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2961 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Abraham.9 (Matthew G. Easton)
… as the “children of the east” ( Judges 6:3 ), and later as “Saracens.” At length all his wanderings came to an end. At the age of 175 years, 100 years after he had first entered …
2962 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Adam.6 (Matthew G. Easton)
… the names of only three of Adam’s sons, viz., Cain, Abel, and Seth, yet it is obvious that he had several sons and daughters ( Genesis 5:4 ). He died aged 930 years.
2963 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Agrippa II..2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… died (the last of his race) at Rome, at the age of about seventy years, 100.
2964 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Ahaz.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… at the age of thirty-five years, after reigning sixteen years ( 740-724), and was succeeded by his son Hezekiah. Because of his wickedness he was “not brought into …
2965 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Amram.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… was the father of Aaron, Miriam, and Moses ( Exodus 6:18, Exodus 6:20; Numbers 3:19 ). He died in Egypt at the age of 137 years ( Exodus 6:20 ). His descendants were called Amramites …
2966 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Anna.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… attended the temple services. When she was eighty-four years old, she entered the temple at the moment when the aged Simeon uttered his memorable words of …
2967 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Arphaxad.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… to the Jewish historian Josephus, the progenitor of the Chaldeans. The tendency is to recognize in the word the name of the country nearest the ancient domain …
2968 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Asa.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… old age, when afflicted, he “sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians” (comp. Jeremiah 17:5 ). He died in the forty-first year of his reign, greatly honoured by his …
2969 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Caleb.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
… the land in the second year after the Exodus. He was one of the family chiefs of the tribe of Judah. He and Joshua the son of Nun were the only two of the whole …
2970 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Calf.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
… to the people till the time of their captivity. The calf at Dan was carried away in the reign of Pekah by Tiglath-pileser, and that at Bethel ten years later, in …
2971 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Chedorlaomer.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… Ellasar). The king of Larsa was Eri-Aku (“the servant of the moon-god”), the son of an Elamite prince, Kudur-Mabug, who is entitled “the father of the land of the Amorites …
2972 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Child.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… at the time when he was probably about sixteen years of age ( Genesis 37:3 ); and Benjamin is so called when he was above thirty years ( Genesis 44:20 ). Solomon called …
2973 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Child.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
… three years old; and the day on which they were weaned was kept as a festival day ( Genesis 21:8; Exodus 2:7, Exodus 2:9; 1 Samuel 1:22-24; Matthew 21:16 ). At the age of five …
2974 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Chronology.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… , the plan has been adopted of reckoning the years from the ages of the patriarchs before the birth of their first-born sons for the period from the Creation …
2975 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Chronology.14 (Matthew G. Easton)
… thirty years when Abraham was born. Thus, including the two years from the Flood to the birth of Arphaxad, the period from the Flood to the birth of Abraham was …
2976 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Circumcision.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… from the time of the settlement in Canaan till the time of Christ, about 1,450 years. The Jews prided themselves in the possession of this covenant distinction …
2977 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Daniel.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… the vessels of the temple. There he was obliged to enter into the service of the king of Babylon, and in accordance with the custom of the age received the Chaldean …
2978 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Daniel.7 (Matthew G. Easton)
… till the “end of the days.” The time and circumstances of his death are not recorded. He probably died at Susa, about eighty-five years of age.
2979 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. David.5 (Matthew G. Easton)
… the side of the king. On his arrival in the camp of Israel, David (now about twenty years of age) was made aware of the state of matters when the champion of the Philistines …
2980 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. David.25 (Matthew G. Easton)
After a reign of forty years and six months ( 2 Samuel 5:5; 1 Chronicles 3:4 ) David died ( B.C. 1015) at the age of seventy years, “and was buried in the city of David.” His tomb is still pointed out on Mount Zion.