Overview - Mark 12 1?In a parable of the vineyard let out to wicked husbandmen Christ foretells the reprobation of the Jews, and the calling of the Ge...
Isaiah 36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? &c.] What is become of them? where are they to be found? where's their power to protect and defe...
Overview - 2?Chronicles 34 1?Josiah's good reign. 3?He destroys idolatry. 8?He takes order for the repair of the temple. 14?Hilkiah, having found a ...
Overview - 1?Chronicles 9 1?The original of Israel and Judah's genealogies. 2?The Israelites; 10?the priests; 14?and the Levites, with Nethinims, whi...
HABOR ha'-bor (chabhor; Habor, Habior; Isidor of Charax, Aburas (Abouras), Zosias, Aboras): 1. Its Position and Course: Is described in 2?Kings 17:6...
FEAR fer (yir'ah, yare'; phobos, phobeo): Terms, etc.: Fear is the translation of many words in the Old Testament; the chief are: yir'ah, fear, ter...
\\INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL\\ This book is called, in the Vulgate Latin version, the Prophecy of Daniel; and in the Syriac and Arabic versions the Proph...
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 JONAH\\ This book, in the Hebrew copies, is called Sepher Jonah, the Book of Jonah; by the Vulgate Latin version the Prophecy of Jo...
The Book of 2?KingsChapter 7Chapter Overview: Elisha foretells plenty, and the death of the unbelieving lord, ver. 1, 2. Four lepers discover that ...
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...
\\INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA\\ This book, in the Hebrew Bibles, at least in some copies, is called Sopher Hosea, the Book of Hoses; and, in the Vulgate L...
\\INTRODUCTION TO JOEL\\ In some Hebrew Bibles this prophecy is called Sepher Joel, the Book of Joel; in the Vulgate Latin version, the Prophecy of J...
MESHA me'-sha: (1) (mesha`; Codex Vaticanus, Marisa; Codex Alexandrinus, Marisas): Caleb's firstborn son, the father of Ziph, probably the ancestor ...
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...
JEHOIACHIN je-hoi'-a-kin (yehoyakhin, Yahweh will uphold; called also Jeconiah in 1?Chronicles 3:16; Jeremiah 24:1; yekhonyah, Yahweh will be steadfas...
KINGS, BOOKS OF || I. TITLE II. SCOPE III. CHARACTER OF BOOKS AND POSITION IN THE HEBREW CANON 1. Purpose 2. Character of Data IV. HISTORICAL VA...
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...
ATTITUDES at'-i-tuds: Customs change slowly in Bible lands. This becomes clear by a comparison of the many references found in the Bible and other li...