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Chebar
Chebar , in the Bible, river of Mesopotamia, by which captive Jews were settled.... Read more |
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Isaiah
Isaiah , prophetic book of the Bible. It is a collection of prophecies from a 300-year period attributed to Isaiah, who may have been a priest. Some scholars argue that a long-lived "school" of Isaiah preserved his oracles and supplemented them in succeeding centuries. He received his call to... Read more |
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John Williams (United States)
John Williams 1664-1729, American clergyman, b. Roxbury, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1683. In 1686 he became the first minister at Deerfield, Mass. During the great Native American massacre at that frontier town in Feb., 1704, he and his family were taken captive. Two of his children were murdered, and... Read more |
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Otterburn
Otterburn village, Northumberland, N England. It was the scene of a victory (1388) of the Scots over the English. The engagement, in which Sir Henry Percy was taken captive, is the subject of the English ballad "Chevy Chase" and the Scots ballad "Otterburn."... Read more |
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Zephaniah
Zephaniah , in the Bible. 1 Prophet, author of the book of Zephaniah . 2 Father of Hen . 3 Father of Josiah 2. 4 Singer. 5 Important priest at the time of the Captivity.... Read more |
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Captivity narratives
CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES. Rachel Parker Plummer, daughter of the Reverend James Parker, was captured along with her young son when Comanches attacked Fort Parker, Texas, on 19 May 1836. She witnessed the torture of her son James Pratt, who was taken from her, and she never... Read more |
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Captivity
68. Captivity See also 335. PUNISHMENT ; 371. SLAVERY . coarctation 1. Obsolete, the act of confining, as in a narrow space. 2. restriction of liberty. infibulation the process of confining with a buckle or padlock. See also 364. SEX . oubliette a secret place of imprisonment,... Read more |
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Babylonian captivity
Babylonian captivity in the history of Israel, the period from the fall of Jerusalem (586 BC) to the reconstruction in Palestine of a new Jewish state (after 538 BC). After the capture of the city by the Babylonians some thousands, probably selected for their prosperity and importance, were... Read more |
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