Topic
Beraa
4 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1884 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Maccabees 9:4Smith
From whence they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand horsemen.
- 2 Maccabees 13:4Smith
But the King of kings moved Antiochus’ mind against this wicked wretch, and Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring him unto Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.
- Acts 17:10Smith
¶ And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
- Acts 17:13Smith
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 4 references
- A city of Macedonia, mentioned in (Acts 17:10,13) It is now called Verria or Kara-Verria , and is situated on the eastern slope of the Olympian mountain range, and has 15,000 or 20,000 inhabitants.
- The modern Aleppo , mentioned in 2 Macc. 13:4.
- A place in Judea, apparently not very far from Jerusalem. 1 Macc. 9:4.
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.