Jeremiah 50:2 Declare ye among the nations The taking of Babylon; a piece of news, in which the nations of the world had a concern, as well as the Jew...
Hath set forth us the apostles last (hma tou apostolou escatou apedeixen). The first aorist active indicative of apodeiknumi, old verb to show, to ex...
Daniel 1:7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names Other names, Chaldee names, according to the names of the gods of that country, for honour a...
Ver. 1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth These are names of theIsaiah 46:2 They stoop, they bow together Either the beasts under their burdens, or other...
Daniel 5:2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine As he was drinking his cups, and delighted with the taste of the wine, and got merry with it: or, by t...
Jeremiah 51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven Could the walls of it, which were very high, two hundred cubits high, as Herodotus F16 says, b...
Idol. [N] [E]An image or anything used as an object of worship in place of the true God. Among the earliest objects of worship, regarded as symbols o...
BAAL (1) ba'-al: (ba`al; or Baal): The Babylonian Belu or Bel, Lord, was the title of the supreme god among the Canaanites. _I. NAME AND CHARACTER O...
\\INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 46\\ This chapter contains a prophecy of the taking of Babylon by Cyrus, and of the deliverance of the Jews; who are encoura...
?1. The 14 books of the Septuagint included in the Vulgate but considered uncanonical by Protestants because they are not part of the Hebrew Scripture...
ABEL-MEHOLAH a'-bel-me-ho'-lah ('abhel meholah, meadow of dancing): The residence of Elisha the prophet (1?Kings 19:16). When Gideon and his 300 brok...
Jeremiah 7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people These are the words of the Lord to the Prophet Jeremiah, forbidding him to pray for the people o...
ABEL-BETH-MAACAH a'-bel-beth-ma'-a-ka ('abhel beth ma`akhah, the meadow of the house of Maacah): The name appears in this form in 1?Kings 15:20 and 2...
Apocrypha [B] [E] [H](concealed, hidden ). Old Testament Apocrypha ._The collection of books to which this term is popularly applied includes the fol...
2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria Into the land of Israel; he is called by a Jewish chronologer F3...
Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come that I will do judgment on the graven images of Babylon Because of the connection of these words, some...
Daniel 4:8 But at the last Daniel came in before me Whether sent for or no is not clear; the reason why he came not with the rest might be because he ...
REZEPH re'-zef (retseph; 1. Forms of the Name: Codex Vaticanus Rhapheis; Rhaphes; Codex Alexandrinus ten Rhapheth (2?Kings 19:12), B Q margin Rhaphe...
Guide to Book AbbreviationThe following table lists (in alphabetical order) the names of each of the books of the Bible and it's corresponding shortes...
ASTYAGES as-ti'-a-jes (Astuages; or Astyigas (in Ktesias)), or Istuvigu, son of Cyaxares. I, king of the Medes 585-550 BC, and predecessor of Cyrus (...