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Achan Man who sinned by secretly keeping some of the plunder from Jericho |
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Ai The second city that Israel attacked in Canaan |
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Amorites Another name for the Canaanites |
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Assyria Enemy neighbor nation of Israel that conquered the northern tribes |
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Babylonia Enemy neighbor nation of Israel that conquered the southern tribes (Judah) |
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Charam Hebrew word meaning to devote wholly to the Lord, or to destroy in devotion to the Lord |
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Cisjordan The land of Canaan west of the Jordan River |
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Gibeonites People who lived in the heart of Canaan, but deceived Israel into making a peace treaty with them by claiming that they were from outside of Canaan |
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Jericho The first city that Israel conquered in Canaan |
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Jordan Name of the river bordering Canaan, that the Israelites crossed to enter the Promised Land. |
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Joshua In Hebrew, this is the same as the name "Jesus." |
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Judah The most prominent tribe in Israel, destined to be the royal tribe |
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Manasseh Son of Joseph. He and his brother Ephraim received tribal allotments in the place of Levi (who received no land) and Joseph. Half of his tribe received land west of the Jordan, and the other half received land east of the Jordan. |
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Pentateuch The first five books of the Bible |
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Phinehas He led the delegation from the Cisjordan tribes to resolve the potential conflict with the tribes in Transjordan regarding the altar they had built. When he heard their explanation of why they built the altar, he called for peace. He was a son of Eleazar the priest. |
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Primary History Phrase used by Bible scholars to refer to the history that stretches from Genesis through Kings |
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Rahab Prostitute from Jericho who protected the spies from Israel, was saved when Israel attacked, and became part of the Jewish people. |
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Talmud An important Jewish text that is basically a record of rabbinical teachings on the Hebrew Scriptures, especially the law, spanning roughly the first six centuries after the time of Christ. |
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Transjordan The land east of the Jordan that belonged to Israel |
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