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Ophrah - This Ophrah is perhaps identical with Ephron (2 Chronicles 13:19 ) and Ephraim (2 Samuel 13:23 ; John 11:54 ). Jerome located Ophrah five Roman miles east of Bethel. This Ophrah was the home of Gideon
Jehovah-Shalom - Jehovah send peace, the name which Gideon gave to the altar he erected on the spot at Ophrah where the angel appeared to him (Judges 6:24 )
Epher - Related to Ophrah, Gideon's native place in Manasseh W
Jehovah-Shalom - ” Name Gideon gave to the altar he built at Ophrah (Judges 6:24 )
Shual, Land of - The close connexion of Ophrah with the district named indicates that this was one of its towns
Ophrah - Ophrah. Ophrah ‘that pertaineth unto Joash the Abiezrite’ i
Ophrah - Ophrah of the Abiezrites, Gideon's place of birth (Judges 6:11-24; Judges 8:32; Judges 9:5), residence, and burial. 1 Chronicles 4:14, "Meonothai begat (or else founded) Ophrah" of Judah
Ophrah - Ophrah (ŏf'rah), female fawn. Ophrah of the Abi-ezerite
Beth-le-Aphrah - KJV reads, “house of Aphrah”; NIV, “Beth Ophrah
Shual, the Land of - In the same direction as Ophrah, Taiyibeh; therefore N
Jehovah Shalom - ) Gideon so-called his altar of thanksgiving (not sacrifice) in Ophrah, to commemorate the angel of Jehovah's salutation, "Peace be unto thee"; where rather judgment for national backslidings was to have been expected, and when he himself had feared death, as having seen the angel of Jehovah
Aphrah - (af' ruh) KJV interpretation of place name in Micah 1:10 , also called Beth Ophrah (NIV) or Beth-le-aphrah (RSV; NAS); or Beth Leaphrah (TEV)
Tabor - A place near Ophrah ( Judges 8:18 )
Ephra - A city of Ephraim; perhaps the same as Ophrah
e'Phra-in - ( 2 Chronicles 13:19 ) It has been conjectured that this Ephrain or Ephron is identical with the Ephraim by which Absalom's sheep-farm of Baal-hazor was situated; with the city called Ephraim near the wilderness in which our Lord lived for some time; and with Ophrah, a city of Benjamin, apparently not far from Bethel
Ophrah - Identified by some with Fer'ata, the old name of which was Ophrah
Ephraim (2) - Thus, Ophrah of Benjamin probably is identical with Ephraim (1 Samuel 13:17
Abiezer - According to Judges 6:24 ; Judges 8:32 , the Abiezrites were settled at Ophrah; they were the first to obey the summons of Joshua to fight against the Midianites
Ophrah - He then assumed the function of high priest, and sought to make Ophrah what Shiloh should have been
Abiezer - Territory belonging to clan of Abiezer of tribe of Manasseh located in southwest part of Manasseh's territory and including towns of Elmattan, Ophrah, and Tetel
Oph'Rah - ...
More fully, Ophrah OF THE ABIEZRITES, the native place of Gideon (Judges 6:11 ) and the scene of his exploits against Baal, ver
Abiezer - of Jordan; for Joash the Abiezrite lived in Ophrah, which seems to have been on a hill, facing from the S
Salem - Hence when Gideon was visited by the angel under the oak at Ophrah, at the close of the interview he built an altar unto the Lord, and called it Jehovah Shalomâthat is, as the margin of the Bible renders it, the Lord send peace
Pahath Moab - Ophrah (1 Chronicles 4:14) is related to Orpah (Ruth 1:4)
ze'Bah - The people fled in dismay, and Gideon captured the two kings and brought them to his native village, Ophrah where he slew them because they had killed his brothers
Gideon or Jerubbaal - He resided in Ophrah, east of the Jordan, a region often ravaged in harvest-time by the wandering tribes on its eastern border
Gideon - He was of the family of Abiezer (Joshua 17:2 ; 1 Chronicles 7:18 ), and of the little township of Ophrah (Judges 6:11 ). (See Ophrah
Ephron - It is apparently identical with Ophrah in Benjamin (Joshua 18:23 ; 1 Samuel 13:17 ), located at et-Taiyibeh about four miles north of Bethel
Gideon - youngest son of Joash, whose family lived at Ophrah, Judges 6:15, in the territory of Manasseh, near Shechem
Ephraim - ...
