Dict: smith - AMBASSADOR

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AMBASSADOR - A>@ - 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 kjv@Numbers:20:14 kjv@Numbers:21:21; kjv@Judges:11:7-19) afterwards in that of the fraudulent Gibeonites, kjv@Joshua:9:4) etc., and in the instances of civic strife mentioned kjv@Judges:11:12) and Judg 20:12 Ambassadors are found to have been employed not only on occasions of hostile challenge or insolent menace, (Kings:20:2,6; kjv@2Kings:14:8) but of friendly compliment, of request for alliance or other aid, of submissive deprecation and of curious inquiry. ( kjv@2Kings:14:8 kjv@2Kings:16:7 kjv@2Kings:18:14 ; kjv@2Chronicles:32:31) Ministers are called ambassadors of Christ.