EXACT eg-zakt': (1) naghas (Deuteronomy 15:2,3; 2?Kings 23:35; Isaiah 58:3), to secure by force or pressure interest or money for tribute, and perhap...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 2. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts o...
Luke 24:13 And behold two of them went that same day Two of the disciples, as the Persic version reads; not of the eleven apostles, for it is certain ...
Daniel 8:14 And he said unto me That is, Palmoni, the wonderful person, to whom the angel put the above question, gave the answer to it; not unto the ...
Nehemiah 11:31 The children also of Benjamin, from Geba, dwelt at Michmash, &c.] Geba was a city on the southern border of Benjamin, ( Joshua 18:24 ) ...
Obadiah 1:10 For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob Which is aggravated: by being against Jacob, an honest plain hearted man, and whom the Lord ...
Elucidation. Dinocrates, cap. ii, p. 701.Elucidation. Dinocrates, cap. ii, p. 701.The avidity with which the Latin controversial writers seize upon th...
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...
Zechariah 9:6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod Some F16 take mamzer, the word for bastard, to be the name of a people that should dwell in Ashdod; ...
The Jews, upon their return from Babylon, at first made use of an altar without a Temple, till the Temple was finished under Darius the Second. And th...
Hebrews 11:37 They were stoned As Naboth, by the order of Ahab, ( 1 Kings 21:13-19 ) , Zachariah in the court of the Lord's house; ( 2 Chronicles 24:2...
1 Samuel 8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed When grown up and ripe, as their wheat and barley: and of your vineyards; the tenth of the grap...
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 ...
Timnah [N] [E] [H](portion ). A place which formed one of the landmarks on the north boundary of the allotment of Judah. ( Joshua 15:10 ) It is proba...
Joshua 16:3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti This place is now unknown, though no doubt well known to the sons of Joseph, when this lo...
Ver. 10,11. And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begot Joiada, and Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jaddua.] ...
After the reading of the law and the prophets (meta thn anagnwsin tou nomou kai twn prophtwn). The law was first read in the synagogues till B.C. 163...
Daniel 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom Toward the close of the kingdom of the four kings that divided Alexander's kingdom; for though the...
MENELAUS men-e-la'-us (Menelaos): According to the less likely account of Josephus (Ant., XII, v, 1; XV, iii, 1; XX, x, 3), Menelaus was a brother of...