Bible Cities

Land of Moriah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Genesis 22:2; 2 Chronicles 3:1. (See JEHOVAH JIREH; GERIZIM.) What Jehovah has made one see (this hophal mowreh occurs four times in the Pentateuch, nowhere in later books) "the vision of Jehovah". In the same neighborhood He vouchsafed a vision to Abram (Genesis 14; Genesis 15:1) after Melchizedek had met him in the valley near Salem and Abr...

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Lebanon Mountains in Naves Topical Bible

(A mountain range) -Northern boundary of the land of Canaan De 1:7; 3:25; 11:24; Jos 1:4; 9:1 -Early inhabitants of Jud 3:3 -Snow of Jer 18:14 -Streams of So 4:15 -Cedars of Jud 9:15; 2Ki 19:23; 2Ch 2:8; Ps 29:5; 104:16; Isa 2:13; 14:8; Eze 27:5 -Other trees of 2Ki 19:23; 2Ch 2:8 -Flower of Na 1:4 -Beasts of Isa 40:16 -Fertility ...

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Lebanon Mountains Scripture - Isaiah 37:24

By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, [and] the forest of his Carmel....

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Lycaonia in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

lik-a-o'-ni-a, li-ka-o'-ni-a (Lukaonia (Acts 14:6), Lukaonisti, (Acts 14:11, "in the speech of Lycaonia"); Lycaonia is meant, according to the South Galatian view, by the expression ten Galatiken choran, in Acts 18:23, and the incidents in Acts 16:1-4 belong to Lycaonia): Was a country in the central and southern part of Asia Minor whose boun...

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Lachish Scripture - Jeremiah 34:7

When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah....

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Lake of Gennesaret in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ge-nes'-a-ret. See GALILEE, SEA OF....

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Moriah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

bitterness of the Lord...

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Laodicea Scripture - Colossians 4:16

And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the [epistle] from Laodicea....

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