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4381 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.53
… right choice in perplexity might be expected from gods so close to human need as were the Greek gods. The Homeric poems depicted the gods as appearing to men …
4382 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Guilt.9
… or choices with Paul. He sees it as a power that comes to rule a man's life and that rules in the race. The question therefore arises, Does Paul think of guilt also …
4383 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Har-magedon.2
… the choice of this as the arena of the last mighty struggle between the powers of good and evil. The choice of the hill as the battlefield has been criticized …
4384 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Heresy.2
… for "choice," then, "a chosen course of procedure," and afterward of various schools and tendencies. Polybius refers to those devoting themselves to the study …
4385 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Herod.2
… arbitrary choice varying from what was common to all believers, becomes an inconsistency and a sin to be warned against. Ellicott, on Galatians 5:20, correctly …
4386 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. High Place.2
… the choice of a hilltop for the Temple was based on considerations other than convenience and visibility. (But bamah is not used of the Temple Mount.)
4387 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hosea.37
… a choice between Yahweh and Baal appealed to the sense of patriotism and the sentiment of national existence. The worship of the ba`als, however, was an older …
4388 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hosea.48
… . The choice of Israel to be a peculiar people is the fundamental note in both ( Deuteronomy 4:37; 7:6; 10:15; 14:2; 26:18; Hosea 12:9; 13:4 ). God's tender care and fatherly …
4389 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hospitality; Host.7
… own choice of hosts ( Matthew 10:11 ) and may stay as long as they choose ( Luke 10:7 ). In this case, however, the claims of the travelers to hospitality are accentuated …
4390 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Image.8
… right choice, rather than with a complete character given from the first; and (b) to think of the Divine image (though seriously defaced) as continuing even in …
4391 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Immanuel.3
… , a choice of their own, upon the throne of David. To this end they waged war against Judah, advancing as far as Jerusalem itself, but without complete success …
4392 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Interpretation.5
… style, choice of words, etc., but in the whole form of thought also. There are such things as a Pauline, a Johannine and a Petrine type of Christian thought, although …
4393 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Isaac.24
… Rebekah's choice and coming are rehearsed, are, first, the brief genealogical paragraph that informs the reader of the development of Nahor's family just …
4394 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, History Of, 3.58
… the choice now fell on Jehoahaz, a younger son of Josiah, called by Jeremiah (22:11) Shallum. But he found no favor with Necho, who took him prisoner in his camp at …
4395 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.73
… free choice and will, and to which the people voluntarily gave their assent, is not an idea of later date in the religious history of Israel, which grew out of …
4396 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Issues.2
Issues - ish'-uz (tots'-oth, literally, "outgoings"): (1) Ways of escape ( Psalms 68:20 the King James Version); (2) free moral choices ( Proverbs 4:23 ).
4397 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jacob (1).38
… Jacob's choice but Laban's fraud that introduced this cause of schism. At the end of his 7 years' labor Jacob received as wife not Rachel but Leah, on the belated …
4398 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jacob (1).56
… Jacob's choice, evidently for the first time, of his fathers' God as his God. And though we find Jacob later tolerating idolatry in his household and compromising …
4399 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jacob (1).68
… this choice involved the rejection of Esau. Yahweh appeared to Jacob at Beth-el and told him the land of Canaan was to be his and his seed's after him forever …
4400 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jacob (1).70
… this choice of Jacob and rejection of Esau was made by God even before these twin sons of Isaac and Rebecca were born. Finally, the author of He, when charting …