The TOWN called Ephraim, to which the Savior withdrew from his enemies, John 11:54 , was probably the same place mentioned in 2 Chronicles 13:19 , and called Ophrah in Joshua 18:23 1 Samuel 13:17
Gideon - The son of Joash, a Manassite; he dwelt in Ophrah, a place hitherto unidentified, which belonged to the clan of the Abiezrites. ] command he destroys the altar of Baal in Ophrah and builds one to Jahweh, to whom he also offers sacrifice. ...
The offer of the kingship , Judges 8:22-28 : On the Israelites offering to Gideon and his descendants the kingship, Gideon declines it on theocratic grounds, but asks instead for part of the gold from the spoil taken from the Midianites; of this he makes an image ( ephod ), which he sets up at Ophrah, and which becomes the cause of apostasy from Jahweh
Joash - He was a member of the tribe of Manasseh who lived at Ophrah
Jotham - Gideon's youngest son; escaped when his 69 brothers were killed at Ophrah by their half brother Abimelech
Gid'Eon - (he that cuts down ), youngest son of Joash of the Abiezrites, an undistinguished family who lived at Ophrah, a town probably on the west of Jordan, ( Judges 6:15 ) in the territory of Manasseh, near Shechem
Gideon - In Gideon’s home town of Ophrah, Gideon’s father was caretaker of the local Baal shrine, but when Gideon began his reformation, his father became the first convert
Abimelech - One of his first acts was to murder his brothers, seventy in number, "on one stone," at Ophrah
Gideon - Of Manasseh; youngest son of Joash, of the Abiezrite family at Ophrah (Judges 6:11; Judges 6:15). Former judges, Othniel, Ehud, Barak, had been moved by the Spirit of God to their work; but to Gideon alone under a terebinth in Ophrah, a town belonging to Joash, Jehovah appeared in person to show that the God who had made theophanies to the patriarchs was the same Jehovah, ready to save their descendants if they would return to the covenants. Gideon "kept" it in his city Ophrah; wearing the breast-plate, he made it and the holy 'lot his means of obtaining revelations from Jehovah whom he worshipped at the altar
Benjamin - Within it lay Bethel (elsewhere assigned to Ephraim), Ophrah, Geba, Gibeon, Ramab, Mizpeh, Gibeah, all primitive seats of Canaanitish worship and important centres in the cultus of Israel (cf
Names of God - This was the name of the altar that Gideon built at Ophrah signifying that God brings well-being not death to His people
Transportation And Travel - Throughout much of Israel's history the people are described as making journeys to places like Shechem (Joshua 24:1 ), Shiloh (1 Samuel 1:3 ), Ophrah (Judges 8:27 ), Dan (Judges 18:30 ), and Bethel (1 Kings 12:26-33 )
Temple of Jerusalem - It cannot be determined what kind of sanctuaries were at Ophrah, Gilgal, Nob, Mizpah, Ramah, or other “high places” where Yahweh was worshiped, but “the Temple” is the one at Jerusalem from Solomon's time
Judges (1) - 9, the story of Abimelech, is one of the oldest portions of the book, and contains for the most part genuine history; it gives an instructive glimpse of the relations between Canaanites and Israelites now brought side by side; ‘the Canaanite town Shechem, subject to Jerubbaal of Ophrah; his balf-Canaanite son Abimelech, who naturally belongs to his mother’s people; the successful appeal to blood, which is “thicker than water,” by which he becomes king of Shechem, ruling over the neighbouring Israelites also; the interloper Gaal, and his kinsmen, who settle in Shechem and Instigate insurrection against Abimelech by skilfully appealing to the pride of the Shechemite aristocracy all help us better than anything else in the book to realize the situation in this period’ (Moore)