The name of a person to whom Agur's words are addressed
Pr 30:1
The Eulaus of the Greeks; a river of Susiana. It was
probably the eastern branch of the Choasper (Kerkhan), which divided into two
branches some 20 miles above the city of Susa. Hence Daniel Da 8:2,16 speaks of
standing "between the banks of Ulai", i.e., between the two streams
of the divided river.
Vicinity, a town of Asher Jos 19:30
1Jo 2:20,27 R.V., "anointing". Kings, prophets,
and priests were anointed, in token of receiving divine grace. All believers
are, in a secondary sense, what Christ was in a primary sense, "the Lord's
anointed."
Described as an animal of great ferocity and strength Nu
23:22 R.V., "wild ox, "marg., "ox-antelope; "Nu 24:8 Isa
34:7 R.V., "wild oxen", and untamable Job 39:9 It was in reality a
two-horned animal; but the exact reference of the word so rendered (reem) is
doubtful. Some have supposed it to be the buffalo; others, the white antelope,
called by the Arabs rim. Most probably, however, the word denotes the Bos
primigenius ("primitive ox"), which is now extinct all over the
world. This was the auerochs of the Germans, and the urus described by Caesar
(Gal. Bel., vi.28) as inhabiting the Hercynian forest. The word thus rendered
has been found in an Assyrian inscription written over the wild ox or bison,
which some also suppose to be the animal intended (comp.) De 33:17 Ps 22:21
29:6 92:10
Afficted.
1. A Levite whom David appointed to take part in bringing
the ark up to Jerusalem from the house of Obed-edom by playing the psaltery on
that occasion 1Ch 15:18,20
2. A Levite who returned with Zerubbabel from the
Captivity Ne 12:9
And they divide, one of the words written by the
mysterious hand on the wall of Belshazzar's palace Da 5:25 It is a pure
Chaldean word. "Peres" is only a simple form of the same word.
Probably another name for Ophir Jer 10:9 Some, however,
regard it as the name of an Indian colony in Yemen, southern Arabia; others as
a place on or near the river Hyphasis (now the Ghana), the south-eastern limit
of the Punjaub.
Light, or the moon city, a city "of the Chaldees,
"the birthplace of Haran Ge 11:28,31 the largest city of Shinar or
northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial centre of the country as well as
the centre of political power. It stood near the mouth of the Euphrates, on its
western bank, and is represented by the mounds (of bricks cemented by bitumen)
of el-Mugheir, i.e., "the bitumined, "or "the town of bitumen,
"now 150 miles from the sea and some 6 miles from the Euphrates, a little
above the point where it receives the Shat el-Hie, an affluent from the Tigris.
It was formerly a maritime city, as the waters of the Persian Gulf reached thus
far inland. Ur was the port of Babylonia, whence trade was carried on with the
dwellers on the gulf, and with the distant countries of India, Ethiopia, and
Egypt. It was abandoned about B.C. 500 but long continued, like Erech, to be a
great sacred cemetery city, as is evident from the number of tombs found there.
See ABRAHAM The oldest king of Ur known to us is Ur-Ba'u
(servant of the goddess Ba'u), as Hommel reads the name, or Ur-Gur, as others
read it. He lived some twenty-eight hundred years B.C., and took part in
building the famous temple of the moon-god Sin in Ur itself. The illustration
here given represents his cuneiform inscription, written in the Sumerian
language, and stamped upon every brick of the temple in Ur. It reads:
"Ur-Ba'u, king of Ur, who built the temple of the moon-god." "Ur
was consecrated to the worship of Sin, the Babylonian moon-god. It shared this
honour, however, with another city, and this city was Haran, or Harran. Harran
was in Mesopotamia, and took its name from the highroad which led through it
from the east to the west. The name is Babylonian, and bears witness to its
having been founded by a Babylonian king. The same witness is still more
decisively borne by the worship paid in it to the Babylonian moon-god and by
its ancient temple of Sin. Indeed, the temple of the moon-god at Harran was
perhaps even more famous in the Assyrian and Babylonian world than the temple
of the moon-god at Ur. "Between Ur and Harran there must, consequently,
have been a close connection in early times, the record of which has not yet
been recovered. It may be that Harran owed its foundation to a king of Ur; at
any rate the two cities were bound together by the worship of the same deity,
the closest and most enduring bond of union that existed in the ancient world.
That Terah should have migrated from Ur to Harran, therefore, ceases to be
extraordinary. If he left Ur at all, it was the most natural place to which to
go. It was like passing from one court of a temple into another. "Such a
remarkable coincidence between the Biblical narrative and the evidence of
archaeological research cannot be the result of chance. The narrative must be
historical; no writer of late date, even if he were a Babylonian, could have
invented a story so exactly in accordance with what we now know to have been
the truth. For a story of the kind to have been the invention of Palestinian tradition
is equally impossible. To the unprejudiced mind there is no escape from the
conclusion that the history of the migration of Terah from Ur to Harran is
founded on fact" (Sayce).
The Lord is my light.
1. A Hittite, the husband of Bathsheba, whom David first
seduced, and then after Uriah's death married. He was one of the band of
David's "mighty men." The sad story of the curel wrongs inflicted
upon him by David and of his mournful death are simply told in the sacred
record 2Sa 11:2-27 12:1-26 See BATHSHEBA See DAVID
2. A priest of the house of Ahaz Isa 8:2
3. The father of Meremoth, mentioned in Ezr 8:33
God is my light.
