TRIBULATION trib-u-la'-shun (tsar, tsar, staid, narrow, pent up; compare Numbers 22:26): 1. In the Old Testament: Closely pressed, as of seals (Job ...
Overview - 2?Kings 23 1?Josiah causes the book to be read in a solemn assembly. 3?He renews the covenant of the Lord. 4?He destroys idolatry. 15?He ...
OFFENCE; OFFEND o-fens', o-fend' (mikhshol, 'asham, chaTa'; skandalon, skandalizo): Offend is either transitive or intransitive As transitive it is p...
Overview - Judges 18 1?The Danites send five men to seek out an inheritance. 3?At the house of Micah they consult with Jonathan, and are encouraged o...
JESSE jes'-e (yishay, meaning doubtful; according to Gesenius it = wealthy; Olshausen, Gram., sections 277, conjectures yesh yah, Yahweh exists; Wellh...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 56\\ \\\\. The words jonathelemrechokim are by our translators left untranslated. Aben Ezra takes them to be the beginning o...
VOW vou (nedher; euche; 'iccar, found only in Numbers 30:6,8,10 and translated horismos, by the Septuagint: A vow could be positive (nedher) and incl...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. Oppressors have it not all their own way, they have their fits of trembling and their appointed seasons of overthrow. There -- whe...
JONATHAN (2) (yehonathan; also yonathan, Yahweh has given; Ionathan): The eldest son of Saul, the first king of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin. 1....
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
\\INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES\\ The title of this book in the Hebrew copies is Sepher Shophetim, the Book of Judges; but the Syriac and Arabic interprete...
The Book of HebrewsChapter 11Verses:11:1The definition of faith given in this verse, and exemplified in the various instances following, undoubtedly i...
OMNIPOTENCE om-nip'-o-tens: 1. Terms and Usage: The noun omnipotence is not found in the English Bible, nor any noun exactly corresponding to it in ...
\\INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KINGS\\ This, and the following book, properly are but one book, divided into two parts, and went with the Jews under the co...
The Book of 1?SamuelChapter 12Chapter Overview: Samuel clears himself from all imputation of abusing the power which he now resigns to Saul, ver. 1 ...
DAVID da'-vid (dawidh, or dawidh, beloved; Daueid, also in New Testament, Dauid, Dabid; see Thayer's Lexicon): $I. NAME AND GENEALOGY$ $II. EARLY YE...