CAPPADOCIA kap-a-do'-shi-a (he Kappadokia): An extensive province in eastern Asia Minor, bounded by the Taurus mountains on the South, the Anti-Tauru...
CORINTHIANS. CHAPTER X. Judaizing False Teachers Rebuked. SUMMARY.--Paul's Personal Appeal. His Weapons Spiritual. What was Said of His Bodily Pre...
CHAPTER 13 Isaiah 13:1-22 . THE THIRTEENTH THROUGH TWENTY-THIRD CHAPTERS CONTAIN PROPHECIES AS TO FOREIGN NATIONS.--THE THIRTEENTH, FOURTEENT...
Lamb, Lamb of God Definitions. In the pastoral setting of the Bible, there were numerous words for a lamb or a sheep. The Hebrew words were kebes [f,b...
CHAPTER 52 Isaiah 52:1-15 . FIRST THROUGH THIRTEEN VERSES CONNECTED WITH FIFTY-FIRST CHAPTER. Zion long in bondage ( Isaiah 51:17-20 ) is ca...
Backsliding [T]Condition that results from spiritual apathy or disregard for the things of God, whether on the part of an individual or a group bound ...
BARUCH, BOOK OF One of the Apocryphal or Deutero-canonical books, standing between Jeremiah and Lamentations in the Septuagint, but in the Vulgate (Je...
FAITHFUL SAYINGS sa'-inz (pistos ho logos): This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation (the King James Version). These words form a stri...
Revelation 14:18 And another angel came out from the altar Where are the souls of the martyrs of Jesus, ( Revelation 6:9 ) and whom this angel is thou...
The Tabernacle The Necessity for It. Revelation is progressive. During the first twenty-five centuries God spoke to individuals at intervals; somet...
Job 18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle What shall dwell in it is not said; there are various conjectures about it, and different supplements are m...
spirits of demons These are among the angels which fell from heaven and joined forces with Satan (Rev. Rev. 12:4+). Although they are ?unclean? and i...
HARLOT har'-lot: This name replaces in the Revised Version (British and American) whore of the King James Version. It stands for several words and ph...
the angel See the discussion concerning the identity of the angel at Revelation 1:20. church in Philadelphia See commentary on Seven Churches of Asia....
CHAPTER 26 2?Chronicles 26:1-8 . UZZIAH SUCCEEDS AMAZIAH AND REIGNS WELL IN THE DAYS OF ZECHARIAH. 1. Then all the people of Judah took 2. ...
CARMEL kar'-mel (karmel, or, with article, ha-karmel, fruit garden; Josephus, ho Karmelos, Karmelion oros): (1) A beautifully wooded mountain range r...
Psalms 19:7 The law of the Lord [is] perfect By which is meant, not the law of Moses, or the ten commandments, but the doctrine of the Lord; as the wo...
SIMON (1) (Simon, Greek form of SIMEON (which see)): The persons of the name of Simon mentioned in the Apocrypha are: (1) Simon the Maccabean (Hasmo...
Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour Which was twelve o'clock at noon, there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour; till three o'clock ...
JABNEEL; JABNEH jab'-ne-el, jab'-ne (yabhne'el, God is builder; Septuagint Lebna, Swete reads Lemna; the Apocrypha has Iamnia, Iamneia): (1) A town o...