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/ˈɪzɹəˌɫaɪts/
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NOUN
- the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19)
How To Use Israelites In A Sentence
- Psalm 137, one of the most evocative in the psalter, speaks from the perspective of the Israelites driven into exile and slavery after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E.
- For example, Armstrong's dogmatic view that the Israelites left Egypt the following night after the Passover meal, not the same night, was now deemed unscriptural.
- This inimitable pathetic elegy is supposed by many writers to have become a national war song, and to have been taught to the young Israelites under the name of "The Bow," in conformity with the practice of Hebrew and many classical writers in giving titles to their songs from the principal theme (Ps 22: 1; 56: 1; 60: 1; 80: 1; 100: 1). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- The Canaanites suffered a series of setbacks in the late 2nd millennium bc with attacks from the sea peoples in the north while in the south they were displaced by the Israelites and the Philistines.
- God had fed the Israelites in the wilderness with manna, but also with ‘miraculous flocks of quail’.
- Some imagine that it was designed to remind the Israelites of the time when they had no cornfields to reap but were daily supplied with manna; others think that it suited the convenience of the people better than any other period of the year for dwelling in booths; others that it was the time of Moses 'second descent from the mount; while a fourth class are of opinion that this feast was fixed to the time of the year when the Word was made flesh and dwelt -- literally, "tabernacled" -- among us (Joh 1: 14), Christ being actually born at that season. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- The Israelites, according to Numbers 25, were camped at Shittim when the people began "profaning themselves" by having illicit sex with the local Moabites. Brad Hirschfield: Resisting the Seductions of Religious Zeal
- Say to the Israelites: 'Any Israelite or any alien living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death.
- There would be no repeat of the mistake Moses had allowed when the Israelites first pitched camp at Shittim in Moab. THE PROMISED WAR
- Why were the prayers, sacrifices and observances of these ancient Israelites not pleasing to God?