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Joshua, The Book of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Contains a history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to that of Joshua. It consists of three parts: (1.) The history of the conquest of the land (1-12). (2.) The allotment of the land to...

Ruth The Book of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Was originally a part of the Book of Judges, but it now forms one of the twenty-four separate books of the Hebrew Bible. The history it contains refers to a period perhaps about one hundred and...

Isaiah, The Book of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Consists of prophecies delivered (Isa 1) in the reign of Uzziah (1-5), (2) of Jotham (6), (3) Ahaz (7-14:28), (4) the first half of Hezekiah's reign (14:28-35), (5) the second half of Hezekiah's...

Thorn in the flesh

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(2 Cor 12:7-10). Many interpretations have been given of this passage. (1.) Roman Catholic writers think that it denotes suggestions to impiety. (2.) Luther, Calvin, and other Reformers interpret...

Ephraim in the wilderness

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(John 11: 54), a town to which our Lord retired with his disciples after he had raised Lazarus, and when the priests were conspiring against him. It lay in the wild, uncultivated hill-country to...

Wars of the Lord, The Book of the

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Num 21:14, 15), some unknown book so called (comp. Gen 14:14-16; Ex 17:8-16; Num 14:40-45; 21:1-3, 21-25, 33-35, 31. The wars here recorded might be thus designated).

Colossians, Epistle to the

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Was written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment there (Acts 28:16, 30), probably in the spring of A.D. 57, or, as some think, 62, and soon after he had written his Epistle to the...

Law

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A rule of action. (1.) The Law of Nature is the will of God as to human conduct, founded on the moral difference of things, and discoverable by natural light (Rom 1:20; 2:14, 15). This law binds...

Romans, Epistle to the

Easton's Bible Dictionary

This epistle was probably written at Corinth. Phoebe (Rom 16:1) of Cenchrea conveyed it to Rome, and Gaius of Corinth entertained the apostle at the time of his writing it (16:23; 1 Cor 1:14), and...

Thessalonians, Epistles to the

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The first epistle to the Thessalonians was the first of all Paul's epistles. It was in all probability written from Corinth, where he abode a "long time" (Acts 18:11, 18), early in the period of...

Book

Easton's Bible Dictionary

This word has a comprehensive meaning in Scripture. In the Old Testament it is the rendering of the Hebrew word sepher, which properly means a "writing," and then a "volume" (Ex 17:14; Deut 28:58;...

Fear of the Lord the

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Is in the Old Testament used as a designation of true piety (Prov 1:7; Job 28:28; Ps 19:9). It is a fear conjoined with love and hope, and is therefore not a slavish dread, but rather filial...

Adam, the city of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Is referred to in Josh 3:16. It stood "beside Zarethan," on the west bank of Jordan (1 Kings 4:12). At this city the flow of the water was arrested and rose up "upon an heap" at the time of the...

Fountain of the Virgin

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The perennial source from which the Pool of Siloam (q.v.) is supplied, the waters flowing in a copious stream to it through a tunnel cut through the rock, the actual length of which is 1,750 feet....

Mount of the Amalekites

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A place near Pirathon (q.v.), in the tribe of Ephraim (Judg 12:15).

Mount of the Amorites

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The range of hills which rises abruptly in the wilderness of et-Tih ("the wandering"), mentioned Deut 1:19, 20 "that great and terrible wilderness."

Oreb, The rock of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The place where Gideon slew Oreb after the defeat of the Midianites (Judg 7:25; Isa 10:26). It was probably the place now called Orbo, on the east of Jordan, near Bethshean.

Salt, The city of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

One of the cities of Judah (Josh 15:62), probably in the Valley of Salt, at the southern end of the Dead Sea.

Shallecheth, The gate of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

I.e., "the gate of casting out," hence supposed to be the refuse gate; one of the gates of the house of the Lord, "by the causeway of the going up" i.e., the causeway rising up from the Tyropoeon...

Shinar, The Land of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

LXX. and Vulgate "Senaar;" in the inscriptions, "Shumir;" probably identical with Babylonia or Southern Mesopotamia, extending almost to the Persian Gulf. Here the tower of Babel was built (Gen...

Corinthians, Second Epistle to the

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense excitement had been aroused against him, the evidence of his great success, and proceeded to Macedonia....

Canaan, the language of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Mentioned in Isa 19:18, denotes the language spoken by the Jews resident in Palestine. The language of the Canaanites and of the Hebrews was substantially the same. This is seen from the fragments...

Harosheth of the Gentiles

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Judg 4:2) or nations, a city near Hazor in Galilee of the Gentiles, or Upper Galilee, in the north of Palestine. It was here that Jabin's great army was marshalled before it went forth into the...

Kings, The Books of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. The present division into two books was first made by the LXX., which now, with the Vulgate, numbers them as the...

Maccabees, Books of the

Easton's Bible Dictionary

There were originally five books of the Maccabees. The first contains a history of the war of independence, commencing (B.C. 175) in a series of patriotic struggles against the tyranny of Antiochus...

Perseverance of the saints

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Their certain continuance in a state of grace. Once justified and regenerated, the believer can neither totally nor finally fall away from grace, but will certainly persevere therein and attain...

Ramath of the south

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Heb. Ramath-negeb). The Heb. negeb is the general designation for south or south-west of Judah. This was one of the towns of Simeon (Josh 19:8). It is the same as "south Ramoth" (1 Sam 30:27;...

Resurrection of the dead

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Will be simultaneous both of the just and the unjust (Dan 12:2; John 5:28, 29 Rom 2:6-16; 2 Thess 1:6-10). The qualities of the resurrection body will be different from those of the body laid in...

Simeon, The tribe of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Was "divided and scattered" according to the prediction in Gen 49:5-7. They gradually dwindled in number, and sank into a position of insignificance among the other tribes. They decreased in the...

Sinim, The land of

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Isa 49:12), supposed by some to mean China, but more probably Phoenicia (Gen 10:17) is intended.

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