Easton's Bible Dictionary

the apostles preach (ver. 17). It may thus have been written about A.D. 66 or 70, and apparently in Palestine. The epistle is ad ...

Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon (12:8-15), we have no record at all beyond the bare fact that they were judges. Sacred history is not the ...

TOLA 23 JAIR 22 —— 95 THIRD PERIOD (10:6-CH. 12) V. Servitude under Ammonites with the Philistines 18 JEPHTHAH 6 IBZAN 7 ELON ...

the conquest (17, 18) of Laish by a portion of the tribe of Dan; and (b) the almost total extinction of the tribe of Benjamin by ...

JUDGMENT SEAT (Matthew 27:19), a portable tribunal (Gr. bema) which was placed according as the magistrate might direct, and fr ...

Redeemer, and adhere to the dictates of the divine word, that we may be found of him in peace.” JUDITH Jewess, the daughter of ...

JUPITER the principal deity of the ancient Greeks and Romans. He was worshipped by them under various epithets. Barnabas was id ...

It proceeds on the imputing or crediting to the believer by God himself of the perfect righteousness, active and passive, of his ...

K KABZEEL gathering of God, a city in the extreme south of Judah, near to Idumaea (Joshua 15:21), the birthplace of Benaiah, on ...

KADESH the sacred city of the Hittites, on the left bank of the Orontes, about 4 miles south of the Lake of Homs. It is identif ...

KAREAH bald, the father of Johanan and Jonathan, who for a time were loyal to Gedaliah, the Babylonian governor of Jerusalem (J ...

KEDEMAH eastward, the last-named of the sons of Ishmael (Genesis 25:15). KEDEMOTH beginnings; easternmost, a city of Reuben, as ...

to Saul (13), he and his men “departed from Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go.” They fled to the hill Hareth, about 3 ...

accompanied them in their march as far as Jericho (Judges 1:16), and then returned to their old haunts among the Amalekites, in ...

Job 42:11, “piece of money”). The kesitah was probably a piece of money of a particular weight, cast in the form of a lamb. The ...

march; and then God at once punished them by lightning, which fell on the hinder part of the camp, and killed many persons, but ...

(John 18:1). Here Asa burned the obscene idols of his mother (1 Kings 15:13), and here Athaliah was executed (2 Kings 11:16). It ...

was demanded, that they might be like other nations (1 Samuel 8:5). The prophet Samuel remonstrated with them, but the people cr ...

his obedience and sufferings (Phil. 2:6-11), and has as its especial object the upbuilding and the glory of his redeemed Church. ...

personal knowledge. These facts countenance in some degree the tradition that Jeremiah was the author of the books of Kings. But ...