Easton's Bible Dictionary

built belonged to Araunah, a Jebusite, from whom it was purchased by David, who refused to accept it as a free gift (2 Samuel 24 ...

covenant between him and Jacob (Genesis 31:47), who, however, called it in Hebrew by an equivalent name, Galeed (q.v.). JEHALEL ...

JEHIZKIAH Jehovah strengthens, one of the chiefs of Ephraim (2 Chronicles 28:12). JEHOADDAN Jehovah his ornament, the wife of K ...

JEHOASH Jehovah-given. (1.) The son of King Ahaziah. While yet an infant, he was saved from the general massacre of the family ...

(5.) Nehemiah 12:42. (6.) Nehemiah 12:13. JEHOIACHIN succeeded his father Jehoiakin (B.C. 599) when only eight years of age, an ...

After this the king of Egypt took no part in Jewish politics, having been defeated by the Chaldeans at Carchemish (2 Kings 24:7; ...

JEHONATHAN whom Jehovah gave. (1.) One of the stewards of David’s store-houses (1 Chronicles 27:25). (2.) A Levite who taught ...

Jehu’s bow on the piece of ground at Jezreel which Ahab had taken from Naboth, and there he died (2 Kings 9:21-29). (5.) The eld ...

Again he entered into an alliance with Ahaziah, the king of Israel, for the purpose of carrying on maritime commerce with Ophir. ...

enemies, of whom Tyre and Zidon, etc., were types. The “valley of Jehoshaphat” may therefore be simply regarded as a general ter ...

JEHOVAH-JIREH Jehovah will see; i.e., will provide, the name given by Abraham to the scene of his offering up the ram which was ...

(3.) The son of Hanani, a prophet of Judah (1 Kings 16:1, 7; 2 Chronicles 19:2; 20:34), who pronounced the sentence of God again ...

in war with the Syrians (2 Kings 10:29-33). He died after a reign of twenty-eight years (B.C. 884-856), and was buried in Samari ...

In their distress the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob, to which he had fled when driven out wrong ...

JEPHUNNEH nimble, or a beholder. (1.) The father of Caleb, who was Joshua’s companion in exploring Canaan (Numbers 13:6), a Ken ...

He remained in Jerusalem, uttering from time to time his words of warning, but without effect. He was there when Nebuchadnezzar ...

Jeremiah’s prophecies are noted for the frequent repetitions found in them of the same words and phrases and imagery. They cover ...

more a fortified city (1 Kings 16:34). Between the beginning and the end of his undertaking all his children were cut off. In Ne ...

(6.) One of David’s sons (2 Chronicles 11:18). (7.) A Levite, one of the overseers of the temple offerings (2 Chronicles 31:13) ...

kings of Judah. He was victorious over the Syrians (13:4; 14:26, 27), and extended Israel to its former limits, from “the enteri ...