Smith's Bible Dictionary

The disciple thus named was the son of one of those mixed marriages which, though condemned by stricter Jewish opinion were yet ...

Asia; that the apostle then continued his Journey to Macedonia, while the disciple remained, half reluctantly, even weeping at t ...

6:15,16; 2 Timothy 4:18) as from one living perpetually in the presence of God, to whom the language of adoration was as his nat ...

(Nehemiah 8:9; 10:1) and occurs also in three other places. In the margin of the Authorized Version (Ezra 2:63; Nehemiah 7:65; 1 ...

•Then follows the direction that at the end of three years all the tithe of that year is to be gathered and laid up “within the ...

bridle, ver. 11, the restless and mischievous Judaizers. He is also to look for the arrival in Crete of Artemas and Tychicus, ch ...

•“Tobiah the slave, the Ammonite,” played a conspicuous part in the rancorous position made by Sanballat the Moabite and his adh ...

(erring), king of Hamath on the Orontes, who, after the defeat of his powerful enemy the Syrian king Hadadezer by the army of Da ...

There he and his immediate descendants were laid 3700 years ago, and there they are believed to rest now, under the great mosque ...

of Jerusalem belong to the age of the Romans. Tomb of Helena of Adiabene .—There was one other very famous tomb at Jerusalem, wh ...

•(Acts 2:1-13; 10:46; 19:6) •(2 Corinthians 12:1; 2 Corinthians 14:1) ... III. The promise of a new power coming from the divine ...

common laws of bodily or mental life lead us to a region where our words should be “wary and few.” It must be remembered then, t ...

their chrysolite is our topaz. Chrysolite is a silicate of magnesia and iron; it is so son as to lose its polish unless carefull ...

(a rugged region), (Luke 3:1) is in all probability the Greek equivalent for the Aramaic Argob, one of the five Roman provinces ...

death of all men.’ No man knew of the sepulchre of Moses, (34:6) and Elijah had passed away in the chariot and horses of fire. ( ...

[Sin Offering OFFERING] Trial Information on the subject of trials under the Jewish law will be found in the articles on Judges ...

at the time of the offering of the sacrifices, it was “a day of blowing of trumpets.” In addition to the daily sacrifices and th ...

species, the palm-dove (so named because it builds its nest in the palm tree), or Egyptian turtle— Turtur aegyptiacus, Temm.—is ...

of retaliation. (Joel 3:4-8; Amos 1:9,10) When Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, had taken the city of Samaria, had conquered the ki ...

to Tyre, as its brave defenders were put to death; and in accordance with the barbarous policy of ancient times, 30,000 of its i ...