\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 76\\ \\\\. The Targum is, ``by the hand of Asaph:'' concerning neginoth, see the title of \\#Ps 4:1\\, this psalm is gen...
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...
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): ...
The Book of 2?KingsChapter 7Chapter Overview: Elisha foretells plenty, and the death of the unbelieving lord, ver. 1, 2. Four lepers discover that ...
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...
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?...
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...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
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...
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...
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...
HEZEKIAH (2) (chizqiyah, Yahweh has strengthened; also written chizqiyahu, Yah has strengthened him; Hezekias): One of the greatest of the kings of J...
\\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...
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...
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...
\\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 ECCLESIASTES, OR THE PREACHER\\ This book has been universally received into the canon of the Scriptures, by Jews and Christians. T...
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...