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Ur,

 

Sumerian: Urim; Sumerian Cuneiform: URI5KI, URIM2KI or URIM5KI;[2] Akkadian: Uru;[3] Arabic: أور‎; Hebrew: אור‎) was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (Arabic: تل المقير‎) in south Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate.

Although Ur was once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, the coastline has shifted and the city is now well inland, on the south bank of the Euphrates, 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) from Nasiriyah in modern-day Iraq.[5]

The city dates from the Ubaid period circa 3800 BC, and is recorded in written history as a city-state from the 26th century BC, its first recorded king being Mesannepada. The city's patron deity was Nanna (in Akkadian, Sin), the Sumerian and Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god's name. UNUGKI, literally "the abode (UNUG) of Nanna".[5]

The site is marked by the partially restored ruins of the Ziggurat of Ur, which contained the shrine of Nanna, excavated in the 1930s. The temple was built in the 21st century BC (short chronology), during the reign of Ur-Nammu and was reconstructed in the 6th century BC by Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon. The ruins cover an area of 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) northwest to southeast by 800 metres (2,600 ft) northeast to southwest and rise up to about 20 metres (66 ft) above the present plain level.[6]

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churl

(churl)n. 1. A rude, boorish person. See Synonyms at boor. 2. A miserly person. 3.   A ceorl. A medieval English peasant.[Middle English, from Old English ceorl, peasant.]

 

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con-tend

(kn-tend)v. con-tend-ed, con-tend-ing, contends.v. intr. 1. To strive in opposition or against difficulties; struggle: armies contending for control of strategic territory; had to contend with long lines at the airport. 2. To compete, as in a race; vie. 3. To strive in controversy or debate; dispute. See Synonyms at discuss.v. tr. To maintain or assert: The defense contended that the evidence was inadmissible.[Middle English contenden, from Latin contendere : com-, com- + tendere, to stretch, strive. See ten-.]--con-tend'er n.

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re-prove

(ri-proov)v. tr. re-proved, re-prov-ing, re-proves. 1. To voice or convey disapproval of; rebuke. See Synonyms at admonish. 2. To find fault with.[Middle English reproven, from Anglo-Norman repruver, variant of Old French reprover, from Late Latin reprobare, to disapprove. See REPROBATE.]--re-prov'a-ble adj. --re-prov'er n. --re-prov'ing-ly adv.

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first-ling

(furstling)n. 1. The first of a kind or category. 2. A first-born offspring.

 

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bow-el

(boul, boul)n. 1.  Often bowels. The intestine. A part or division of the intestine: the large bowel. 2.   bowels. The interior of something: in the bowels of the ship. 3.   bowels. Archaic. The seat of pity or the gentler emotions.[Middle English, from Old French boel, from Latin botellus, small intestine, diminutive of botulus, sausage.]

 

 

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And Lamech

said unto

his

wives,

 

Adah

and Zillah,

 

Hear my voice;

 

ye

wives

 

of

Lamech,

 

hearken unto

my

speech:

 

**

O

that ye

would altogether hold your peace!

 

and it

should

be

your wisdom.

 

Hear now

my

reasoning,

 

and hearken

to the

 pleadings

of

my lips.

 

Will ye

speak wickedly

for God?

 

and talk deceitfully

for him?

 

Will ye

accept his person?

 

will ye

contend

for God?

 

Is it good

that he

should search you out?

 

or as

one man

mocketh another,

 

do

ye so

mock him?

 

He

will surely reprove you,

 

if ye

do secretly accept persons.

 

Shall not

his

excellency make you afraid?

 

and his dread fall upon you?

 

 

***

 

Ye

shall not eat

of

every tree

of

the garden?

      

Ye

 shall not eat

of

it,

 

neither shall

ye

touch

it,

 

lest ye die.

 

**

touch no unclean thing;

 

go ye

out of

the midst

of

her;

 

be ye clean,

 

that bear

the

vessels

of the

Lord.

 

For ye

shall not go out

with haste,

 

nor go

by

flight:

 

for the Lord

will

go before you;

 

**

I am

the God

of

Abraham

thy

father:

 

fear not,

 

for

I am

with thee,

 

**

And

I

will turn

my

hand upon thee,

 

and purely purge away

thy

dross,

and take away

all

thy tin:

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Tin is the essential ingredient for the production of Bronze.

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weapons of entire armies with metal weapons, though Bronze Age Egyptian armies were sometimes fully equipped with bronze weapons. Ancient swords are often found.

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And I

will restore thy judges as at the first,

and thy

counsellors as at the beginning:

afterward thou shalt be called,

The city of righteousness,

the faithful city.

 

**

 

and will bless thee,

 

and multiply

thy seed

for

my

servant Abraham's sake.

**

 

 

and the

God

of

Israel

will

be your

rearward.

 

Behold,

my

servant shall deal prudently,

 

he

shall be exalted

and extolled,

 

and be

very high.

 

**

And God

said,

*

 

But flesh

 

with

 

the life

thereof,

shall ye not eat.

