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Joshua 11:22

Joshua 11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel For those that escaped the sword fled elsewhere, particularly to...

Goodly Trees

GOODLY TREES (peri`ets hadhar, the fruit (the King James Version boughs) of goodly (= beautiful or noble) trees): One of the four species of plants u...

Furnish

FURNISH fur'-nish (male; plethomai): To furnish is to supply with what is useful or necessary, to fit out, provide, equip. It is the translation of s...

Forefront

FOREFRONT for'-frunt (panim): For forefront, front is now generally used, since back-front has gone out of use. Forefront is the translation of panim...

Exact

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...

Hasidaeans

HASIDAEANS has-i-de'-anz (Hasidaioi, a transliteration of chacidhim, the pious, Puritans): A name assumed by the orthodox Jews (1 Macc 2:42; 7:13) to...

Psalm 79:2

?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

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

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

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 ) ...

Introduction

\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 44\\ \\\\. It is not certain who was the writer of this psalm, nor when it was written, and to what time it belongs: some ha...

Introduction

\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 115\\ This psalm is by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, joined to the former, and makes...

Obadiah 1:10

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.Elucidation. Dinocrates, cap. ii, p. 701.The avidity with which the Latin controversial writers seize upon th...

Joshua 17:11

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

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; ...

4. Short hints of the condition of the second Temple.

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

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...

Nehemiah 12:10

Ver. 10,11. And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begot Joiada, and Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jaddua.] ...