Amos 1:8 I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod The same with Azotus, ( Acts 8:40 ) ; another principal city of the Philistines: this perhaps was ...
Acts 16:1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra Which were cities of Lycaonia, ( Acts 14:6 ) after Paul had gone through Syria and Cilicia; in the last of ...
CHAPTER 11 Daniel 11:1-45 . This chapter is an enlargement of the eighth: THE OVERTHROW OF PERSIA BY GRECIA: THE FOUR DIVISIONS OF ALEXANDER'...
FELLOW fel'-o (chabher, rea`; hetairos): Meant originally a partner, from fe, property, and lag, to lay, then a companion, an equal, a person or indi...
Joshua 17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar, and in Asher, Bethshean, and her towns As Ephraim had cities in Manasseh, so had Manasseh cities in these t...
GAULS golz (Galatai): Galatia in Asia Minor is literally the Gallia of the East; its inhabitants are called Galli by Roman writers, just as the inhab...
Edom, Idumaea or Idumea (red ). The name Edom was given to Esau, the first-born son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob, when he sold his birthright t...
Jeremiah 49:6 And afterwards I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the Lord.] Perhaps by Cyrus; for, in the times of Judas ...
Acts 13:14 But when they departed from Perga Where they seemed not to make any long stay; nor is there any account of what they did there; though it i...
CHAPTER 8 Daniel 8:1-27 . VISION OF THE RAM AND HE-GOAT: THE TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED DAYS OF THE SANCTUARY BEING TRODDEN DOWN. With this chapte...
ANTIOCHUS IV, ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES (Epiphanes, e-pif'-a-naz, Illustrious): Son of Antiochus III who became king after his brother, Seleucus IV, had be...
DEUTERO-CANONICAL, BOOKS du-ter-o-ka-non'-i-kal: A term sometimes used to designate certain books, which by the Council of Trent were included in the...
Haggai 2:9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts The former, or first house, was the temple buil...
Apocrypha [B] [E] [H](concealed, hidden ). Old Testament Apocrypha ._The collection of books to which this term is popularly applied includes the fol...
FIRE fir ('esh; pur): These are the common words for fire, occurring very frequently. 'Ur, light (Isaiah 24:15 the King James Version; compare the Re...
If Nero is related to the Beast in any way, he is related similarly to Antiochus Epiphanes of the time of the Maccabees. His character serves as a bi...
FORM form (yatsar, to'ar; morphe): (1) To form is to fashion, create, produce. In the Old Testament it is for the most part the translation of yatsar...
Elucidation. Dinocrates, cap. ii, p. 701.Elucidation. Dinocrates, cap. ii, p. 701.The avidity with which the Latin controversial writers seize upon th...
Acts 16:6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia (See Gill on Acts 2:10) To which may be added, that this country had its name either from the rive...