Easton's Bible Dictionary

29, etc.). Twenty whole chapters, and twenty-four parts of chapters, are occupied with matter not found elsewhere. It also recor ...

and to be rejected. The same system of variations is observed in the chronology of the period between the Flood and Abraham. Thu ...

The next period is from the birth of Abraham to the Exodus. This, according to the Hebrew, extends to five hundred and five year ...

probably a people of Northern Africa, or of the lands near Egypt in the south. CHUN one of the cities of Hadarezer, king of Syr ...

its members are known and its assemblies are public. Here there is a mixture of “wheat and chaff,” of saints and sinners. “God h ...

they are one and the same. The Old Testament church was not to be changed but enlarged (Isaiah 49:13-23; 60:1-14). When the Jews ...

synagogue at Jerusalem (Acts 6:9). Paul visited it soon after his conversion (Galatians 1:21; Acts 9:30), and again, on his seco ...

they could enjoy the privileges of Jewish citizenship (Exodus 12:48). During the journey through the wilderness, the practice of ...

ever the same, the removal of sin, the sanctifying effects of grace in the heart. Under the Jewish dispensation, church and stat ...

record of the cities of the Canaanites, Sidon, Gaza, Sodom, etc. (10:12, 19; 11:3, 9; 36:31-39). The earliest description of a c ...

CLAUDA a small island off the southwest coast of Crete, passed by Paul on his voyage to Rome (Acts 27:16). It is about 7 miles ...

CLAY This word is used of sediment found in pits or in streets (Isaiah 57:20; Jeremiah 38:60), of dust mixed with spittle (John ...

not certain that he was the Clopas of John 19:25, or the Alphaeus of Matthew 10:3, although he may have been so. CLEOPHAS (in t ...

seat of the Divine presence (Ex.29:42, 43; 1 Kings 8:10; 2 Chronicles 5:14; Ezekiel 43:4), and was called the Shechinah (q.v.). ...

CNIDUS a town and harbour on the extreme south-west of the peninsula of Doris in Asia Minor. Paul sailed past it on his voyage ...

(Daboia xanthina), one of the most dangerous vipers, from its size and its nocturnal habits (Isaiah 11:8; 14:29; 59:5; Jeremiah ...

used in the time of Abraham may have been of a fixed weight, which was in some way indicated on them. The “pieces of silver” pai ...

and lictors), not by proconsuls. It had an independent internal government, the jus Italicum; i.e., the privileges of Italian ci ...

(2.) The practical part of the epistle (3-4) enforces various duties naturally flowing from the doctrines expounded. They are ex ...

and Revelation 6:5. It was the emblem of mourning, affliction, calamity (Jeremiah 14:2; Lamentations 4:8; 5:10). Red, applied to ...