 

**

 

And

he

shall lay

 

his hand

upon

 

the head

of

it,

 

and kill

it

before the tabernacle

of the

congregation:

 

and the

sons of Aaron

shall sprinkle

the blood

thereof

upon

the altar

round about.

 

And he shall

offer thereof

his

offering,

 

even an

offering

 

made

 

by

fire

 unto the Lord;

 

**

And Abel,

he also

brought

of the

firstlings

 

of

his flock

and

of

the

fat thereof.

 

And the Lord had respect

unto

Abel

 

and

to

his

offering:

**

According to the second Book of Kings, after the death of Ahab, king of Israel, Mesha, the king of Moab (see Mesha Stele), threw off allegiance to the king of Israel. Ahab's successor, Jehoram, in seeking to regain his supremacy over Moab, entered into an alliance with Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and with the king of Edom. The three kings lead their armies against Mesha, who was driven back to seek refuge in Kir-haraseth. The Moabites were driven to despair. Mesha then took his eldest son, who would have reigned in his stead, and sacrificed him as a burnt-offering on the wall of the fortress in the sight of the allied armies. “There was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land(s).” The invaders evacuated the land of Moab, and Mesha achieved the independence of his country (2 Kings 3:20-3:27).[3] Josephus said the kings pitied the need which the Moabite monarch had felt when he offered up his child, and so withdrew.[4]

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Wherefore

my bowels

shall sound like

an harp

for Moab, . . .

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But this

shall be the covenant

that I

will make with

the house of Israel;

 

After those days,

saith the Lord,

 

I

will put

my law

in

their

inward parts,

 

and write

it in

their hearts;

 

and will

be

their God,

 

and they

shall be

my people.

 

**

. . . and mine

inward parts

for

Kirharesh.

**

 

the fat

that

covereth

the inwards,

 

and all

the

fat that

is

upon the inwards,

 

**

When ye come

to

appear before

me,

**

 

And the Lord

appeared unto Abram,

 

and said,

Unto thy seed

will

I

give this land:

 

and there

builded

he

an

altar unto the Lord,

who

appeared unto him.

***

who hath

required

this

at

your hand,

to

tread my courts?

 

Bring no more vain oblations;

 

incense

is an

abomination unto me;

 

the new moons

and sabbaths,

the calling

of

assemblies,

 

I

cannot away with;

 

it is

inequity,

even the solemn meeting.

 

Your new moons

and your appointed feasts

my soul

hateth:

 

they

are a trouble unto

me;

 

I am

weary to bear them.

 

**

which

is

the blood thereof,

 

shall ye not eat.

And surely your blood

of

your lives will

 

I

require;

 

at the

hand

 

of

every beast will

I

require

it,

 

and at

the

hand

of

man;

 

at the

hand

of

every man's brother will

 

I

require

the

life of man.

 

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And Haran

died

before

 

his

father

Terah

in

the land

of

his

nativity,

 

**

Therefore shall

a man

leave his father

and his mother,

 

and shall cleave unto

his wife:

 

and they shall

be

one flesh.

**

 

And God

said,

 

Let

there

 

be

light:

 

and there

was light.

 

And God

saw

the light,

 

that it

was

good:

 

and God

divided

the light from

the

darkness.

 

And the

evening

 

and the

morning

 

were the

first day.

 

 

 

That the sons

of

God

saw

the

daughters

of

men

that they

 

were fair;

 

and they

 

took

them wives

of

all which

 

they chose.

 

*

And the eyes

of

them both were opened,

 

and they knew

that they

were naked;

 

and they

sewed fig leaves together,

 

and made themselves aprons.

*

 

And Abram

 

and Nahor

 

took

them wives:

 

the name

of

Abram's wife

was Sarai;

 

*

 

and the name

of

Nahor's wife,

 

Milcah,

 

the daughter

of

 

Haran,

 

the

 father of Milcah,

 

and the father

of

Iscah.

*

 

And

the

Lord

said,

 

 My spirit

shall not

always

strive with man,

 

for

that he

also is flesh:

 

**

That

in

 

blessing

 

I  

 

will bless

thee,

 

and

in

multiplying

 

I

will

multiply

 

thy

seed as the stars

 

of

 

the

heaven,

 

and as

the sand which

is

upon

the

sea shore;

 

and thy

seed

shall possess

the gate

of

 

his

enemies;

 

And

in

 thy seed

 

shall all the nations

of the

 earth be blessed;

 

because

thou hast

obeyed my voice.

 

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For though

thy

people

Israel

be as the sand

of the

sea,

 

yet

a remnant

of

them shall return:

 

the

consumption

decreed

shall overflow

with

 

righteousness.

 

*

 

yet

his

days shall

be

an hundred

and twenty years.

and the

father

of

Iscah.

      

There were giants

in the

earth

 

in

those days;

and also

and the

father

of

Iscah.

 

after that,

when the sons

of

God

came in unto the daughters of men,

and they bare children to them,

the same became mighty men which were of old,

men of renown.

 

*

But Sarai

was barren;

 

she

had no child.

 

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