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Smith's Bible Dictionary
support for the bedding. Besides we have bedsteads made of ivory, wood, etc. referred to in (3:11;
Amos 6:4) The ornamental portions were pillars and a canopy, Judith 13:9, ivory carvings, gold
and silver, and probably mosaic work, purple and fine linen. (Esther 1:6; Song of Solomon 3:9,10)
The ordinary furniture of a bedchamber in private life is given in (2 Kings 4:10)
Bedad
(solitary), the father of Hadad king of Edom. (Genesis 36:35; 1 Chronicles 1:46) (B.C. before
1093.)
Bedan
(son of judgement).
•Mentioned in (1 Samuel 12:11) as a judge of Israel between Jerubbaal (Gideon) and Jephthah.
The Chaldee Paraphrase reads Samson for Bedan; the LXX., Syriac and Arabic all have Barak.
Ewald suggests that it may be a false reading for Abdon. (B.C. about 1150.)
•The son of Gilead. (1 Chronicles 7:17)
Bedeiah
one of the sons of Bani, in the time of Ezra, who had taken a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:35) (B.C.
458.)
Bee
(deborah). (1:44; Judges 14:8; Psalms 118:12; Isaiah 7:18) Bees abounded in Palestine, honey
being a common article of food (Psalms 81:16) and was often found in the clefts of rocks and in
hollow trees. (1 Samuel 14:25,27) English naturalists know little of the species of bees that are
found in Palestine, but are inclined tn believe that the honey-bee of Palestine is distinct from the
honey-bee (Apis mellifica) of this country. The passage in (Isaiah 7:18) refers “to the custom of
the people in the East of calling attention to any one by a significant hiss or rather hist .” We read,
(Judges 14:8) that “after a time,” probably many days, Samson returned to the carcass of the lion
he had slain, and saw bees and honey therein. “If any one here represents to himself a corrupt and
putrid carcass, the occurrence ceases to have any true similitude, for it is well known that in these
countries, at certain seasons of the year, the heat will in the course of twenty-four hours completely
dry up the moisture of dead camels, and that, without their undergoing decomposition their bodies
long remain like mummies, unaltered and entirely free from offensive odor.”—Edmann .
Beeliada
(the Lord knows); one of David’s 9 sons, born in Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 14:7) In the lists in
Samuel the name is Eliada. (B.C. after 1045.)
Beelzebub
[See Beelzebul]
Beelzebul
(lord of the house), the title of a heathen deity, to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of
the evil spirits; Satan, the prince of the devils. (Matthew 10:25; 12:24; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15) ff.
The correct reading is without doubt Beelzebul, and not Beelzebub .
Beer
(a well).
•One of the latest halting-places of the Israelites, lying beyond the Arnon. (Numbers 21:16-18)
This is possibly the BEER-ELIM of (Isaiah 15:8)
•A place to which Jotham, the son of Gideon, fled for fear of his brother Abimelech. (Judges 9:21)
Beera
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