come, a shadow whereof the substance is Christ and his kingdom. The
principles on which it is to be interpreted are laid down in the Epistle to
the Hebrews. It contains in its complicated ceremonial the gospel of the
grace of God.
- LEVY (1 Kings 4:6, R.V.; 5:13), forced service. The service of tributaries
was often thus exacted by kings. Solomon raised a “great levy” of 30,000
men, about two per cent. of the population, to work for him by courses on
Lebanon. Adoram (12:18) presided over this forced labour service (Ger.
Frohndienst; Fr. corvee). - LEWDNESS (Acts 18:14), villany or wickedness, not lewdness in the
modern sense of the word. The word “lewd” is from the Saxon, and means
properly “ignorant,” “unlearned,” and hence low, vicious (Acts 17:5). - LIBERTINE found only Acts 6:9, one who once had been a slave, but
who had been set at liberty, or the child of such a person. In this case the
name probably denotes those descendants of Jews who had been carried
captives to Rome as prisoners of war by Pompey and other Roman
generals in the Syrian wars, and had afterwards been liberated. In A.D. 19
these manumitted Jews were banished from Rome. Many of them found
their way to Jerusalem, and there established a synagogue. - LIBNAH transparency; whiteness. (1.) One of the stations of the
Israelites in the wilderness (Numbers 33:20, 21).
(2.) One of the royal cities of the Canaanites taken by Joshua (Joshua
10:29-32; 12:15). It became one of the Levitical towns in the tribe of Judah
(21:13), and was strongly fortified. Sennacherib laid siege to it (2 Kings
19:8; Isaiah 37:8). It was the native place of Hamutal, the queen of Josiah
(2 Kings 23:31). It stood near Lachish, and has been identified with the
modern Arak el-Menshiyeh.
- LIBNI white, one of the two sons of Gershon, the son of Levi (Exodus
6:17; Numbers 3:18, 21). (See LAADAN Ø(n/a).) - LIBYA the country of the Ludim (Genesis 10:13), Northern Africa, a
large tract lying along the Mediterranean, to the west of Egypt (Acts 2:10).
Cyrene was one of its five cities. - LICE (Hebrews kinnim), the creatures employed in the third plague sent
upon Egypt (Exodus 8:16-18). They were miraculously produced from the