Easton's Bible Dictionary

commonwealth itself, the war-like Ammonites of patriarchal times, and the moral majesty of the Messianic age, are all compared t ...

Paul speaks of the golden censer as belonging to the tabernacle (Hebrews 9:4). The Greek word thumiaterion, here rendered “cense ...

CENSUS There are five instances of a census of the Jewish people having been taken. (1.) In the fourth month after the Exodus, ...

carrying away of chaff by the wind (Isaiah 17:13; Hos. 13:3; Zephaniah 2:2). CHAIN (1.) A part of the insignia of office. A cha ...

and pleasant gardens, affording to the idler or traveller their grateful and highly-valued shade. Crowds of passengers hurried a ...

“Hebrew” was also sometimes applied to the Chaldee because it had become the language of the Hebrews (John 5:2; 19:20). CHALDEE ...

CHAMELEON a species of lizard which has the faculty of changing the colour of its skin. It is ranked among the unclean animals ...

CHANNEL (1.) The bed of the sea or of a river (Psalm 18:15; Isaiah 8:7). (2.) The “chanelbone” (Job 31:22 marg.), properly “tu ...

etc.). The “charger” in which the Baptist’s head was presented was a platter or flat wooden trencher (Matthew 14:8, 11; Mark 6:2 ...

(2 Kings 2:11). Comp. 2 Kings 6:17. This vision would be to Elisha a source of strength and encouragement, for now he could say, ...

The most famous king of the dynasty was Khammu-rabi, who united Babylonia under one rule, and made Babylon its capital. When he ...

CHENAANAH merchant. (1.) A Benjamite (1 Chronicles 7:10). (2.) The father of Zedekiah (1 Kings 22:11, 24). CHENAIAH whom Jehova ...

denote the Divine abode and presence (Numbers 7:89; 1 Samuel 4:4; Isaiah 37:16; Psalm 80:1; 99:1). In Ezekiel’s vision (10:1-20) ...

Chronicles 24:8, 10, 11). In Genesis 50:26 it is rendered “coffin.” In Ezekiel 27:24 a different Hebrew word, genazim (plur.), i ...

The descendants of a man, however remote, are called his children; as, “the children of Edom,” “the children of Moab,” “the chil ...

CHILEAB protected by the father, David’s second son by Abigail (2 Samuel 3:3); called also Daniel (1 Chronicles 3:1). He seems ...

24:24) “that ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and afflict Eber.” Daniel prophesied (11:30) that the ships of Chittim ...

regard to those who do not profit by their opportunities that “many are called, but few are chosen” (Matthew 20:16). (See ELECTI ...

CHRISTIAN the name given by the Greeks or Romans, probably in reproach, to the followers of Jesus. It was first used at Antioch ...

books which were written after the Exile. The author was certainly contemporary with Zerubbabel, details of whose family history ...