Genesis 10:6 And the sons of Ham Next to the sons of Japheth, the sons of Ham are reckoned; these, Josephus F26 says, possessed the land from Syria, a...
JEHOIACHIN je-hoi'-a-kin (yehoyakhin, Yahweh will uphold; called also Jeconiah in 1?Chronicles 3:16; Jeremiah 24:1; yekhonyah, Yahweh will be steadfas...
The Book of HebrewsChapter 11Verses:11:1The definition of faith given in this verse, and exemplified in the various instances following, undoubtedly i...
\\INTRODUCTION TO HABAKKUK\\ This book is called, in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions, the Prophecy of Habakkuk. Of this prophet, Aben Ezra and ...
HEZEKIAH (2) (chizqiyah, Yahweh has strengthened; also written chizqiyahu, Yah has strengthened him; Hezekias): One of the greatest of the kings of J...
JERUSALEM, 4 IX. History. Pre-Israelite period.--The beginnings of Jerusalem are long before recorded history: at various points in the neighborhood...
ZEPHANIAH, BOOK OF I. THE AUTHOR 1. Name 2. Ancestry 3. Life II. TIME 1. Date 2. Political Situation 3. Moral and Religious Conditions III. BO...
DIAL OF AHAZ di'-al, a'-haz: 1. Hezekiah's Sickness and the Sign 2. The Sign a Real Miracle 3. The Dial a Staircase 4. Time of Day of the Miracle ...
ATTITUDES at'-i-tuds: Customs change slowly in Bible lands. This becomes clear by a comparison of the many references found in the Bible and other li...
CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF kron'-i-k'-ls (dibhere ha-yamim), The Words of the Days; Septuagint paraleipomenon: $ 1. The Name$ $ 2. The Position of Chronic...
PSALM 140 OVERVIEW. This Psalm is in its proper place, and so fitly follows 139 that you might almost read right on, and make no break between the tw...
PALESTINE EXPLORATION, 2B 4. Central Palestine: (1) Jerusalem. See above, III, 1, (2). (2) Samaria. (Harvard Expedition).--Although the ancient ca...
MARRIAGE mar'-ij: Introduction Scope and Viewpoint of the Present Article 1. Marriage among the Hebrews 2. Betrothal the First Formal Part 3. Wed...
Elijah [N] [E] [H] [S]Old Testament. Elijah of Tishbe was a lone figure from the remote part of Gilead east of the Jordan. One of the better known ch...
CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT kro-nol'-o-ji: $ I. INTRODUCTORY$ 1. Difficulties of the Subject 2. Plan of Treatment 3. Bible to be Regarded as H...
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY $ IV. Literary Growth and Origin--Canonicity.$ Thus far the books of the Old Testament and New Testament have been taken si...