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David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties.
Later it was found at Montebras, Creuse, France, and at Hebron in Maine ; and because of slight differences in optical character and chemical composition the names montebrasite and hebronite have been applied to the mineral from these localities.
Jacob was finally reunited with his father Isaac in Mamre ( outside Hebron ).
This was the last time he would ever see his son in Hebron.
Having been informed by spies that they were too strong, it was decided that they would flank Hebron by going further East, around the Dead Sea.
Likewise as well within the Christian " Tomb of the Cocks " in Beit Jibrin, which was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 miles northwest of the city of Hebron and part of the Kingdom of Israel, " we find two spirited cocks painted in red in the spandrels with a cross just over the center of the arch ".
The deadliest Jewish terrorist attack was when Dr. Baruch Goldstein, supporter of Kach, shot and killed 29 Muslim worshipers, and wounded another 150, at the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron, in 1994.
* 23 September: A 48-year-old man was killed and three of his children wounded, one seriously, in a shooting attack near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron during the Sukkot festival.
* 8 October: A 51-year-old Israeli was critically wounded in an ambush shooting south of Hebron.
Hebron was originally a Canaanite royal city.
The Hebron of the Bible was centered on what is now known as Tel Rumeida, while its ritual centre was located at Elonei Mamre.
After the destruction of the First Temple, most of the Jewish inhabitants of Hebron were exiled, and according to the conventional view, their place was taken by Edomites in about 587 BCE.
During the first war against the Romans, Hebron was conquered by Simon Bar Giora, a Sicarii leader, and later burnt down by Vespasian's officer Cerealis.
Hebron was one of the last cities of Palestina Prima to fall to the Islamic invasion in the 7th century.
The prophet Muhammad arranged for Hebron, Beit Einun and surrounding villages to be a part of al-Dari's domain ; this was implemented during Umar's reign as caliph.
A royal domain, Hebron was handed over to Philip of Milly in 1161 and joined with the Seigneurie of Transjordan.
A bishop was appointed to Hebron in 1168 and the new cathedral church of St Abraham was built in the southern part of the Haram.
In 1167 the episcopal see of Hebron was created along with that of Kerak and Sebastia ( the tomb of John the Baptist ).
But soon after his departure, feuding broke out and in 1241 the Templars mounted a damaging raid on what was, by now, Muslim Hebron, in violation of agreements.
The mill at Artas was built in 1307 where the profits from its income were dedicated to the Hospital in Hebron.

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She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
He was losing patience again.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.
By now Curt was seeing clearly again.
But his only hat was something else again.
Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.
I was again in motion and at a speed which belied the truck's similarity to Senor X's Ford turtle.
Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.
The Indian was again raising his bottle, but to my astonished relief -- probably only a fraction of Johnson's -- the bottle this time went to the Indian's lips.
Then the darkness thinned, and there was light again, and then bright sunlight.
Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.
The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.
She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.
He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.
Now it did not occur to him even to wonder whether it was wise for Robinson to dive again: Rob was his boy, the kid he had rescued from the streets, the object of his pride.
While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.
As he talked about himself, time and again stuffing and dragging on his pipe, Steinberg began to relax and the initial hurried feeling grew faint and was dispelled.
A wheel squeaked on a hub, was still, and squeaked again.
After his passage, the street was empty again.
Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

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