\\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...
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...
\\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...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
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): ...
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?...
\\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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
The Book of HebrewsChapter 11Verses:11:1The definition of faith given in this verse, and exemplified in the various instances following, undoubtedly i...
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...
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...
\\INTRODUCTION TO ECCLESIASTES, OR THE PREACHER\\ This book has been universally received into the canon of the Scriptures, by Jews and Christians. T...
JERUSALEM, 4 IX. History. Pre-Israelite period.--The beginnings of Jerusalem are long before recorded history: at various points in the neighborhood...
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...
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...