ZEPHANIAH, BOOK OF I. THE AUTHOR 1. Name 2. Ancestry 3. Life II. TIME 1. Date 2. Political Situation 3. Moral and Religious Conditions III. BO...
BARUCH, BOOK OF One of the Apocryphal or Deutero-canonical books, standing between Jeremiah and Lamentations in the Septuagint, but in the Vulgate (Je...
CHAPTER 4 Amos 4:1-13 . DENUNCIATION OF ISRAEL'S NOBLES FOR OPPRESSION; AND OF THE WHOLE NATION FOR IDOLATRY; AND FOR THEIR BEING UNREFORMED ...
JUDAH, TERRITORY OF (yehudhah): I. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA 1. The Natural Boundaries 2. The Natural Divisions of Judah (1) The Maritime Plain (2) The S...
OF REDEMPTION BY CHRIST. I. I Shall settle the meaning of the word ; and shew what it supposes, includes, and is designed by it. Our English word Re...
GAMES gamz: I. ISRAELITISH GAMES 1. Children's Games Mimicry 2. Sports 3. Games of Chance and Skill 4. Story-Telling 5. Dancing 6. Proverbs 7...
CHAPTER 10 - HEZEKIAH, (THIRTEENTH) KING OF JUDAH. HOSHEA, (TWENTIETH) KING OF ISRAEL. Accession of Hezekiah - Political Circumstances of the Times -...
?EXPOSITION Verse 19. The LORD has prepared his throne in the heavens. Here is a grand burst of song produced by a view of the boundless power, and gl...
CHAPTER 12 Accession of Abijah ? his idolatry ? war between Judah and Israel ? Abijah?s address to Israel and victory ? deaths of Jeroboam and of Abij...
ALTAR ol'-ter (mizbeach, literally, place of slaughter or sacrifice, from zabhach, which is found in both senses; bomos, (only in Acts 17:23), thusias...
Chapter?47The scope of this psalm is to stir us up to praise God, to stir up all people to do so; and, I. We are directed in what manner to do it, pub...
PALESTINE, 3 IV. Palestine in the Poetic Books of the Old Testament. 1. Book of Job: In Job the scene is distinctively Edomite. Uz (Job 1:1; compare...
GENESIS, 1-2 jen'-e-sis: I. GENERAL DATA 1. The Name 2. Survey of Contents 3. Connection with Succeeding Books II. COMPOSITION OF GENESIS IN GENE...
OLIVES, MOUNT OF ol'-ivz, (har ha-zethim (Zechariah 14:4), ma`aleh ha-zethim, the ascent of the mount of Olives (2?Samuel 15:30, the King James Versio...
CHAPTER 1 Obadiah 1:1-21 . DOOM OF EDOM FOR CRUELTY TO JUDAH, EDOM'S BROTHER; RESTORATION OF THE JEWS. 1. Obadiah--that is, servant of Jehova...
Chapter?3It was a much larger and more particular account of the building of the temple which we had in the book of Kings than is here in this book of...
INTERCESSION in-ter-sesh'-un (pagha`, to make intercession; originally to strike upon, or against; then in a good sense, to assail anyone with petitio...
CHAPTER 20. OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT. This chapter consists of two principal heads,--I. General discourse on the necessity, dignity, and use of Civil Gove...
GOD, NAMES OF || I. INTRODUCTORY 1. The Phrase His Name 2. Classification. II. PERSONAL NAMES OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 1. 'Elohim 2. 'El 3. ...
NUMBER num'-ber: I. NUMBER AND ARITHMETIC II. NOTATION OF NUMBERS 1. By Words 2. By Signs 3. By Letters III. NUMBERS IN OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY I...