Names. Names of places . --These may be divided into two general classes --descriptive and historical. The former are such as mark some peculiarity o...
REZIN re'-zin (retsin; Rhaasson): The last of the kings of Syria who reigned in Damascus (2?Kings 15:37; 16:5-10; Isaiah 7:1; 8:4-7). Alona with Peka...
The Book of IsaiahChapter 22Chapter Overview: The anguish of Judah, the prophet much grieved, ver. 1 - 5. By the Persians, Medes, and Assyrians, ver...
Jeremiah 48:1 Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, &c.] The prophecy concerning Moab is introduced with these epithets of God...
Jehoram [N] [H] [S]Jehovah-exalted. Son of Toi, king of Hamath, sent by his father to congratulate David on the occasion of his victory over Hadadeze...
Mizpah [N] [H] [S]or Miz'peh, watch-tower; the look-out. A place in Gilead, so named by Laban, who overtook Jacob at this spot ( Genesis 31:49 ) on h...
KIRIATH-JEARIM kir-i-ath je'-a-rim, kir-i-ath je-a'-rim (qiryath-ye`-arim, city of thickets; Septuagint he polis Iareim; the King James Version Kirjat...
MESHA me'-sha: (1) (mesha`; Codex Vaticanus, Marisa; Codex Alexandrinus, Marisas): Caleb's firstborn son, the father of Ziph, probably the ancestor ...
TIGLATH-PILESER tig-lath-pi-le-zer tighlath pil'eser, as the name is read in 2 Kings, tilleghath pilnecer, in 2 Chronicles; Septuagint Algathphellasa...
MOAB; MOABITES mo'-ab, mo'-ab-its (Moab, mo'abh, Moabite Stone, M-'-B; Greek (Septuagint) Moab, he Moabeitis, Moabitis; Moabite, mo'abhi; Moabites, be...
Chapter 99:1 I saw the Lord standing upon the a altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the b head...
CHAPTER 16 2?Kings 16:1-16 . AHAZ' WICKED REIGN OVER JUDAH. 1-4. Ahaz .?.?. did not that which was right in the sight of the the voluptuousne...
Jehoshaphat [N] [H] [S]Jehovah-judged. One of David's body-guard ( 1?Chronicles 11:43 ). One of the priests who accompanied the removal of the ark...
Moab [N] [E] [H](of his father ), Moabites. Moab was the son of the Lots eldest daughter, the progenitor of the Moabites. Zoar was the cradle of the ...
CHAPTER 48 Jeremiah 48:1-47 . PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB. It had taken part with the Chaldeans against Judea ( 2?Kings 24:2 ). Fulfilled by Nebuc...
Matthew 27:32 And as they came out Of the city; for no execution was made, neither in the court of judicature, nor in the city, but at some distance; ...
CHAPTER 15 Isaiah 15:1-9 . THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CHAPTERS FORM ONE PROPHECY ON MOAB. LOWTH thinks it was delivered in the first years ...
SACRIFICE, HUMAN hu'-man: As an expression of religious devotion, human sacrifice has been widespread at certain stages of the race's development. Th...
CHAPTER 9 Amos 9:1-15 . FIFTH AND LAST VISION. None can escape the coming judgment in any hiding-place: for God is omnipresent and irresisti...
CHAPTER 1 Amos 1:1-15 . GOD'S JUDGMENTS ON SYRIA, PHILISTIA, TYRE, EDOM, AND AMMON. 1. The words of Amos--that is, Amos' oracular communicati...