Achmetha
[Ecbatana]
Achor, Valley Of
(valley of trouble), the spot at which Achan was stoned. (Joshua 7:24,26) On the northern
boundary of Judah, (Joshua 15:7) near Jericho.
Achsa
(1 Chronicles 2:49) [Achsah]
Achsah
(ankle-chain, anklet), daughter of Caleb. Her father promised her in marriage to whoever should
take Debir. Othniel, her father’s younger brother, took that city, and accordingly received the hand
of Achsah as his reward. Caleb added to her dowry the upper and lower springs. (B.C. 1450-1426.)
(Joshua 15:15-19; Judges 1:11-15)
Achshaph
(fascination), a city within the territory of Asher, named between Beten and Alammelech,
(Joshua 19:25) originally the seat of a Canaanite king. (Joshua 11:1; 12:20)
Achzib
(lying, false).
•A city in the lowlands of Judah, named with Keilah and Mareshah. (Joshua 15:44; Micah 1:14) It
is probably the same with Chezib and Chozeba, which see.
•A town belonging to Asher, (Joshua 19:29) from which the Canaanites were not expelled, (Judges
1:31) afterwards Ecdippa. It is now es-Zib, on the seashore, 2h. 20m. north of Acre.
Acrabbim
See MAALEH-ACRABBIM, (Joshua 15:3) in the margin.
Acts Of The Apostles
the fifth book in the New testament and the second treatise by the author of the third Gospel,
traditionally known as Luke. The book commences with an inscription to one Theophilus, who was
probably a man of birth and station. The readers were evidently intended to be the members of the
Christian Church, whether Jews or Gentiles; for its contents are such as are of the utmost consequence
to the whole Church. They are the fulfillment of the promise of the Father by the descent of the
Holy Spirit, and the results of that outpouring by the dispersion of the gospel among the Jews and
Gentiles. Under these leading heads all the personal and subordinate details may be arranged. First
St. Peter becomes the prime actor under God int he founding of the Church. He is the centre of the
first group of sayings and doings. The opening of the door to Jews, ch. 2, and Gentiles, ch. 10, is
his office, and by him, in good time, is accomplished. Then the preparation of Saul of Tarsus for
the work to be done, the progress, in his hand, of that work, his journeyings, preachings and perils,
his stripes and imprisonments, his testifying in Jerusalem and being brought to testify in
Rome,—these are the subjects of the latter half of the book, of which the great central figure is the
apostle Paul. The history given in the Acts occupies about 33 years, and the reigns of the Roman
emperors Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero. It seems most probable that the place of writing
was Roma, and the time about two years from the date of St. Paul’s arrival there, as related in (Acts
28:30) This would give us fro the publication about 63 A.D.
Adadah
(festival or boundary), one of the cities in the extreme south of Judah, named with Dimonah
and Kedesh. (Joshua 15:22)
frankie
(Frankie)
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