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8121 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jehu.15
… for Yahweh" was too largely a cloak for merely worldly ambition. The bloodshed in which his rule was rounded early provoked a reaction, and his closing years …
8122 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jehucal.2
… meaning "Yahweh is able"): A courtier sent by King Zedekiah to Jeremiah to ask the prophet to pray for the king and the people ( Jeremiah 37:3 ). Most versions except …
8123 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jekamiah.2
Jekamiah - jek-am-mi'-a (yeqamyah, "may Yahweh establish"):
8124 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jephthah.2
… signifying "Yahweh will open"; Iephthae; used as the name of a place, as in Joshua 15:43; 19:14; of a man, Judges 10:6 through Judges 12:7 ): Ninth judge of the Israelites …
8125 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jephthah.3
… to Yahweh whatsoever should first come from his doors to greet him upon his return ( Judges 11:29 - 31 ). The battle is fought, Jephthah is the victor, and now his vow …
8126 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeremiah (1).2
… ), whom Yahweh casts," i.e. possibly, as Gesenius suggests, "appoints" (A. B. Davidson in HDB, II, 569a), and "Yahweh looseneth" (the womb); see BDB ): The form (b) is used of Jeremiah …
8127 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeremiah (2).11
… either "Yahweh hurls" or "Yahweh founds." Septuagint reads Iermias, and the Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) Jeremias. As this name also occurs not infrequently …
8128 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeremiah (2).13
… serve Yahweh, and soon inaugurated his reformation according to the law of Yahweh (in the 18th year of his reign), yet Jeremiah, at the time when he was called …
8129 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeremiah (2).16
… of Yahweh, if the people should insist upon their undertaking (42:1 ff). But they insisted and even compelled the aged prophet to go with them (43:1 ff). Their first …
8130 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeremiah (2).18
… from Yahweh, the idolatry, which was practiced on bamoth, or the "high places" by Judah, as this had been done by Israel. Many heathenish abuses had found their …
8131 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeremiah (2).21
… words "Yahweh our righteousness" ( Jeremiah 23:6; 33:16 ). However, we must not over-estimate the idealism of Jeremiah. He believed in a realistic restoration of …
8132 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeremiah (2).23
… of Yahweh, he dictated all of the prophecies he had spoken down to this time to his pupil Baruch, who wrote them on a roll. After the destruction of this book-roll …
8133 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeriah.2
Jeriah - je-ri'-a (yeriyahu, "founded of Yahweh"): In 1 Chronicles 23:19; 24:23 = "Jerijah" (yeriyah), 26:31, head of a Levitical house: called chief of the Hebronites in 24:23 (compare 24:30).
8134 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeroboam.15
… of Yahweh, and set them up in the sanctuaries at Bethel and Dan, where altars and other sacred objects already existed. It appears that many of the priests still …
8135 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeroboam.26
… that Yahweh would raise the sword against the house of Jeroboam. ( Amos 7:9 ). On hearing his denunciation, made probably as he stood beside the altar, Amaziah, the …
8136 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeroboam.27
… . But Yahweh sent Israel a "saviour" ( 2 Kings 13:5 ), associated by some with the Assyrian king Ramman-nirari III, who crushed Damascus, an left Syria an easy prey, first …
8137 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jerusalem, 4.7
… of Yahweh was brought from the house of Obed-edom and lodged in a tent ( 2 Samuel 6:17 ) in the "city of David" (compare 1 Kings 8:1 ). The threshing-floor of Araunah ( 2 Samuel …
8138 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jerusalem, 4.11
Although Solomon built so magnificent a house for Yahweh, he erected in the neighborhood shrines to other local gods ( 1 Kings 11:7 - 8 ), a lapse ascribed largely to the influence of his foreign wives and consequent foreign alliances.
8139 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jerusalem, 4.13
… of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house" and "all the shields of gold which Solomon had made" ( 1 Kings 14:26 ).
8140 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jerusalem, 4.15
… of Yahweh, as a consequence of which the Syrians under Hazael came against Judah and Jerusalem, slew the princes and spoiled the land, Joash giving him much …