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...
BAND The English word has two generic meanings, each shading off into several specific meanings: (1) that which holds together, binds or encircles: ...
Overview - Jeremiah 38 1?Jeremiah, by a false suggestion, is put into the dungeon of Malchiah. 7?Edeb-melech, by suit, gets him some enlargement. 14?...
John 4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir Which was an usual, way in those countries, of addressing men, and especially strangers; and expresses no unco...
John 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir With another countenance, and a different air and gesture, with another accent and tone of speech, dropping he...
Letter IV(1) Letter IV(1) To Olympius.(2) What do you mean, my dear Sir, by evicting from our retreat my dear friend and nurse of philosophy, Poverty...
Overview - 1?Samuel 14 1?Jonathan goes and miraculously smites the Philistine's garrison. 15?A divine terror makes them beat themselves. 17?Saul, not ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 2. Praise the Lord with harp. Men need all the help they can get to stir them up to praise. This is the lesson to be gathered from th...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 2. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. Boasting is a very natural propensity, and if it were used as in this case, the more it ...
Commandment TwelfthCommandment TwelfthOn the Two Fold Desire. The Commandments of God Can Be Kept, and Believers Ought Not to Fear the Devil. Chapter ...
DUKE duk: The rendering in the King James Version in Genesis 36:15; Exodus 15:15, and 1?Chronicles 1:51 of 'alluph (the American Standard Revised Ver...
William Burton, A. B.?This pious minister was born in the city of Winchester, and educated first at Wickham school, then in New College, Oxford, wher...
Commandment Seventh Commandment Seventh On Fearing God, and Not Fearing the Devil.Fear, said he, the Lord, and keep His commandments.(1) For if you ke...
Letter LXIII(1) Letter LXIII(1) To the Governor of Neocoesarea. The wise man, even if he dwells far away, even if I never set eyes on him, I count a ...
Jerom Turner, A. B.?This worthy person was born at Yeovil in Somersetshire, in the year 1615, and educated at Edmund's-hall, Oxford. Having finished h...
Similitude NinthSimilitude NinthThe Great Mysteries in the Building of the Militant and Triumphant Church. Chapter I.After I had written down the comm...
Similitude Tenth Similitude Tenth Concerning Repentance and Alms-Giving. Chapter I.After I had fully written down this book, that messenger who had de...
Chapter 77:1? And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind s...
ACHMETHA ak'-me-tha (Ezra 6:2; 'achmetha'; Septuagint Amatha; Peshitta achmathan; in Tiglath Pileser's inscription circa 1100 BC Amadana: in Darius' B...
Contribution Contributions come in various forms in the Bible. They were designed in the Old Testament to support the poor and, in the New Testament, ...