\\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...
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 DANIEL\\ This book is called, in the Vulgate Latin version, the Prophecy of Daniel; and in the Syriac and Arabic versions the Proph...
ZEPHANIAH, BOOK OF I. THE AUTHOR 1. Name 2. Ancestry 3. Life II. TIME 1. Date 2. Political Situation 3. Moral and Religious Conditions III. BO...
\\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...
AHAZIAH a-ha-zi'-a ('achazyah and 'achazyahu, Yah holds, or sustains): I. Ahaziah. Son of Ahab and Jezebel, eighth king of Israel (1?Kings 22:51-2Ki...
JEREMIAH (2) jer-e-mi'-a: 1. Name and Person 2. Life of Jeremiah 3. The Personal Character of Jeremiah 4. The Prophecies of Jeremiah 5. The Book ...
Elijah [N] [E] [H] [S]Old Testament. Elijah of Tishbe was a lone figure from the remote part of Gilead east of the Jordan. One of the better known ch...
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...
CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF kron'-i-k'-ls (dibhere ha-yamim), The Words of the Days; Septuagint paraleipomenon: $ 1. The Name$ $ 2. The Position of Chronic...
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...
PALESTINE EXPLORATION, 2B 4. Central Palestine: (1) Jerusalem. See above, III, 1, (2). (2) Samaria. (Harvard Expedition).--Although the ancient ca...
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...
JERUSALEM, 4 IX. History. Pre-Israelite period.--The beginnings of Jerusalem are long before recorded history: at various points in the neighborhood...
CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT kro-nol'-o-ji: $ I. INTRODUCTORY$ 1. Difficulties of the Subject 2. Plan of Treatment 3. Bible to be Regarded as H...
HEZEKIAH (2) (chizqiyah, Yahweh has strengthened; also written chizqiyahu, Yah has strengthened him; Hezekias): One of the greatest of the kings of J...
MARRIAGE mar'-ij: Introduction Scope and Viewpoint of the Present Article 1. Marriage among the Hebrews 2. Betrothal the First Formal Part 3. Wed...