EZEKIEL, 1 e-ze'-ki-el: \Contents - \I. THE PROPHET AND HIS BOOK 1. The Person of Ezekiel Name, Captivity and Trials 2. The Book (1) Its Genuinenes...
EZEKIEL, 2 \II. Significance of Ezekiel in Israel's Religious History. Under the first head we will consider the formal characteristics and significan...
Aspects of the text of the book of Revelation have been understood by some as being indicative of an earlier date. Chilton holds that since Scripture...
HIGH PLACE 1. General: (1) High place is the normal translation of bamah, a word that means simply elevation (Jeremiah 26:18; Ezekiel 36:2, etc.; com...
Chapter 11:4? And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Fath...
VINE vin: 1. Hebrew Words: (1) gephen, usually the cultivated grape vine. In Numbers 6:4; Judges 13:14 we have gephen ha-yayin, literally, vine of w...
Levite [E]Pentateuch. The Hebrew word for Levite (lew) indicates a descendant of Levi, the son of Jacob and Leah ( Gen 29:34 ). There were three famil...
Evil [N]As a prerequisite for any discussion of evil, moral evil must be distinguished from physical or natural evil. This essay uses the term moral e...
these will make war ???????????? [Polem?sousin] , which indicates a protracted engagement rather than a single battle. The same word is translated, so...
SPRINKLE; SPRINKLING sprin'-k'-l, sprin'-kling (zaraq, nazah; rhantizein): The first word means to toss or scatter abundantly, e.g. in handfuls, as d...
Love [N] [E]God is love and has demonstrated that love in everything that he does. Paul compares faith, hope, and love, and concludes that the greates...
The scene which John is shown next is an extension of what has preceded. In the previous chapter, Revelation 11 , John was shown two witnesses who pro...
who were sealed ????????????? [esphragismen?n] , perfect passive participle, ones having been sealed. The angel recounts the total number of individua...
In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life The Greek lacks the article: the tree. There are several trees, ea...
KIDRON, THE BROOK (nachal qidhron; in John 18:1 (the King James Version Cedron), ho cheimarrhous ton Kedron, according to the Revised Version margin, ...
and from Jesus Christ Within this simple greeting can be found a neglected doctrine of paramount importance: the Trinity. The greeting is from each me...
Faith [N] [T] [E]Belief, trust, and loyalty to a person or thing. Christians find their security and hope in God as revealed in Jesus Christ, and say ...
Suffering [N]The experience of physical pain and/or mental distress. The words and phrases in the Bible expressing this concept are too numerous to li...
Chapter?15In this chapter we have laws concerning other ceremonial uncleannesses contracted either by bodily disease like that of the leper, or some n...
Chapter?24Things are here ripening for, and hastening towards, the utter destruction of Jerusalem. We left Jehoiakim on the throne, placed there by th...