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4341 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Criticism.45
… Divine choice given to a place--a time represented in the history of Israel as about the time of David, or perhaps Solomon. This certainly does explain the situation …
4342 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. David.62
… the choice of declining the high destiny in store for him. Had he had the power to refuse what he believed to be the decree of Fate, he would hardly escape censure …
4343 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. David.82
… his choice of Jebus as the capital of the country--which it still continues to be after a lapse of three thousand years.
4344 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. David.86
… by choice ( 2 Samuel 3:39 ). He seems, indeed, to have continued Joab in his post because he felt he could not do without him. Joab was devoted to David with the devotion …
4345 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Dial of Ahaz.7
5. Hezekiah's Choice of the Sign
4346 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Dial of Ahaz.12
… the choice and exercised it of his own free will, as to whether a shadow should move in a particular direction or in the opposite. But there are no alternative …
4347 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Dial of Ahaz.15
… . Hezekiah's Choice of the Sign: We can therefore understand the nature of the choice of the sign that was offered by the prophet to the dying king. Would he choose …
4348 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elect.2
… ," "valuable," "choice"; often thus as a fact, in places where the King James Version uses "chosen" (or "elect") to translate the original (e.g. Isaiah 42:1; 1 Peter 2:6 ). In the …
4349 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Election.2
Election - e-lek'-shun (ekloge, "choice," "selection"):
4350 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Election.17
… and choice of them to be the people of God has no relation to their virtues, or to their strength. The reason lies out of sight, in the Divine mind. So too "the Israel …
4351 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Election.23
… Divine choice is sovereign; and also that "his tender mercies are over all his works," that `He willeth not the death of a sinner,' that "God is love." Let us relieve …
4352 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Epicureans.21
… every choice and of every aversion, and to it we come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge every good thing" (Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus …
4353 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Epistle.19
… contains choice specimens of personal and official letters, approximating in literary form the epistles of the New Testament. In each case they begin, like …
4354 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Esther.2
… . The choice fell upon the Jewish maiden. Soon after her accession a great crisis occurred in the history of the Jews. The entire people was threatened with …
4355 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethics, I.103
… deliberate choice of self in preference to God. It is personal and willful rebellion. It is to be overcome, therefore, not by the suppression of the body or the …
4356 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethics, II.6
… deliberate choice. Virtue is therefore an activity which at every point seeks to strike the mean between two opposite excesses. Plato's list of virtues …
4357 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethics, III.11
… fight choice of wisdom is represented as the dictate of piety not less than of prudence.
4358 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Eunice.5
… made choice of her son to be his companion in his missionary work. Eunice is not afterward mentioned in the New Testament; though it is a possible thing that …
4359 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fable.5
… the choice of AbimeItch as king with the fable of the trees that could find no tree that would accept the trouble of the kingship except the worthless bramble …
4360 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fall, The.16
… the choice, whether he would be faithful and obedient to God's word and would leave to Him alone the decision as to what is good or evil, or whether he would reserve …