Easton's Bible Dictionary

dwelt in it I carried away” (2 Kings 17:6) into Assyria. Thus after a duration of two hundred and fifty-three years the kingdom ...

The prophetic blessing pronounced by Jacob on Issachar corresponds with that of Moses (Genesis 49:14, 15; comp. Deuteronomy 33:1 ...

between Sepharvaim and Henah, and is supposed by some to have been the Ahava of Ezra (8:15). IVORY (Hebrews pl. shenhabbim, the ...

J JAAKAN he twists, one of the sons of Ezer, the son of Seir the Horite (1 Chronicles 1:42). JAAKOBAH heel-catcher, a form of t ...

Kohath (1 Chronicles 26:31). It is mentioned in the “burdens” proclaimed over Moab (Isaiah 16:8, 9; Jeremiah 48:32). Its site is ...

Jabesh-Gilead, the whole of whose inhabitants were put to the sword, except four hundred maidens, whom they brought as prisoners ...

JABNEEL built by God. (1.) A town in the north boundary of Judah (Joshua 15:11), called afterwards by the Greeks Jamnia, the mo ...

JACHIN AND BOAZ the names of two brazen columns set up in Solomon’s temple (1 Kings 7:15-22). Each was eighteen cubits high and ...

trials, in the retributive providence of God, followed as a consequence of this double union.” At the close of the fourteen year ...

maintained friendly relations. After a brief sojourn at Succoth, Jacob moved forward and pitched his tent near Shechem (q.v.), 3 ...

JACOB’S WELL (John 4:5, 6). This is one of the few sites in Palestine about which there is no dispute. It was dug by Jacob, and ...

down the cords of the tent, and in her right hand the mallet, or “hammer,” used for driving it into the ground, and stealthily a ...

JAHDAI grasper, a descendant of Caleb, of the family of Hezron (1 Chronicles 2:47). JAHZEEL allotted by God, the first of the s ...

JAIRUS a ruler of the synagogue at Capernaum, whose only daughter Jesus restored to life (Mark 5:22; Luke 8:41). Entering into ...

1:13). He appears to have occupied the position of head of the Church at Jerusalem, where he presided at the council held to con ...

JANNES one of the Egyptians who “withstood Moses” (2 Timothy 3:8). JANOAH or Jano’hah, rest. (1.) A town on the north-eastern b ...

i.e., the Ethiopians; ‘Mizraim,’ the people of Egypt; ‘Sheba and Dedan,’ or certain of the Southern Arabs; and ‘Nimrod,’ or the ...

JARMUTH height. (1.) A town in the plain of Judah (Joshua 15:35), originally the residence of one of the Canaanitish kings (10: ...

“most precious,” “clear as crystal” (21:11). It was emblematic of the glory of God (4:3). JATTIR pre-eminent, a city in the mou ...

JAW-BONE of an ass afforded Samson a weapon for the great slaughter of the Philistines (Judges 15.15), in which he slew a thous ...