Easton's Bible Dictionary

JOKDEAM a city in the mountains of Judah (Joshua 15:56). JOKIM whom Jehovah has set up, one of the descendants of Shelah (1 Chr ...

is mainly to be gathered from the book which bears his name. It is chiefly interesting from the two-fold character in which he a ...

descended from Gershom (Judges 18:30). His history is recorded in 17:7-13 and 18:30. The Rabbins changed this name into Manasseh ...

century B.C. It was from this port that Jonah “took ship to flee from the presence of the Lord” (Jonah 1:3). To this place also ...

which rises in the bottom of a valley at the western base of Hermon, 12 miles north of Tell-el-Kady. It joins the main stream ab ...

of the Jordan from Banias is about 104 miles in a straight line, during which it falls 2,380 feet. There are two considerable af ...

Jacob desiring to hear tidings of his sons, who had gone to Shechem with their flocks, some 60 miles from Hebron, sent Joseph as ...

During this period of famine Joseph’s brethren also came down to Egypt to buy corn. The history of his dealings with them, and o ...

their forty years’ wanderings, and at length buried it in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of H ...

presence of Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Joses, and other women, and rolled a great stone to the entrance, and departed (L ...

own city of Timnath-serah (Joshua 24); and “the light of Israel for the time faded away.” Joshua has been regarded as a type of ...

There are two difficulties connected with this book which have given rise to much discussion, (1.) The miracle of the standing s ...

the history of the conquest there is no mention of Joshua having encountered any Egyptian force. The tablets contain many appeal ...

Kings 22:3, 5, 6; 23:23; 2 Chronicles 34:11). While this work was being carried on, Hilkiah, the high priest, discovered a roll, ...

JOT or Iota, the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet, used metaphorically or proverbially for the smallest thing (Matthew 5:1 ...

JOZACHAR Jehovah-remembered, one of the two servants who assassinated Jehoash, the king of Judah, in Millo (2 Kings 12:21). He ...

(3.) Son of Joanna, and father of Joseph in Christ’s maternal ancestry (26), probably identical with Abiud (Matthew 1:13), and w ...

The kingdom maintained a separate existence for three hundred and eighty-nine years. It occupied an area of 3,435 square miles. ...

sheep and goats, and a secure home for leopards, bears, wild goats, and outlaws” (1 Samuel 17:34; 22:1; Mark 1:13). It was divid ...

have been assigned we need not care to fix on any one as that which simply led him on. Crime is, for the most part, the result o ...