LONGEVITY lon-jev'-i-ti: In the part of Genesis ascribed to the Priestly Code (P), the names and genealogies of the patriarchs are given (Genesis 5; ...
SCOURGE; SCOURGING skurj, skur'-jing (@mastix], mastigoo; in Acts 22:25 mastizo, in Mark 15:15 parallel Matthew 27:26 phragelloo): A Roman implement ...
THE SONG OF DEGREES OR THE GRADUAL PSALMS. This little psalter within the psalter consists of fifteen brief songs. Why they are grouped together and...
2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, &c.] But that of Hushai: he saddled [his] ass; or ordered it to be saddled:...
PLOW plou (charash; arotrioo): No implement of the Bible is more frequently illustrated today than the plow. This is partly because there is every re...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. The plowers plowed up on my back. The scourgers tore the flesh as ploughmen furrow a field. The people were maltreated like a cri...
Agriculture or husbandry The cultivation of the earth Genesis 3:23 The occupation of man before the fall Genesis 2:15 Rendered laborious by t...
GOD, NAMES OF || I. INTRODUCTORY 1. The Phrase His Name 2. Classification. II. PERSONAL NAMES OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 1. 'Elohim 2. 'El 3. ...
CHAPTER 37 Isaiah 37:1-38 . CONTINUATION OF THE NARRATIVE IN THE THIRTY-SIXTH CHAPTER. house of the Lord--the sure resort of God's people in ...
GREETING gret'-ing (sha'-al; chairo, aspasmos, aspazomai): (1) Sha'-al means to ask, to inquire of anyone respecting welfare, hence, to greet. In the...
Q1: What is thy only comfort in life and death? That I with body and soul, both in life and death, ( rom 14:7 rom 14:8 ) am not my own, ( 1?Corinthia...
Chapter?129This psalm relates to the public concerns of God?s Israel. It is not certain when it was penned, probably when they were in captivity in Ba...
VERSIONS, GEORGIAN, GOTHIC, SLAVONIC jor'-ji-an, goth'-ik, sla-von'-ik: 1. The Georgian Version: Georgia is the name given to the territory extendin...
CHAPTER XXVI: CLOVIS (AD 496) The most famous and the most important of all the conversions whichtook place...
PSALM 130 OVERVIEW. Title. A Song of Degrees. It would be hard to see any upward step from the preceding to the present Psalm, and therefore it is pos...
Revelation 11:9 And they of the people, and kindreds, and tongues, and nations These are either the enemies of the witnesses, who consisted of the peo...
Foreigner [N] [E]Person from a different racial, ethnic, and linguistic group as in contrast to a native. Circumstances during biblical times often fo...
Chapter?120This psalm is the first of those fifteen which are here put together under the title of songs of degrees.?? It is well that it is not mater...
Weights and Measures. A. WEIGHTS. --The general principle of the present inquiry is to give the evidence of the monuments the preference on all doubt...
GOD, 2 II. The Idea of God in the Old Testament. 1. Course of Its Development: Any attempt to write the whole history of the idea of God in the Old ...