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...
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...
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...
ASMONEANS as-mo-ne'-ans: A remarkable priestly family of Modin, in Judea, also called Hasmoneans or Maccabees. They belonged to that portion of the J...
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...
COINS koinz: There were no coins in use in Palestine until after the Captivity. It is not quite certain whether gold and silver were before that time...
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...
That which is said by Moses, that Gerizim and Ebal were over-against Gilgal, Deuteronomy 11:30, is so obscure, that it is rendered into contrary signi...
Acts 23:26 Claudius Lysias, unto the most excellent Governor Felix, &c.] This is the inscription of the letter, and by it we learn the name of the chi...
Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation This is urged as a reason for their speedy flight; since the calamity that would come upon those who...
Daniel 11:26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him Those of his own household, his familiar friends, his courtiers and coun...
Appendix 4: OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL. The purpose of this outline is to give only the general features of the History of Israel and th...
Greece, Greeks, Grecians. The histories of Greece and Palestine are little connected with each other. In ( Genesis 10:2-5 ) Moses mentions the descen...
Acts 13:4 So they being sent forth of the Holy Ghost This is said, lest it should be thought they were sent by men; it was the Holy Ghost that moved t...
Jeremiah 32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries At the end of the seventy years' captivity; and which will have a greater accomplishmen...
Micah 4:12 But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel Which are very different from theirs: the thoughts and desi...
Ver. 12 And when he hath taken away the multitude That is, when Ptolemy king of Egypt had defeated the large army of Antiochus, killed great numbers ...
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...