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...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
SHUNEM shoo'-nem (shunem; Codex Vaticanus Sounan; Codex Alexandrinus Sounam): A town in the territory of Issachar named with Jezreel and Chesulloth (...
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 FIRST KINGS\\ This, and the following book, properly are but one book, divided into two parts, and went with the Jews under the co...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 HABAKKUK\\ This book is called, in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions, the Prophecy of Habakkuk. Of this prophet, Aben Ezra and ...
\\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...
PSALM 140 OVERVIEW. This Psalm is in its proper place, and so fitly follows 139 that you might almost read right on, and make no break between the tw...
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...
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...