Category: History - Religious
mentioned in Judges iii. 19 (R.V. margin) is to be identified with it. Among this class of sacred objects must be mentioned the obscure _Mazzebah_, translated in the margin of the Revised Version, "Obelisk." The use of the Mazzebah is strictly forbidden in Exod. xxxiv. 13, as...
mentioned in Judges iii. 19 (R.V. margin) is to be identified with it. Among this class of sacred objects must be mentioned the obscure _Mazzebah_, translated in the margin of t...
2. v. 24; with which may be compared the practice of oracular decisionby the rustling of the famous oaks of Delphi. With this species of tree-worship we must compare the use of the Asherah mentioned as a sacred symbol in Judges vi. 25; this is exp...
3. xiv. 7), "the spring of judgment," would seem to indicate that springswere used for the purpose of obtaining oracles, but by what signs this was effected is not known. The name of the spring in Gen. xvi. 14, where the angel appeared to Hagar, is s...
4. vi. 33-38 shows that Kohathite and Korahite are the same), have commonfeatures, as have also the Psalms ascribed to Asaph, which imply that they are at least guild collections; but their exalted conception of God, their consciousness of national r...
5. lxi. 1, 2); and the evangelist Matthew sees in the methods of Jesus afulfilment of the prophecy of the Servant (Matt. xii. 18-21; Isa. xlii. 1-4). It was probably as Jesus saw the clouds gather about His life and disaster began to threaten that H...