ILLUSTRATED

Bible Dictionary

and treasury of

Biblical History, Biography, Geography, Doctrine, and Literature

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS

AND

IMPORTANT CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES AND MAPS

BY

M. G. EASTON, M.A., D.D.

NEW YORK

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS

1893

Copyright, 1893, by Harper & Brothers.

PREFACE

The Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible is the fruit of many years of loving labour. No pains have been spared to make it in all respects reliable and complete. The author has sought to embody in the work, in as compact a form as possible, the results of the most recent research in all departments of Biblical literature—doctrinal, historical, biographical, archæological, and geographical.

The learned research and criticism which resulted in the Revised Version of the Scriptures have, probably for the first time, been here utilized in a systematic way in a Bible Dictionary.

The abundant use of illustrations and sketch-maps, and the introduction of chronological and other tables, will, it is believed, be found to add greatly to the value of the book.

The author offers this work to the public in the hope that it may prove to be worthy of a place on the table of all students of the Bible, and particularly of those who are engaged in the religious instruction of the young in Sabbath schools, and be helpful as a convenient and trustworthy book of reference on all Biblical subjects. He has taken cognizance of modern controversies bearing on the character and claims of the Word of God and on the doctrines of the gospel, and, while avoiding everything of a sectarian character, has freely stated the conclusions he has reached, under the deep impression that further study and research will only the more fully confirm the truth of “those things which are most surely believed among us.”

May the Lord, whose Word this book is intended to elucidate, graciously vouchsafe His blessing with it, to His own glory!

M. G. E.

Darvel.

LIST OF BOOKS CONSULTED

The books the author has had occasion to consult in the preparation of this Dictionary have been very numerous. Besides those quoted or referred to in the work itself, the following may be mentioned:—

The Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statements.

The Memoirs of the Surrey of Western Palestine.

The Memoirs of the Egypt Exploration Fund.

The Negeb or South Country of Scripture, by Rev. E. Wilton, M.A.

The Desert of the Exodus, by E. H. Palmer, M.A.

Durch Gosen zum Sinai, von Dr. Georg Ebers.

Ægypten und die Bücher Mose’s, von Dr. Georg Ebers.

Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins.

Die Keilinschriften u. das Alte Testament, 2te A., von Eberhard Schrader.

Zeitschrift für Assyriologie u. Verwandte Gebiete.

Keilinschriften und Geschichtsforschung: Ein Beitrag zur Monumentalen Geographie der Assyrer, von Eberhard Schrader.

Die bibl. Altertümer, von Kinzler.

Die bibl. Naturgeschichte u. die bibl. Geographie, Herausg. von dem Calwer Verlagsverein.

Bibel-Atlas u. bibl. Geographie, von Dr. R. v. Riess.

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