Smith's Bible Dictionary

Gideon overtook them. The people fled in dismay, and Gideon captured the two kings and brought them to his native village, Ophra ...

or good, in any of the events of the wandering or the conquest. The statement of Josephus is probably in the main correct, that ...

temple. He is probably the same as the “Zacharias son of Barachias” who was slain between the temple and the altar. (Matthew 23: ...

•The remainder of the book consists of two sections of about equal length, chs. 9-11 and 12-14, each of which has an inscription ...

itself equivalent to a declaration of enmity with Babylon. As a natural consequence it brought on Jerusalem an immediate invasio ...

(a rib), a city in the allotment of Benjamin, (Joshua 18:28) contained the family tomb of Kish, the father of Saul. (2 Samuel 21 ...

•The son of Maaseiah, (Jeremiah 21:1) and sagan or second priest in the reign of Zedekiah. (B.C. 588.) He succeeded Jehoida, (Je ...

in the history of the Jews. On no other occasion did an Israelite army meet an army of one of the great powers and defeat it. Ze ...

to the work during the seven remaining years of the reign of Cyrus and through the eight years of Cambyses and Smerdis. Nor does ...

Zibiah (roe), a native of Beersheba and mother of King Joash. (2 Kings 12:1; 2 Chronicles 24:1) (B.C. 876) Zichri (memorable). • ...

Tennes had proved a traitor and betrayed the city to Ochus, king of the Persians; the Persian troops were admitted within the ga ...

Zilpah (a trickling), a Syrian given by Laban to his daughter Leah as an attendant, (Genesis 29:24) and by Leah to Jacob as a co ...

Zior (smallness), a town in the mountain district of Judah. (Joshua 15:54) It belongs to the same group with Hebron. Ziph (battl ...

•Son of Rehoboam by Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom. (2 Chronicles 11:20) (B.C. after 973.) Zizah a Gershonite Levite, seco ...

find Zobah under a single ruler Hadadezer son of Rehob. He had wars with Toi king of Hamath, (2 Samuel 8:10) and held various pe ...

[Zorah] Zorites, The are named in the genealogies of Judah, (1 Chronicles 2:54) apparently among the descendants of Salma and ne ...

Indexes Index of Scripture References Genesis 1   1   1   1:1 1:1 1:1 1:2 1:4 1:5 1:10 1:10 1:10 1:11 1:14-16 1:21 1:28 2:1-8 2: ...

19:1 19:1-22 19:2 19:3 19:14 19:15 19:22 19:22 19:23 19:23-29 19:24 19:28 19:30 19:30 19:38 19:38 20   20:1 20:1 20:7 20:12 20:1 ...

37:25 37:25 37:26-28 37:27 37:27 37:28 37:28 37:28 37:28 37:29 37:34 37:34 37:35 37:36 38   38:1 38:1 38:2 38:3-7 38:4 38:5 38:5 ...

16:31 16:36 17:1 17:1 17:2-5 17:4 17:7 17:8 17:8-13 17:8-16 17:8-16 17:9 17:9 17:10 17:12 17:14 17:14 17:15 17:15 17:15 17:16 17 ...