1. A Levite of the family of Kohath 1Ch 6:24
2. The chief of the Kohathites at the time when the ark
was brought up to Jerusalem 1Ch 15:5,11
3. The father of Michaiah, one of Rehoboam's wives, and
mother of Abijah 2Ch 13:2
The lord is my light.
1. A high priest in the time of Ahaz 2Ki 16:10-16 at
whose bidding he constructed an idolatrous altar like one the king had seen at
Damascus, to be set up instead of the brazen altar.
2. One of the priests who stood at the right hand of
Ezra's pulpit when he read and expounded the law Ne 8:4
3. A prophet of Kirjath-jearim in the reign of Jehoiakim,
king of Judah Jer 26:20-23 He fled into Egypt from the cruelty of the king, but
having been brought back he was beheaded and his body "cast into the
graves of the common people."
Lights (Vulg. "doctrina; "LXX.
"revelation").
See THUMMIM
The sum paid for the use of money, hence interest; not,
as in the modern sense, exorbitant interest. The Jews were forbidden to exact
usury Le 25:36,37 only, however, in their dealings with each other De 23:19,20
The violation of this law was viewed as a great crime Ps 15:5 Pr 28:8 Jer 15:10
After the Return, and later, this law was much neglected Ne 5:7,10
Fertile land.
1. The son of Aram, and grandson of Shem Ge 10:23 1Ch
1:17
2. One of the Horite "dukes" in the land of
Edom Ge 36:28
3. The eldest son of Nahor, Abraham's brother Ge 22:21
R.V.
A wanderer, a descendant of Joktan Ge 10:27 1Ch 1:21 the
founder apparently of one of the Arab tribes; the name also probably of the
province they occupied and of their chief city.
Where Job lived Job 1:1 Jer 25:20 La 4:21 probably
somewhere to the east or south-east of Palestine and north of Edom. It is
mentioned in Scripture only in these three passages.
Strengh, a garden in which Manasseh and Amon were buried
2Ki 21:18,26 It was probably near the king's palace in Jerusalem, or may have
formed part of the palace grounds. Manasseh may probably have acquired it from
some one of this name.
Strength, a son of Abinadab, in whose house the men of
Kirjath-jearim placed the ark when it was brought back from the land of the
Philistines 1Sa 7:1 2Sa 6:3 He with his brother Ahio drove the cart on which
the ark was placed when David sought to bring it up to Jerusalem. When the oxen stumbled, Uzzah, in direct
violation of the divine law Nu 4:15 put forth his hand to steady the ark, and
was immediately smitten unto death. The place where this occurred was
henceforth called Perez-uzzah 1Ch 13:11 David on this feared to proceed
further, and placed the ark in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite 2Sa 6:2-11
1Ch 13:6-13
A town probably near Beth-horon. It derived its name from
the daughter of Ephraim 1Ch 7:24
The Lord is my strength.
1. The son of Bukki, and a descendant of Aaron 1Ch 6:5,51
Ezr 7:4
2. A grandson of Issachar 1Ch 7:2,3
3. A son of Bela, and grandson of Benjamin 1Ch 7:7
4. A Benjamite, a chief in the tribe 1Ch 9:8
5. A son of Bani. He had the oversight of the Levites after
the return from captivity Ne 11:22
6. The head of the house of Jedaiah, one of "the
chief of the priests" Ne 12:19
7. A priest who assisted in the dedication of the walls
of Jerusalem Ne 12:42
A contracted form of Azari'ah the Lord is my strength.
1. One of Amaziah's sons, whom the people made king of
Judah in his father's stead 2Ki 14:21 2Ch 26:1 His long reign of about
fifty-two years was "the most prosperous excepting that of Jehosaphat
since the time of Solomon." He was a vigorous and able ruler, and
"his name spread abroad, even to the entering in of Egypt" 2Ch
26:8,14 In the earlier part of his reign, under the influence of Zechariah, he
was faithful to Jehovah, and "did that which was right in the sight of the
Lord" 2Ki 15:3 2Ch 26:4,5 but toward the close of his long life "his
heart was lifted up to his destruction, "and he wantonly invaded the
priest's office 2Ch 26:16 and entering the sanctuary proceeded to offer incense
on the golden altar. Azariah the high priest saw the tendency of such a daring
act on the part of the king, and with a band of eighty priests he withstood him
2Ch 26:17 saying, "It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn
incense." Uzziah was suddenly struck with leprosy while in the act of
offering incense 2Ch 26:19-21 and he was driven from the temple and compelled
to reside in "a several house" to the day of his death 2Ki 15:5,27
2Ch 26:3 He was buried in a separate grave "in the field of the burial
which belonged to the kings" 2Ki 15:7 2Ch 26:23 "That lonely grave in
the royal necropolis would eloquently testify to coming generations that all
earthly monarchy must bow before the inviolable order of the divine will, and
that no interference could be tolerated with that unfolding of the purposes of
God, which, in the fulness of time, would reveal the Christ, the true High
Priest and King for evermore" (Dr. Green's Kingdom of Israel, etc.).
2. The father of Jehonathan, one of David's overseers 1Ch
27:25
Strength of God.
1. One of the sons of Kohath, and uncle of Aaron Ex 6:18
Le 10:4
2. A Simeonite captain 1Ch 4:39-43
3. A son of Bela, and grandson of Benjamin 1Ch 7:7
4. One of the sons of Heman 1Ch 25:4 called also Azareel
1Ch 25:18
5. A son of Jeduthan 2Ch 29:14
6. The son of Harhaiah Ne 3:8