\\INTRODUCTION TO OBADIAH\\ The title of this Book, in the Hebrew copies, is usually Sepher Obadiah, the Book of Obadiah: the Vulgate Latin version c...
\\INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES\\ This and the following book were reckoned by the Jews as one book, as appears by the Masoretic note at the end of t...
JEHOIADA je-hoi'-a-da (yehoyadha`, Yahweh knows; Iodae): (1) Father of Benaiah, the captain of David's body-guard (2?Samuel 8:18; 20:23; 23:20,22; 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...
AHIJAH a-hi'-ja ('achiyah or 'achiyahu, brother of Yahweh, my brother is Yahweh, Yah is brother. In the King James Version the name sometimes appears ...
SHECHEM she'-kem (shekhem, shoulder; Suchem, he Sikima, ta Sikima, etc.; the King James Version gives Sichem in Genesis 12:6; and Sychem in Acts 7:16)...
\\INTRODUCTION TO ECCLESIASTES, OR THE PREACHER\\ This book has been universally received into the canon of the Scriptures, by Jews and Christians. T...
POMEGRANATE pom'-gran-at, pom-gran'-at, pum'-gran-at (rimmon (tree and fruit); the Hebrew name is similar to the Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopic; rhoa): ...
\\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...
\\INTRODUCTION TO ZECHARIAH\\ This book is in the Hebrew copies called the Book of Zechariah; in the Vulgate Latin version, the Prophecy of Zechariah...
JEHOAHAZ je-ho'-a-haz, je-ho-a'-haz (yeho'achaz, Yah has grasped; Ioachas; 2?Kings 13:1-9): (1) Son of Jehu, and 11th king of Israel. He is stated to...
Genesis 10:6 And the sons of Ham Next to the sons of Japheth, the sons of Ham are reckoned; these, Josephus F26 says, possessed the land from Syria, a...
TITHE tith (ma`aser; dekate): The custom of giving a 10th part of the products of the land and of the spoils of war to priests and kings (1 Macc 10:3...
\\INTRODUCTION TO MICAH\\ This book is called, in the Hebrew copies, Sepher Micah, the Book of Micah; in the Vulgate Latin version the Prophecy of Mi...
JUDAH, KINGDOM OF || I. CANAAN BEFORE THE MONARCHY 1. The Coming of the Semites 2. The Canaanites 3. The Israelite Confederacy 4. Migration into ...
SOLOMON sol'-o-mun (shelomoh; New Testament Solomon): I. EARLY LIFE 1. Name and Meaning 2. Sources 3. Birth and Upbringing 4. His Accession 5. C...
\\INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS\\ This book very properly follows the prophecy of Jeremiah, not only because wrote by him, but because of the subject ...
TEMPLE, A1 tem'-p'l (hekhal, palace; sometimes, as in 1?Kings 6:3,5, etc.; Ezekiel 41:1,15, used for the holy place only; bayith, house, thus always i...
GENEALOGY, 1-7 je-na-al'-o-ji, jen-a-al'-o-ji: 1. Definition 2. Biblical References 3. Importance of Genealogies 4. Their Historical Value 5. Pri...
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY $ IV. Literary Growth and Origin--Canonicity.$ Thus far the books of the Old Testament and New Testament have been taken si...