in reality one author and
one purpose and plan, and is the development of one scheme of the redemption of man. I. ITS
Names.— (1) The Bible, i.e. The Book, from the Greek “ta biblia,” the books. The word is derived
from a root designating the inner bark of the linden tree, on which the ancients wrote their books.
It is the book as being superior to all other books. But the application of the word BIBLE to the
collected books of the Old and New Testaments is not to be traced farther back than the fifth century

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