Easton's Bible Dictionary

This tribute was felt by the inhabitants of these cities to be a heavy burden, and after twelve years they revolted. This brough ...

males of his house were circumcised (Genesis 17). Three months after this, as Abraham sat in his tent door, he saw three men app ...

made to Abraham were again confirmed (and this was the last recorded word of God to the patriarch); and he descended the mount w ...

against Amnon, David’s eldest son, who had basely wronged Absalom’s sister Tamar. This revenge was executed at the time of the f ...

way to the bitter lamentation: “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my s ...

they contain an account of the Creation which closely resembles that given in the book of Genesis, of the Sabbath as a day of re ...

proconsular form of government; hence the appropriate title given to Gallio as the “deputy,” i.e., proconsul, of Achaia (Acts 18 ...

them, and the consequence was that Solomon put him to death (1 Kings 2:39-46). ACHMETHA (Ezra 6:2), called Ecbatana by classica ...

oxen in a day. It is about an acre of our measure (Isaiah 5:10; 1 Samuel 14:14). ACTS OF THE APOSTLES the title now given to th ...

society in the different places visited by the apostles. It records a cycle of “representative events.” All through the narrativ ...

to that of its training or edification. The relation, however, between this history and the epistles of Paul is of such a kind, ...

upon himself and his posterity all the sad consequences of his transgression. The narrative of the Fall comprehends in it the gr ...

barley not forward enough for abib, then a month called Veadar, i.e., a second Adar, was intercalated. ADBEEL miracle of God, t ...

ADJURATION a solemn appeal whereby one person imposes on another the obligation of speaking or acting as if under an oath (1 Sa ...

(3.) One of the “chiefs of the people” after the Captivity (Nehemiah 10:16). ADONIKAM whom the Lord sets up, one of those “whic ...

into which the believer is introduced by justification, and the privileges connected therewith, viz., an interest in God’s pecul ...

ADULLAM one of the royal cities of the Canaanites, now ‘Aid-el-ma (Joshua 12:15; 15:35). It stood on the old Roman road in the ...

toward Gilgal, mentioned Joshua 15:7; 18:17. It was nearly half-way between Jerusalem and Jericho, and now bears the name of Tal ...

God (Lamentations 3:33), and will result in the everlasting good of his people (2 Corinthians 4:16-18) in Christ Jesus (Romans 8 ...

AGE used to denote the period of a man’s life (Genesis 47:28), the maturity of life (John 9:21), the latter end of life (Job 11 ...