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...
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...
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): ...
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...
\\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...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
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...
\\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...
HEZEKIAH (2) (chizqiyah, Yahweh has strengthened; also written chizqiyahu, Yah has strengthened him; Hezekias): One of the greatest of the kings of J...
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...
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...
MARRIAGE mar'-ij: Introduction Scope and Viewpoint of the Present Article 1. Marriage among the Hebrews 2. Betrothal the First Formal Part 3. Wed...
PALESTINE EXPLORATION, 2B 4. Central Palestine: (1) Jerusalem. See above, III, 1, (2). (2) Samaria. (Harvard Expedition).--Although the ancient ca...