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)
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A New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him.
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Examples for "Israelites "
1 The throne did not remain long in the possession of the Israelites .
2 The Israelites had their golden Calf; the Greeks had their golden Jupiter.
3 This is the land in which the Israelites wandered for forty years.
4 And the Israelites crossed over on the dry bed of the sea.
5 The Israelites had called any phenomenon that they could not understand 'God'.
1 Touching and beautiful was the injunction of the prophet of the Hebrews :
2 The last hour, I go in and hear a lesson in Hebrews .
3 And the two office-seekers hurried away in search of the doomed Hebrews .
4 The absence of detailed reference to the Hebrews is therefore perfectly natural.
5 Henceforth the Canaanite cities of central Palestine were occupied by the Hebrews .
6 The God of the Hebrews was unknown beyond the limits of Palestine.
7 Revelation of the primitive religion made to the Hebrews in fragments, 616-l.
8 The Hebrews observe that anointing of kings was used in three cases.
9 After the Hebrews settled in Canaan they adopted other kinds of sacrifices.
10 The Lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee saying:
11 But when the Hebrews were gone he followed them with his army.
12 The Hebrews call it BERESITH, from the Word with which it begins.
13 The Hebrews call it VAICRA, from the word with which it begins.
14 But the religion of the Hebrews excluded all visible representations of deity.
15 The eleventh chapter of Hebrews has been called the picture-gallery of heroes.
16 How The Philistines Made Another Expedition Against The Hebrews And Were Beaten.
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