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96441 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Christian.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… ( Acts 11:26; Acts 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16 ).

96442 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Chronicles, Books of.8 (Matthew G. Easton)

… Samuel 11; 2 Samuel 14-19, etc.), and includes many things peculiar to itself ( 1 Chronicles 12; 1 Chronicles 22; 1 Chronicles 23-26; 1 Chronicles 27; 1 Chronicles 28 …

96443 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Chronicles, Books of.10 (Matthew G. Easton)

The Books of Chronicles are ranked among the khethubim or hagiographa. They are alluded to, though not directly quoted, in the New Testament ( Hebrews 5:4; Matthew 12:42; Matthew 23:35; Luke 1:5; Luke 11:31, Luke 11:51 ).

96444 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Chronology.14 (Matthew G. Easton)

… Genesis 11:26; but a comparison of Genesis 11:32 and Acts 7:4 with Genesis 12:4 shows that when Terah died, at the age of two hundred and five years, Abraham was seventy …

96445 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Church.13 (Matthew G. Easton)

… ” ( Romans 11:18-24; comp. Ephesians 2:11-22 ). The apostles did not set up a new organization. Under their ministry disciples were “added” to the “church” already existing …

96446 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Cinnereth.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… ) Joshua 11:2. The phrase “all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali” in 1 Kings 15:20 is parallel to “the store-houses of the cities of Naphtali” (R.V. marg.) in 2 Chronicles …

96447 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Circumcision.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… 17:11 ). In compliance with the divine command, Abraham, though ninety-nine years of age, was circumcised on the same day with Ishmael, who was thirteen years old …

96448 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Circumcision.3 (Matthew G. Easton)

… 3:11 ). Some Jewish Christians sought to impose it, however, on the Gentile converts; but this the apostles resolutely resisted ( Acts 15:1; Galatians 6:12 ). Our Lord …

96449 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Circumcision.5 (Matthew G. Easton)

… 2:11 ). Circumcision as a symbol shadowing forth sanctification by the Holy Spirit has now given way to the symbol of baptism (q.v.). But the truth embodied in both …

96451 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. City.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… ; Genesis 11:3, Genesis 11:9; Genesis 36:31-39 ). The earliest description of a city is that of Sodom ( Genesis 19:1-22 ). Damascus is said to be the oldest existing city …

96452 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. City.3 (Matthew G. Easton)

… Chronicles 11:11; Deuteronomy 3:5 ). There was also within the city generally a tower to which the citizens might flee when danger threatened them ( Judges 9:46 …

96453 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. City.5 (Matthew G. Easton)

… Chronicles 11:5 ), the city of David. Bethlehem is also so called as being David’s native town ( Luke 2:4 ).

96454 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. City.6 (Matthew G. Easton)

Jerusalem is called the Holy City, the holiness of the temple being regarded as extending in some measure over the whole city ( Nehemiah 11:1 ).

96455 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Clay.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… ( Genesis 11:3 ). The “clay ground” in which the large vessels of the temple were cast ( 1 Kings 7:46; 2 Chronicles 4:17 ) was a compact loam fitted for the purpose. The expression …

96456 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Clean.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… Leviticus 11-15; Numbers 19. The division of animals into clean and unclean was probably founded on the practice of sacrifice. It existed before the Flood …

96457 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Clean.4 (Matthew G. Easton)

… ; Acts 11:1-10; Hebrews 9:9-14 .

96458 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Cloud.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… ; Numbers 11:25; Numbers 12:5; Job 22:14; Psalm 18:11 ). A “cloud without rain” is a proverbial saying, denoting a man who does not keep his promise ( Proverbs 16:15; Isaiah …

96459 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Cockatrice.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… ( Isaiah 11:8; Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 59:5; Jeremiah 8:17; in all which the Revised Version renders the Hebrew tziph˒oni by “basilisk”). In Proverbs 23:32 the Hebrew tzeph …

96460 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Coffer.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

Coffer — the receptacle or small box placed beside the ark by the Philistines, in which they deposited the golden mice and the emerods as their trespass-offering ( 1 Samuel 6:8, 1 Samuel 6:11, 1 Samuel 6:15 ).