Easton's Bible Dictionary

monarch, and his government prospered. He entered into an alliance with Hiram, king of Tyre, who in many ways greatly assisted h ...

Kings 9:26-28; 10:11, 12; 2 Chronicles 8:17, 18; 9:21). This was the “golden age” of Israel. The royal magnificence and splendou ...

heart was not right with God; his worship became merely formal; his soul, left empty by the dying out of true religious fervour, ...

Revelation 19:7-9; 21:2, 9; 22:17. Compare also Psalm 45; Isaiah 54:4-6; 62:4, 5; Jeremiah 2:2; 3:1, 20; Ezekiel 16; Hos. 2:16, ...

SON OF MAN (1.) Denotes mankind generally, with special reference to their weakness and frailty (Job 25:6; Psalm 8:4; 144:3; 14 ...

hills, and flowing by Makkedah and Jabneel, falls into the sea some eight miles south of Joppa. This was the home of Deliah, who ...

SPARROW Mentioned among the offerings made by the very poor. Two sparrows were sold for a farthing (Matthew 10:29), and five fo ...

appeals and remonstrances were in vain. Moses announced that as a punishment for their rebellion they must now wander in the wil ...

SPIRIT, HOLY See HOLY GHOST. SPONGE occurs only in the narrative of the crucifixion (Matthew 27:48; Mark 15:36; John 19:29). It ...

stars worshipped (Deuteronomy 4:19; 2 Kings 17:16; 21:3; Jeremiah 19:13); spoken of symbolically (Numbers 24:17; Revelation 1:16 ...

STOICS a sect of Greek philosophers at Athens, so called from the Greek word stoa i.e., a “porch” or “portico,” where they have ...

the list of birds forbidden to be eaten by the Levitical law (Leviticus 11:19; Deuteronomy 14:18). It is like the crane, but lar ...

when heavy rains have fallen among the mountains inland, it becomes a turbulent rushing torrent. The present boundary between Eg ...

the great victory at Gilboa. After overtaking and routing this band at Karkor, Gideon on his return visited the rulers of the ci ...

SUCCOTH-BENOTH tents of daughters, supposed to be the name of a Babylonian deity, the goddess Zir-banit, the wife of Merodach, ...

SUSANCHITES the inhabitants of Shushan, who joined the other adversaries of the Jews in the attempt to prevent the rebuilding o ...

SWAN mentioned in the list of unclean birds (Leviticus 11:18; Deuteronomy 14:16), is sometimes met with in the Jordan and the S ...

easily destroyed by frost (Psalm 78:47), and therefore it is found mostly in the “vale” (1 Kings 10:27; 2 Chronicles 1:15: in bo ...

Jewish synagogues of all ages and countries. The arrangements for the women’s place in a separate gallery or behind a partition ...

distinguished for its magnitude and splendour. It is now a small town of some 13,000 inhabitants. SYRIA (Hebrews Aram), the nam ...