Easton's Bible Dictionary

ZEEB the wolf, one of the two leaders of the great Midianite host which invaded Israel and was utterly routed by Gideon. The di ...

ZEMARITE the designation of one of the Phoenician tribes (Genesis 10:18) who inhabited the town of Sumra, at the western base o ...

ZEPHATH beacon; watch-tower, a Canaanite town; called also Hormah (q.v.), Judges 1:17. It has been identified with the pass of ...

ZERED =Zared, luxuriance; willow bush, a brook or valley communicating with the Dead Sea near its southern extremity (Numbers 2 ...

ZETHAM olive planter, a Levite (1 Chronicles 23:8). ZETHAN a Benjamite (1 Chronicles 7:10). ZIA fear, a Gadite (1 Chronicles 5: ...

the prophets (Isaiah 23:2, 4, 12; Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3; 47:4; Ezekiel 27:8; 28:21, 22; 32:30; Joel 3:4). Our Lord visited the “c ...

ZIF brightness; splendour; i.e., “the flower month,” mentioned only in 1 Kings 6:1, 37, as the “second month.” It was called Iy ...

ZIMRAN vine-dressers; celebrated, one of the sons of Abraham by Keturah (Genesis 25:2). ZIMRI praise-worthy. (1.) A son of Salu ...

(3.) A city in the mountains of Judah (Joshua 15:55), identified with the uninhabited ruins of Tell ez-Zif, about 5 miles south- ...

ZIZAH a Gershonite Levite (1 Chronicles 23:11). ZOAN (Old Egypt. Sant= “stronghold,” the modern San). A city on the Tanitic bra ...

hearing this, adonijah fled and took refuge in the sanctuary (1 Kings 1:49-53). He was afterwards pardoned. Zoheleth projects in ...

ZURIEL rock of God, chief of the family of the Merarites (Numbers 3:35) at the time of the Exodus. ZURISHADDAI rock of the Almi ...

APPENDIX I. — CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES The Old Testament to the Death of Solomon, (According to Usher. See "Chronology.") ...

B.C. 4004..The creation. 3874..Birth of Seth. 3882..Birth of Enoch, the seventh from Adam. 3317..Birth of Methuselah. 3130..Birt ...

The Kingdoms of Judah and Israel to the Close of the Old Testament. Relations of the Two Kingdom s to each other. Kingdom of J ...

931 Elah (1 King 16:8). Son of Baasha. Was assassinated, after reigning 2 years, by Zimri, one of his captains, who destroyed al ...

Reigned 2 years. Prophet: Elisha. 897 Jehoram or Joram. Son of Ahab (2 Kinds 3:2). The last king of the house of Omri. War again ...

855 Jehoahaz (2 Kings 13:1). Eldest son of Jehu. ravages of the Syrians. Reigned 17 years. Syrians invade Judah. 840 839 Joash o ...

770 Menahem (2 Kings 15:17). Israel invaded by Pul. Menahem becomes a vassal of Assyria (2 Kings 15:19). 761 Pekahiah. Son of Me ...

The last and best king of Israel. Reigned 9 years. 727 Shalmaneser IV. succeeds Tiglath-pileser, and besieges Samaria, making Ho ...