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Evangelicalism’s most eminent scholars have labored over the Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible to make it an indispensable tool for all who study Scripture. The general editor, Walter Elwell, earned everyone’s respect with his Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. His associate editors are trusted authors and editors in their own right: Peter Craigie, J. D. Douglas, Robert Guelich, R. K. Harrison,...

time there were Amorites east of the Jordan as well (Nm 21:13). God had instructed Israel to go up from Horeb and conquer the mountain Amorites on the west side of the Jordan all the way to the Mediterranean Sea (Dt 1:7). When they arrived at Kadesh-barnea they were at the foot of those mountains (Dt 1:19, 20). But the people murmured and complained that God had brought them from Egypt only to be slaughtered by the Amorites. From the spies’ reports, they pictured the Amorites as an awesome people,
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