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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...wiz zards, Isa. 8. 19; 29. 4. PEKAH, opening of the Lord, the son of Remaliah, commanded the army of Pekahiah, king of Israel, and, after conspiring to slay him, succeeded him, 2 Kings 15. 25;--confederate with Rezin, king of Syria, against Judah, Isa. 7. 1;--slain, 2 Kings 15. 30. PEKAHIAH succeeds his father Menahem, 2 Kings 15. 22;--slain, 25. PELATIAH, deliverance of the Lord, son of Benaiah. a prince who lived in the time of Zedekiah, king of Judah, Ezek. 11.1,13;--another of this name, son of Hananiah, 1 Chron. 3. 21. PELEG, division, the son of Eber, in whose days men were divided by the confusion of language, Gen. 10. 25; 11. 16. PELETHITES, judges, destroyers, valiant soldiers, who were the guards of David, 2 Sam. 8. lfj. PER PELICAN, a large fowl of the goose kind, with a long crooked beak, the fore part of the head towards the throat naked, with a bag or pouch under the bill, and which haunts deserts, Lev. 11. 18; Deut. 14. 17; Psa. 102. 6. PENS, used in writing by the ancients, were not quills, but made of small and strong reeds, Judges 5. 14; Psa. 45. 1; 3 John 13;--those for graving in stone, &c., were of iron, Job 19. 24; Jer. 17. 1. PENIE L, or PENUEL, the face of God, a place on the east of Jordan, near the brook Jabbok, so named by Jacob, because he there saw the face of God, Gen. 32. 24-30;--here the Gadites built a city, the tower of which Gideon cast down, Judges 8. 8, 9, 17;--11 was rebuilt by Jeroboam, 1 Kings 12. 25. PENTECOST, a stated festival of the Jews, thus named because it was kept on the fiftieth day after the second day of the passover: the Israelites called it the feast of weeks, because it was kept seven weeks after the passover, Ex. 34. 22;--directions how it ought to be observed, Lev. 23.15; Deut....
