This is an article from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.\nThis article is written from a nineteenth century Christian viewpoint, and may not reflect modern opinions or recent discoveries in Biblical scholarship.\nPlease help the Wikipedia by bringing this article up to date. Ranges - (1.) Lev. 11:35. Probably a cooking furnace for two or more\npots, as the Hebrew word here is in the dual number; or perhaps\na fire-place fitted to receive a pair of ovens. (2.) 2 Kings 11:8. A Hebrew word is here used different from\nthe preceding, meaning "ranks of soldiers." The Levites were\nappointed to guard the king's person within the temple (2 Chr.\n23:7), while the soldiers were his guard in the court, and in\ngoing from the temple to the palace. The soldiers are here\ncommanded to slay any one who should break through the "ranks"\n(as rendered in the R.V.) to come near the king. In 2 Kings\n11:15 the expression, "Have her forth without the ranges," is in\nthe Revised Version, "Have her forth between the ranks;" i.e.,\nJehoiada orders that Athaliah should be kept surrounded by his\nown guards, and at the same time conveyed beyond the precincts\nof the temple. From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
