Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Matthew 13:54), at which the people were so offended that they sought to cast him down from the precipice whereon their city wa ...

Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 3:8; 6:12; Matthew 2:23), Nazarene being quite a different word from Nazarite.” NAZARITE (Hebrews form ...

would end with theirs. Nazarites retired to the temple during the last period of seven days, because they could be secure there ...

NEBALLAT wickedness in secret, (Nehemiah 11:34), probably the village of Beit Nebala, about 4 miles north of Lydda. NEBAT sight ...

Babylonia and Media. But Nabopolassar was ambitious of reconquering from Necho the western provinces of Syria, and for this purp ...

Nebuchadnezzar now set himself to rebuild and adorn the city of Babylon (Daniel 4:30), and to add to the greatness and prosperit ...

and I never found any other legend than that of Nebuchadnezzar, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon.” Nine-tenths of all the br ...

NECK used sometimes figuratively. To “lay down the neck” (Romans 16:4) is to hazard one’s life. Threatenings of coming judgment ...

to the important office of royal cup-bearer at the palace of Shushan. The king, Artaxerxes Longimanus, seems to have been on ter ...

persuasion. His practical sagacity and high courage were very markedly shown in the arrangement with which he carried through th ...

This book closes the history of the Old Testament. Malachi the prophet was contemporary with Nehemiah. NEHILOTH only in the tit ...

Jerusalem. Others, however, have identified it with ‘Ain’ Atan, on the south-west of Bethlehem, whence water is conveyed through ...

rendered “father,” to represent also such a relationship as that of “grandfather” or “great-grandfather.” NERO occurs only in t ...

martyrdom during this persecution. He is repeatedly alluded to in Scripture (Acts 25:11; Phil. 1:12, 13; 4:22). He died A.D. 68. ...

NETHANIAH given of Jehovah. (1.) One of Asaph’s sons, appointed by David to minister in the temple (1 Chronicles 25:2, 12). (2 ...

thistles, wild camomile; but probably it is correctly rendered “nettle,” the Urtica pilulifera, “a tall and vigorous plant, ofte ...

NEW MOON, FEAST OF Special services were appointed for the commencement of a month (Numbers 28:11-15; 10:10). (See FESTIVALS.) ...

the church a false freedom or licentiousness, thus abusing Paul’s doctrine of grace (comp. 2 Peter 2:15, 16, 19), and were proba ...

NIMROD firm, a descendant of Cush, the son of Ham. He was the first who claimed to be a “mighty one in the earth.” Babel was th ...

Forty years ago our knowledge of the great Assyrian empire and of its magnificent capital was almost wholly a blank. Vague memor ...