Smith's Bible Dictionary

•Head of the second course of priests, as they were divided in the time of David. (1 Chronicles 24:7) (B.C. 1014.) some of them ...

Jehiel (treasured of God), a perfectly distinct name from the last. •A man described as father of Gibeon; a fore-father of King ...

him and to fetch him to Riblah. There he was cast into chains, and from thence he was taken into Egypt, where he died. •The name ...

•Son of Paseach, who assisted to repair the old gate of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:6) Jehoiakim (whom Jehovah sets up), called Eliak ...

they utterly ravaged and destroyed most of its cities. Kirharaseth alone remained, the there the king of Moab made his last stan ...

Jerusalem. It was probably about the 16th year of his reign, B.C. 898, when he became Ahab’s ally in the great battle of Ramoth- ...

vowel-points it may happen to be written. This custom, which had its origin in reverence, was founded upon an erroneous renderin ...

warning of Elijah against the murderer of Naboth. (2 Kings 9:25) In the reigns of Ahaziah and Jehoram, Jehu rose to importance. ...

(the Jewess). There is really no such name in the Hebrew Bible as that which our Authorized Version exhibits at (1 Chronicles 4: ...

solemnly ratified before the Lord in Mizpeh, that int he event of his success against Ammon he should still remain as their ackn ...

Jeremiah Seven other persons bearing the same name as the prophet are mentioned in the Old Testament:— •Jeremiah of Libnah, fath ...

was a noble example of the triumph of the moral over the physical nature.” (It is not strange that he was desponding when we con ...

Jeremy the prophet Jeremiah. (Matthew 2:17; 27:9) Jeriah a Kohathite Levite, chief of the great house of Hebron when David organ ...

(people of Jehovah). [See Jeriah] Jerimoth (heights). •Son or descendant of Bela. (1 Chronicles 7:7) He is perhaps the same as • ...

(cherished). •Father of Elkanah, the father of Samuel, of the house of Kohath. (1 Samuel 1:1; 1 Chronicles 6:27,34) (B.C. before ...

•From the great maritime plain of Philistia and Sharon. This road led by the two Beth-horons up to the high ground at Gibeon, wh ...

Conder’s Handbook of the Bible, art. Jerusalem.) The third wall was built by King Herod Agrippa, and was intended to enclose the ...

•Gate between the two walls. (2 Kings 25:4; Jeremiah 39:4) •Horse gate. (Nehemiah 3:28; 2 Chronicles 23:15; Jeremiah 31:40) •Rav ...

to suppose that in either houses or streets the ancient Jerusalem differed very materially from the modern. No doubt the ancient ...

to the sultan. (Modern Jerusalem, called by the Arabs el-Khuds, is built upon the ruins of ancient Jerusalem. The accumulated ru ...