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96061 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Aijalon.3
… 10:12 ). The Danites failed to take it from the Amorites ( Judges 1:35 ), although the men of Ephraim held it in vassalage. Here Saul and Jonathan won a great victory …
96062 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Aijalon.4
(2) A town in the tribe of Zebulun, site unknown, where Elon the judge was buried ( Judges 12:12 ).
96063 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Akatan.2
Akatan - ak’-a-tan (Akatan; the King James Version, Acatan = Hakkatan; Ezra 8:12 ): The father of Joannes who returned with Ezra to Jerusalem ( 1 Esdras 8:38 ).
96064 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alexandrians.4
… 10:12 ). The wood was evidently very precious and apparently came from East Asia--unless we suppose from 2 Chronicles 2:8 that it actually grew on Lebanon, which …
96065 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alienate.2
… 2:12; Colossians 1:21 ). The Greek allotrios, which is the root of the verb, is the opposite of id-i-os, "one’s own." The word implies a former state, whence the person or …
96066 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Allegiance.2
… Chronicles 12:29 ): the Revised Version, margin gives as literal meaning, "kept the charge of the house of Saul," which revisers consider figurative for "maintaining …
96067 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Allegory.2
… ; Ecclesiastes 12:3 - 7; John 10:1 - 16; Ephesians 6:11 - 17. According to traditional interpretation of both the Jewish exegesis and of the Catholic and Protestant …
96068 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alliance.6
4. The Monarchy: Prohibitory measures were adopted in the legal codes with a view to Jewish separateness and purity ( Exodus 23:32; 12, 15; Deuteronomy 7:2; compare Judges 2:2 - 3; Leviticus 18:3 - 4; 20:22 f).
96069 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alliance.7
… :2 - 12 ) and later on with Abner, which led to the consolidation of Judah and Israel into one kingdom ( 2 Samuel 3:17 - 21; 2 Samuel 5:1 - 3 ). It appears likewise that Toi, king …
96070 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alliance.9
… 20:12 - 18 ). These alliances resulted in the introduction of foreign cults into Jerusalem ( 2 Kings 16:10 - 11 ). During the reign of Manasseh, Yahwism was seriously …
96071 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alliance.10
… Maccabees 12:1; Ant, XIII, v, 8) and by Simon ( 1 Maccabees 15:17; Ant, XIII, vii, 3). Treaties were concluded with the Spartans ( 1 Maccabees 12:2; 14:20; Ant, XII, iv, 10; XIII, v, 8). The …
96072 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Almond.3
… :11 - 12 there is a play on the word, "And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree (shaqedh). Then said Yahweh unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will watch (shoqedh) over my word …
96073 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Almond.5
… Ecclesiastes 12:5, where in the description of old age it says "the almond-tree shall blossom." The reference is probably to the white hair of age. An almond tree …
96074 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alms; Almsgiving.5
… 29:12 ). The story of Tobit is especially in point: it is simply a lesson on almsgiving and its redeeming powers: "Alms delivers from death and will purge away all …
96075 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alms; Almsgiving.6
… Luke 12:33 the King James Version, and, compare Matthew 6:19 - 24 : "Sell that ye have and give alms," etc.). It seems to have been so regarded and kept up in the Christian …
96076 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alms; Almsgiving.8
… Tobit 12:8 ), namely, almsgiving ( Matthew 6:2, 4 ), prayer ( Matthew 6:5 - 15 ), and fasting ( Matthew 6:16 - 18 ). Jewish writers claim that these are "the three cardinal disciplines …
96077 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alms; Almsgiving.10
… Ecclesiastes 12:14 ).
96078 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alms; Almsgiving.11
… " ( Ecclesiastes 12:1 - 6; compare Didache 1:5,6). "He that gives a free offering should give with a well-meaning eye" (Yer. B.D. 4 11). Jesus’ words concerning the "single" and …
96079 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Along.2
… 6:12; Jeremiah 41:6, joined with "come" and "go," vividly describes a course that is taken--it emphasizes its directness and immediateness. In Judges 7:12, "lay along …
96080 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alpha and Omega.2
… .10-12. In Patristic and later literature the phrase is regularly applied to the Son. God blesses Israel from ’aleph to taw ( Leviticus 26:3 - 13 ), but curses from waw …