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A Dictionary of the Bible: Including Biography, Natural History, Geography, Topography, Archæology, and Literature is unavailable, but you can change that!

This thorough Bible dictionary by renowned nineteenth-century scholar and church historian Philip Schaff provides well-researched articles to guide you through the Bible. Schaff provides comprehensive research on each article, including cross-references across the biblical canon and modern studies in the fields of natural history, mineralogy, geography, topography, archaeology, literature,...

7. One of the Rechabites. Jer. 35:3. 8. JEREMIAH, one of the four great prophets. He was the son of Hilkiah of Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin. Jer. 1:1, and lived under various kings from Josiah to the Captivity. In the English Version he is, by unnecessary variation, called “Jeremy” in Matt. 2:17, and “Jeremias,” Matt. 16:14. “There is no one in the ‘goodly fellowship of the prophets’ of whom, in his work, feelings, and sufferings, we have so distinct a knowledge, although it is derived almost
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