Easton's Bible Dictionary

them were written by David, one (127) by Solomon, and the rest are anonymous. DEHAVITES villagers, one of the Assyrian tribes w ...

In the six hundredth year of his life Noah is commanded by God to enter the ark, taking with him his wife, and his three sons wi ...

these traditions is that recorded on tablets prepared by order of Assur-bani-pal, the king of Assyria. These were, however, copi ...

In Acts 13:7, 8, 12; 18:12, it denotes a proconsul; i.e., the governor of a Roman province holding his appointment from the sena ...

region, arabah denotes a wilderness. It is also translated “plains;” as “the plains of Jericho” (Joshua 5:10; 2 Kings 25:5), “th ...

DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS (Hag. 2:7), usually interpreted as a title of the Messiah. The Revised Version, however, more correctly r ...

The seond discourse (5-26:19) is in effect the body of the whole book. The first address is introductory to it. It contains prac ...

considerations: (1.) The uniform tradition both of the Jewish and the Christian Church down to recent times. (2.) The book profe ...

cold as the day is the reverse, a peculiarity of climate from which poor Jacob suffered thousands of years ago (Genesis 31:40). ...

in the breastplate of the high priest, with the name of Naphtali engraven on it (Exodus 28:18; 39:11; R.V. marg., “sardonyx.”) ( ...

Hamor, the Hivite chief, when Jacob’s camp was in the neighbourhood of Shechem. This led to the terrible revenge of Simeon and L ...

(See COVENANT, Administration of.) These were so many stages in God’s unfolding of his purpose of grace toward men. The word is ...

(4.) From Asia Minor many Jews moved into Greece and Macedonia, chiefly for purposes of commerce. In the apostles’ time they wer ...

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and other jugglers and impostors (19:19; 2 Timothy 3:13). Every species and degree of this superstition was strictly forbidden b ...

DIVORCE The dissolution of the marriage tie was regulated by the Mosaic law (Deuteronomy 24:1-4). The Jews, after the Captivity ...

DOEG fearful, an Edomite, the chief overseer of Saul’s flocks (1 Samuel 21:7). At the command of Saul he slew the high priest A ...

DOOR-POSTS The Jews were commanded to write the divine name on the posts (mezuzoth’) of their doors (Deuteronomy 6:9). The Jews ...

DOPHKAH knocking, an encampment of the Israelites in the wilderness (Numbers 33:12). It was in the desert of Sin, on the easter ...

50:16). Doves and turtle-doves were the only birds that could be offered in sacrifice, as they were clean according to the Mosai ...