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1701 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Lamentations, Book of.4 (Matthew G. Easton)

… . In chapter Lamentations 2 these miseries are described in connection with the national sins that had caused them. Chapter Lamentations 3 speaks of hope …

1702 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Malachi, Prophecies of.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… four chapters. In the Hebrew text the third and fourth chapters (of the A.V.) form but one. The whole consists of three sections, preceded by an introduction ( Malachi …

1703 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Prophecy.4 (Matthew G. Easton)

… -eighth chapter of Deuteronomy contains a series of predictions which are even now in the present day being fulfilled. In the writings of the prophets Isaiah …

1704 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Samuel, Books of.3 (Matthew G. Easton)

… -four chapters of the first book. Gad, the companion of David ( 1 Samuel 22:5 ), continued the history thus commenced; and Nathan completed it, probably arranging …

1705 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Samuel, Books of.4 (Matthew G. Easton)

… Samuel 5-24 ), mainly in its political aspects. The last four chapters of Second Samuel may be regarded as a sort of appendix recording various events, but not …

1706 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Acts of the Apostles, 1-7.37

… through 5 the matter does not at first seem so clear, but these chapters are not necessarily discredited on that account. It is remarkable, as ancient historians …

1707 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Acts of the Apostles, 8-12.5

… 1:5 ) But the other events in the opening chapters of Acts have no clear chronological arrangement. The career of Stephen is merely located "in these days" ( Acts …

1708 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Acts of the Apostles, 8-12.6

… early chapters, as Paul is in the latter half of the book, but the correspondences are not remarkably striking. There exists in some minds a prejudice against …

1710 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.4

… of chapter 2. Man, created in God’s image, is given dominion over every animal, is allowed every herb and fruit tree for his sustenance, and is bidden multiply …

1711 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Agrarian Laws.16

… 25th chapter of Lev could only be put forward by one who had to work on what is so very rare in history--a clean slate. In other words, the system of land tenure here …

1712 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Amos (1).40

… Amos 5:18; and in chapter Amos 4:1 - 13, though the address at the outset is directed to the luxurious women of Samaria, from Amos 4:4 onward the words have a wider …

1713 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Amos (1).44

… succeeding chapters ( Amos 3:9 - 10; 4:1; Amos 5:11 - 12; Amos 8:4 - 6 ); and the luxury of the rich, who battened on the misfortune of their poorer brethren, is castigated in …

1714 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Antediluvian Patriarchs.12

… Genesis 5:1 - 32. In fact the resemblances between the six names in Genesis 4:17 - 18 with six in chapter 5 have from the first been the basis of every attempt to identify …

1715 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Anthropology.33

… later chapter, are called by the same name: Adam ( Genesis 5:2 ). Such is the scope of the first narrative. No wonder, then, that Scripture elsewhere calls the first …

1716 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocalyptic Literature, 1.6

… proper. Chapters 6 through 19 give an account of the fallen angels and Enoch’s relation to them. Chapters 20 through 36 narrate Enoch’s wanderings through …

1717 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocalyptic Literature, 1.9

… in chapters 72 through 91. This would seem to indicate that the earliest written portion was chapters 37 through 71; 92 through 107. Our view of the date of this …

1718 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocalyptic Literature, 1.10

… place chapters 1 through 36 before the Maccabean Struggle. According to our thinking the genuine Noachian fragments fall between these. The Book of Noah …

1719 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocalyptic Literature, 1.22

… of chapters 8 and 9; they ought to have been placed between chapters 4 and 5.

1720 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocalyptic Literature, 1.33

… last chapter proceeds from the same pen as do the opening chapters, and is combined with them by Fritzsche and called the Fifth Book of Esdras.