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  • What's funny, says Butler, is the single degree of coital separation between Hitler and JFK: Arvad would hit the sack with the future president just seven years later, at the Fort Sumter Hotel in Charleston, S.C. Even funnier, says Butler, is that -- unbeknownst to the residents of that hotel -- there were mics hooked up to the steamy couple's room.

    Sex, Lies and Pillow Talk 2008

  • Look at the Amalekites and Canaanites; look at the king of Arvad and all his family subjected to the law of devotion; look at the priest Samuel slaying King Agag with his own hands, and cutting him into pieces as a butcher cuts up an ox in his slaughter-house.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • A number of Canaanite enclaves (such as the Jebusites at Jerusalem) remained in the interior, but most of the Canaanites retreated to the narrow strip of coastal land from Tyre northward to Arvad.

    d. The Land of Canaan 2001

  • Hiram I unified all of Phoenicia from Mount Carmel to Arvad, though vassal dynasties continued to rule at Byblos and Arvad under Sidonian suzerainty.

    c. Phoenicia 2001

  • It was designated as the fifth satrapy, but vassal kings continued to rule in Sidon, Tyre, Arvad, and Byblos.

    c. Phoenicia 2001

  • The most important cities were Arvad, Gubal or Byblos, Sidon, and Tyre; other cities were Marathus, Berytus (Beirut), and Ecdippa.

    6. Phoenicia, Carthage, and the Phoenician Colonies, c. 1200-322 B.C.E 2001

  • The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.

    Ezekiel 27. 1999

  • The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gam'madim were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.

    Ezekiel 27. 1999

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