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Ambassador: a person of high rank employed by a government to represent it and transact its business at the seat of government of some other power. The earliest examples of ambassadors employed occur in Nu 20:14; 21:21, Jud 11:7-19 afterwards in that of the fraudulent Gibeonites, Jos 9:4 etc., and in the instances of civic strife mentioned Jud 11:12 and Judg 20:12 Ambassadors are found to have been employed not only on occasions of hostile challenge or insolent menace, 1Ki 20:2,6; 2Ki 14:8 but of friendly compliment, of request for alliance or other aid, of submissive deprecation and of curious inquiry. 2Ki 14:8; 16:7; 18:14; 2Ch 32:31 Ministers are called ambassadors of Christ. |
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