Easton's Bible Dictionary

Egyptian Empire were fixed at the Euphrates. The Soudan, which had been conquered by the kings of the Twelfth Dynasty, was again ...

After Rameses III., Egypt fell into decay. Solomon married the daughter of one of the last kings of the Twenty-first Dynasty, wh ...

Even in the time of Abraham, Egypt was a flourishing and settled monarchy. Its oldest capital, within the historic period, was M ...

disappearance of Noph (i.e., Memphis) is a fulfilment of Jeremiah 46:19, Ezekiel 30:13. EHUD union. (1.) A descendant of Benjam ...

(3.) The second of the three sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh (1 Chronicles 4:15). (4.) The son and successor of Baasha, king ...

(3.) The son of Shaphan, one of the two who were sent by Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar, and also took charge of Jeremiah’s letter t ...

New Testament times they also appear taking an active part in public affairs (Matthew 16:21; 21:23; 26:59). The Jewish eldership ...

which were generally on or near a hill. The words may be more suitably rendered, “They buried him in Gibeah of Phinehas”, i.e., ...

Men are elected “to salvation,” “to the adoption of sons,” “to be holy and without blame before him in love” (2 Thessalonians 2: ...

ELECT LADY to whom the Second Epistle of John is addressed (2 John 1:1). Some think that the word rendered “lady” is a proper n ...

his family till the time of Abiathar (1 Kings 2:26, 27), whom Solomon deposed, and appointed Zadok, of the family of Eleazar, in ...

(3.) The son of Jesse, and brother of David (1 Samuel 16:6). It was he who spoke contemptuously to David when he proposed to fig ...

quarter, on the ridge Ophel (3:20, 21). His indulgence of Tobiah the Ammonite provoked the indignation of Nehemiah (13:4, 7). E ...

brought to a close, Elihu for the first time makes his appearance, and delivers his opinion on the points at issue (Job 32-37). ...

sat down in despondency under a juniper tree. As he slept an angel touched him, and said unto him, “Arise and eat; because the j ...

Baptist in the sternness and power of his reproofs (Luke 9:8). He was the Elijah that “must first come” (Matthew 11:11, 14), the ...

“twelve wells of water and threescore and ten palm trees.” It has been identified with the Wady Ghurundel, the most noted of the ...

ELIPHELEH God will distinguish him, one of the porters appointed to play “on the Sheminith” on the occasion of the bringing up ...

thou bald head.” The judgment at once took effect, and God terribly visited the dishonour done to his prophet as dishonour done ...

ELISHAH the oldest of the four sons of Javan (Genesis 10:4), whose descendants peopled Greece. It has been supposed that Elisha ...