Easton's Bible Dictionary

great victory over the Midianites (Judges 7:1-25). Here also Barak defeated Sisera, and Saul’s army was defeated by the Philisti ...

ESHEAN a place in the mountains of Judah (Joshua 15:52), supposed to be the ruin es-Simia, near Dumah, south of Hebron. ESHTAOL ...

cousin Mordecai, who held some office in the household of the Persian king at “Shushan in the palace.” Ahasuerus having divorced ...

Zorah and Eshtaol. On the crest of a rocky knoll, under the village, is a long tunnel, which may be the “cleft” in which Samson ...

ETERNAL LIFE This expression occurs in the Old Testament only in Daniel 12:2 (R.V., “everlasting life”). It occurs frequently ...

this may account for his daughter’s zeal in promoting idolatry in Israel. This marriage of Ahab was most fatal to both Israel an ...

ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH the chief officer or prime minister of state of Candace (q.v.), queen of Ethiopia. He was converted to Christi ...

Deuteronomy 11:24; Joshua 1:4), a covenant promise afterwards fulfilled in the extended conquests of David (2 Samuel 8:2-14; 1 C ...

supervision over a portion of the flock. They were itinerant preachers, having it as their special function to carry the gospel ...

seems to have reigned but two years (B.C. 562-560). Influenced probably by Daniel, he showed kindness to Jehoiachin, who had bee ...

carried away captive 3,023 eminent Jews, including the king (2 Chronicles 36:10), with his family and officers (2 Kings 24:12), ...

version reads, “The sojourning of the children of Israel and of their fathers which they sojourned in the land of Canaan and in ...

During the forty years of Moses’ sojourn in the land of Midian, the Hebrews in Egypt were being gradually prepared for the great ...

days perhaps elapsed before the whole body of the people were assembled at Rameses, and ready to set out under their leader Mose ...

of these days they came to Marah (q.v.), where the “bitter” water was by a miracle made drinkable. Their next camping-place was ...

EXODUS, BOOK OF Exodus is the name given in the LXX. to the second book of the Pentateuch (q.v.). It means “departure” or “outg ...

our room. It is that by which reconciliation is effected. Sin is thus said to be “covered” by vicarious satisfaction. The cover ...

frequently consulted by the elders (8:1; 11:25; 14:1; 20:1). His ministry extended over twenty-three years (29:17), B.C. 595-573 ...

occupy a prominent place, gives a dark, mysterious character to the prophecies of Ezekiel. They are obscure and enigmatical. A c ...

bears his name. He was the son, or perhaps grandson, of Seraiah (2 Kings 25:18-21), and a lineal descendant of Phinehas, the son ...