Easton's Bible Dictionary

BAAL-HANAN Lord of grace. (1.) A king of Edom, son of Achbor (Genesis 36:38, 39; 1 Chronicles 1:49, 50). (2.) An overseer of “ ...

14:11). Called Mount Perazim (Isaiah 28:21). It was near the valley of Rephaim, west of Jerusalem. Identified with the modern Je ...

the capital of his kingdom, and there he was buried, after an eventful reign of twenty-four years (1 Kings 15:33). On account of ...

above its junction with the Tigris, which flowed through its midst and divided it into two almost equal parts. The Elamites inva ...

power in the papal form. Rome, pagan and papal, is regarded as one power. “The literal Babylon was the beginner and supporter of ...

of Sargon. Babylonia was subsequently again broken up into more than one state, and at one time fell under the domination of Ela ...

BACA, VALLEY OF (Psalm 84:6; R.V., “valley of weeping,” marg., “or balsam trees”), probably a valley in some part of Palestine, ...

(3.) Another word rendered “bag” in 1 Samuel 17:40 is rendered “sack” in Genesis 42:25; and in 1 Samuel 9:7; 21:5 “vessel,” or w ...

BAKE-MEATS baked provisions (Genesis 40:17), literally “works of the baker,” such as biscuits and cakes. BALAAM Lord of the peo ...

Ezekiel 40:3,5; 42:16-18. There is another Hebrew word, mozena’yim, i.e., “two poisers”, also so rendered (Daniel 5:27). The bal ...

BAMAH a height, a name used simply to denote a high place where the Jews worshipped idols (Ezekiel 20:29). The plural is transl ...

principal Roman standard, however, was an eagle. (See Matthew 24:28; Luke 17:37, where the Jewish nation is compared to a dead b ...

Matthew 14:6). They were sometimes protracted, and attended with revelry and excess (Genesis 21:8; 29:22; 1 Samuel 25:2,36; 2 Sa ...

Baptism the work of the Holy Spirit is fully seen in the water poured or sprinkled on the person in the name of the Father, Son, ...

The Church of Christ exists as a divinely organized community. It is the “kingdom of God,” one historic kingdom under all dispen ...

little ones by your side, their hearts may perhaps have been touched with the love of God; still, they are not old enough to mak ...

introduced into his offices, and thus be publicly recognized as the Messiah of whose coming the prophecies and types had for man ...

BAR used to denote the means by which a door is bolted (Nehemiah 3:3); a rock in the sea (Jonah 2:6); the shore of the sea (Job ...

BAREFOOT To go barefoot was a sign of great distress (Isaiah 20:2, 3, 4), or of some great calamity having fallen on a person ( ...

of Saul to assist him. Saul returned with him to Antioch and laboured with him for a whole year (Acts 11:25, 26). The two were a ...