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2941 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Gideon.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… , and the Midianites (q.v.) and Amalekites, with other “children of the east,” crossed the Jordan each year for seven successive years for the purpose of plundering …
2942 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Hannah.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… the child was weaned (probably in his third year) she brought him to Shiloh into the house of the Lord, and said to Eli the aged priest, “Oh my lord, I am the woman …
2943 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Herod Agrippa I..2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… was the costly brilliant material. It was early in the day, and the sun’s rays fell on the king, so that the eyes of the beholders were dazzled with the brightness …
2944 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Host.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… fifty years of age was bound by the law to bear arms when necessary ( Numbers 1:3; Numbers 26:2; 2 Chronicles 25:5 ).
2945 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Isaac.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
… in the land of Moriah ( Genesis 22 ). (See ABRAHAM .) When he was forty years of age Rebekah was chosen for his wife ( Genesis 24 ). After the death and burial of his father …
2946 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Ish-Bosheth.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… forty years of age when his father and three brothers fell at the battle of Gilboa. Through the influence of Abner, Saul’s cousin, he was acknowledged as successor …
2947 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Ishmael.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… -six years of age, eleven years after his arrival in Canaan ( Genesis 16:3; Genesis 21:5 ). At the age of thirteen he was circumcised ( Genesis 17:25 ). He grew up a true child …
2948 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Ishmael.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… all the state of a Bedouin prince, gathered before the cave of Machpelah, in the midst of the men of Heth, to pay the last duties to the ‘father of the faithful,’ would …
2949 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Jacob.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 160 years of age, Jacob and his mother conspired to deceive the aged patriarch ( Genesis 27 ), with the view of procuring the transfer of the birthright to himself …
2950 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Jehoash.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… years of age, and crowned and anointed him king of Judah with the usual ceremonies. Athaliah was taken by surprise when she heard the shout of the people …
2951 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Jehoiachin.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… was the last direct heir to the Jewish crown. He was carried captive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, along with the flower of the nobility, all the leading men …
2952 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Jehoshaphat.10 (Matthew G. Easton)
… -five years, being sixty years of age, and was succeeded by his son Jehoram ( 1 Kings 22:50 ). He had this testimony, that “he sought the Lord with all his heart” ( 2 Chronicles …
2953 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Jeremiah.9 (Matthew G. Easton)
… besieged the city ( Jeremiah 37:4, Jeremiah 37:5 ), B.C. 589. The rumour of the approach of the Egyptians to aid the Jews in this crisis induced the Chaldeans to withdraw …
2954 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Jesus.6 (Matthew G. Easton)
The life of Jesus on earth may be divided into two great periods, (1) that of his private life, till he was about thirty years of age; and (2) that of his public life, which lasted about three years.
2955 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Jesus.7 (Matthew G. Easton)
… .). At the age of twelve years he went up to Jerusalem to the Passover with his parents. There, in the temple, “in the midst of the doctors,” all that heard him were “astonished …
2956 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Jesus.9 (Matthew G. Easton)
… three years. “Each of these years had peculiar features of its own. (1.) The first year may be called the year of obscurity, both because the records of it which we …
2957 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Job.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… survived the period of trial for one hundred and forty years, and died in a good old age, an example to succeeding generations of integrity ( Ezekiel 14:14, Ezekiel …
2958 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Jonathan.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
(2.) The eldest son of king Saul, and the bosom friend of David. He is first mentioned when he was about thirty years of age, some time after his father’s accession …
2959 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Joseph.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… by the children of nobles. This seems to be the correct rendering of the words. The phrase, however, may also be rendered, “a coat of many pieces”, i.e., a patchwork …
2960 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Joseph.5 (Matthew G. Easton)
… Asenath, the daughter of the priest of On, and thus became a member of the priestly class. Joseph was now about thirty years of age.