Bible History
Bible History
Choose a Category

Bible Cities

Megiddo in Hitchcock's Bible Names

his precious fruit; declaring a message...

Read More

Megiddo Scripture - 2 Kings 23:30

And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead....

Read More

Memphis in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Capital of Lower Egypt, on the W. or left bank of the Nile. Hebrew "Nowph" (Isaiah 19:13). "Mowph," or Memphis (Hosea 9:6). Second only to Thebes in all Egypt; the residence of the kings until the Ptolemies moved to Alexandria. Plutarch makes it mean "the port of good things," the sepulchre of Osiris, the necropolis of Egypt, "the haven of the...

Read More

Mahanaim Scripture - 2 Samuel 17:27

And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,...

Read More

Mahanaim Scripture - 1 Kings 4:14

Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim:...

Read More

Marah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ma'-ra, mar'-a (marah, "bitter"): The first camp of the Israelites after the passage of the Red Sea (Ex 15:23; Nu 33:8 f). The name is derived from the bitterness of the brackish water. Moses cast a tree into the waters which were thus made sweet (Ex 15:23). See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL....

Read More

Lydda in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a town in the tribe of Ephraim, mentioned only in the New Testament (Acts 9:32, 35, 38) as the scene of Peter's miracle in healing the paralytic AEneas. It lay about 9 miles east of Joppa, on the road from the sea-port to Jerusalem. In the Old Testament (1 Chr. 8:12) it is called Lod. It was burned by the Romans, but was afterwards rebuilt...

Read More

Lystra in Smiths Bible Dictionary

This place has two points of interest in connection respectively with St. Paul's first and second missionary Journeys: (1) as the place where divine honors were offered to him, and where he was presently stoned, Ac 14:1 ... (2) as the home of his chosen companion and fellow missionary Timotheus. Ac 16:1 Lystra was in the eastern part of the gr...

Read More

Lystra Scripture - Acts 14:8

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:...

Read More

Macedonia Scripture - 1 Thessalonians 4:10

And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;...

Read More

61 Bible Translations

Popular Articles

Explore the Bible Like Never Before!

Bible History Online

Bible Study Tools

Top Tags