Phenicia [N]( Acts 21:2 ) = Phenice ( 11:19 ; 15:3 ; RSV, Phoenicia), Gr. phoinix, a palm, the land of palm-trees; a strip of land of an average brea...
Tsippor is the greatest city of Galilee, and built in a very strong place. Kitron (Judg 1:29,30) is Tsippor: and why is it called Tsippor? Because it...
Chapter 3333:1 And this [is] the a blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. (a) This blessing contain...
Dress [N] [S] Materials used. The earliest and simplest an apron of fig-leaves sewed together ( Genesis 3:7 ); then skins of animals ( 3:21 ). Elijah'...
Agriculture. [N] [E]This was little cared for by the patriarchs. The pastoral life, however, was the means of keeping the sacred race, whilst yet a f...
THE CHILDREN FOR CHRIST. Seventeenth Day. Consecrated parents. 'And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass: how shall we order the child? and...
Prayer [N] [T] [B] [S]is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Pr...
John 3:16 For God so loved the world The Persic version reads men: but not every man in the world is here meant, or all the individuals of human natur...
Altar [N] [E] [S]Structure on which offerings are made to a deity. The Hebrew word for altar is mizbeah [;eBzim], from a verbal root meaning to slaugh...
Philistines [N] [E] [H](immigrants ), The origin of the Philistines is nowhere expressly stated in the Bible; but as the prophets describe them as th...
CHAPTER 2 Isaiah 2:1-22 . 1. The inscription. The word--the revelation. 2. Same as Micah 4:1 . As Micah prophesied in Jotham's reign, and ...
Abstain, Abstinence Forbearance of certain activities as a matter of command and voluntary practice for moral and religious purposes. The word-group t...
Chapter 1111:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, 1 Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, a...
The Book of 1?SamuelChapter 15Chapter Overview: God commands Saul utterly to destroy the Amalekites, ver. 1 - 3. He destroys them, but not utterly, ...
THIRD PERIOD. FROM THE SOJOURN IN EGYPT UNTIL THE ARRIVAL IN SHILOH. THE PERIOD OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISRAEL, AND THE SPRING-TIME IN THE LAND OF PRO...
CHRIST AND SCRIPTURE E come now to the consideration of Christ's relation to Holy Scripture. The whole matter is summed up in the statement that th...
CHAPTER IV. HOW LOOKING TO THE PERSON OF CHEIST TENDS TO PROMOTE THE PEACE THAT PASSES UNDERSTANDING. No one could be supposed to have seen the Al...
THE DISTINCTION OF SEX. Sec. VI. If the contrarieties of male and female, or rather the contra- rieties which lay at the foundation of the separat...
Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in him, &c.] This and the following clause describe two sorts of persons differently...
XII. GRACIOUS REMEMBRANCE. 1 I WIll praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and rejo...