EN-GANNIM en-gan'-im (`en gannim, spring of gardens): (1) A town in the territory of Judah, named with Zanoah and Eshtaol (Joshua 15:34). It is proba...
SHEPHELAH shef-e'-la (ha-shephelah; sephela, saphela): 1. Name and References: The word denotes lowland, and is variously rendered in the King James...
Overview - 1?Kings 2 1?David, having given a charge to Solomon, 3?of religiousness; 5?of Joab; 7?of Barzillai; 8?of Shimei; 10?dies. 12?Solomon su...
ECCLESIASTES, THE PREACHER e-kle-zi-as'-tez, or (qoheleth; Ekklesiastes, perhaps member of assembly; see below): \Contents 1. Structure of the Book ...
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...
Chapter?1 The books of Chronicles are, in a great measure, repetitions of what is in the books of Samuel and of the Kings, yet there are some excelle...
SOCOH; SOCO so'-ko (sokkhoh, branches), (sokho (in Chronicles only); Socho, most usual, but many forms in Septuagint and in the King James Version: S...
MIZPAH; MIZPEH miz'-pa, miz'-pe: This name is pointed both ways in the Hebrew, and is found usually with the article. The meaning seems to be outlook...
2 Timothy 4:21 Do thy diligence to come before winter When travelling would not be so safe and comfortable: the apostle consults Timothy's good, as we...
\\INTRODUCTION TO ROMANS 3\\ In this chapter are an answer to several objections which follow one upon another, relating to what the apostle had ...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 7\\ \\\\. The name of this psalm, Shiggaion, either respects the music or the matter of the psalm. Some take it to be the na...
ARGOB (2) ar'-gob (ha-'argobh; ha-argobh or Argob): A region East of the Jordan which in Deuteronomy 3:4,5 is equivalent to the kingdom of Og in Bash...
CAESAREA ses-a-re'-a, se-za-re'-a (Kaisareia): (1) Caesarea Palestina (pal-es-ti'na). The ancient name in the Arabic form Qaisariyeh still clings t...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
Excursus B. On ?22 (Note 3). Excursus B. On ?22 (Note 3). On the Meaning of the Formula Prin Gennhqh=nai Ou0k Hn, in the Nicene Anathema.It was observ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 106. I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. Under the influence of the clear light of knowle...
ELAM; ELAMITES e'-lam, e'-lam-its (`elam; Ailam; Jeremiah 49:36. Codex Sinaiticus 'the original scribe' reads Elam) The scene of the events of 1?Samu...
BETHSAIDA beth-sa'-i-da (Bethsaida, house of fishing): (1) A city East of the Jordan, in a desert place (that is, uncultivated ground used for grazin...
?EXPOSITION Verse 11. When a godly man sues for a favour from God he should carefully use every means for obtaining it, and accordingly, as the Psalmi...
Chapter?29How Saul, who was forsaken of God, when he was in a strait was more and more perplexed and embarrassed with his own counsels, we read in the...