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3101 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, I.106
… whom the word of the prophet came: "Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them" ( Jeremiah 10 …
3102 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Athaliah.4
… is the murder of his six younger brothers; some princes of the realm, who were known to be favorable to the ancient faith of the nation, were also destroyed ( 2 …
3103 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Athaliah.5
… in the councils of the nation, as well as in the royal palace. Within a single year, the young king fell (see JEHU ), and the only persons who stood between Athaliah …
3104 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Augustus.3
… define the position of the new ruler of the state. He himself declined the names of rex and dictator, and in 27 BC he was by the decree of the Senate styled Augustus …
3105 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Baptism for the Dead.6
… into the Jewish mind, and it would not be surprising if it took more than twenty years for the leaven of the gospel to work all the Jew out of Paul. At least it serves …
3106 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Baptismal Regeneration.6
… (compare the language of the Church Catechism with the qualification mentioned in the Prayer-Book "Office for the Baptism of Those of Riper Years," "Whereby …
3107 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Barzillai.3
… 80 years of age, he declined David’s invitation to come to live in the capital, and sent instead his son Chimham ( 2 Samuel 19:31 - 39 ). David before his death charged …
3108 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Benjamin.3
… . At the time of the descent of Israel to Egypt Joseph was about 40 years of age. Benjamin was not much younger, and was himself the father of a family. The phrase …
3109 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bethel.7
… the demolition of the sanctuary at Bethel, destroying all the instruments of idolatry, and harr ying the tombs of the idolaters. The monument of the man of …
3110 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Between the Testaments.32
… 20 years, succeeded him, and thus the "great he-goat," of which Daniel had spoken ( Daniel 8:8; 10:20 ), appeared on the scene. In the twelve years of his reign (335-323 BC …
3111 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bible, The, I-III Introduction.73
… years. From the death of Moses till the reign of Artaxerxes, the successor of Xerxes, king of Persia, the prophets who followed Moses narrated the events …
3112 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bible, The, IV Canonicity.16
… , though the prophet’s mission itself was pre-Assyrian (9th century). The rebuilding of the temple after the return, under Zerubbabel, furnished the occasion …
3113 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bible, The, V Inspiration.11
… to the labors of Bible Societies, the circulation of the Bible in the different countries of the world in recent years outstrips all previous records. No …
3114 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bible, The, V Inspiration.14
… of the noblest monuments of the English language of its own, or any, age. Necessarily, however, the Greek text used by the translators ("Textus Receptus"), resting …
3115 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Blindness.4
… , and the cure by the gall of the fish is paralleled by the account given in Pliny (xxxii.24) where the gall of the fish Callionymus Lyra is recommended as an application …
3116 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Book.93
… Lands: The history of books begins at least with the history of writing. Some of the pictures on the cave walls of the neolithic age (Dechelette, Man: Archaeol …
3117 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Botany.13
… of the former cycles. At the present time there is some evidence that the rainfall has, on the whole, been increasing during the last 50 years and the cultivated …
3118 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Boy.2
… at the fourth year. He was expected to learn the Scriptures at five, the Mishna at ten, and to fulfill the whole law at thirteen. At twelve years he was expected …
3119 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Brethren of the Lord.3
… twelve years old. We know nothing of him after the narrative of the child Jesus in the temple. That there is no allusion to him in the account of the family in …
3120 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Canaan; Canaanites.30
… on the site of the towers of the first wall were filled with scarabs and other relics of the reign of Amon-hotep III (1440 BC). At Lachish the ruins of the third …