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Ashpenaz in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Daniel 1:3...

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Armoni in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Saul's son by Rizpah (2 Samuel 21:8). Slain to appease the Gibeonites, whose blood Saul had shed....

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Artaxerxes in Naves Topical Bible

1. A Persian king probably identical with AHASUERUS Prohibits the rebuilding of Jerusalem Ezr 4:7-24 -2. King of Persia. Decree of, in behalf of the Jews Ezr 7; Ne 2; 5:14...

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Asa in Easton's Bible Dictionary

physician, son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam, was the third king of Judah. He was zealous in maintaining the true worship of God, and in rooting all idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities, out of the land (1 Kings 15:8-14). The Lord gave him and his land rest and prosperity. It is recorded of him, however, that in his old age, ...

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Asahel in Hitchcock's Bible Names

creature of God...

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Asher in Naves Topical Bible

1. Son of Jacob, by Zilpah Ge 30:13; 35:26; 49:20; Ex 1:4; 1Ch 2:2 Descendants of Ge 46:17; Nu 26:44-47 -2. Tribe of: Census of, by families Nu 1:40,41; 26:44-47; 1Ch 7:40; 12:36 Station of, in camp Nu 2:25,27 Prophecies concerning By Moses De 33:24,25 By John Re 7:6 Allotment to, of land in Canaan Jos 19:24-31; Eze 48:2 Upbraided by...

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Ashkenaz in Easton's Bible Dictionary

one of the three sons of Gomer (Gen. 10:3), and founder of one of the tribes of the Japhetic race. They are mentioned in connection with Minni and Ararat, and hence their original seat must have been in Armenia (Jer. 51:27), probably near the Black Sea, which, from their founder, was first called Axenus, and afterwards the Euxine....

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Ashurbanipal in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

a-shoor-ba'-ne-pal (Ashur-bani-apal, "Ashur creates a son"): Before setting out on his last campaign to Egypt, Esarhaddon king of Assyria doubtless having had some premonition that his days were numbered, caused his son Ashurbanipal to be acknowledged the crown prince of Assyria (668 BC). At the same time he proclaimed his son Shamash-shum-uki...

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Arphaxad in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ar-fak'-sad: (1) the King James Version form (Gen 10:22,24; 11:12,13; 1 Ch 1:17) of the Revised Version (British and American) ARPACHSHAD, which see. See also TABLE OF NATIONS. (2) In Apocrypha (Judith 1) a king of the Medes, who reigned in Ecbatana. He was defeated and slain by Nebuchadrezzar....

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Artaxerxes in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(the great warrior). 1. The first Artaxerxes is mentioned in Ezr 4:7 and appears identical with Smerdis, the Magian impostor and pretended brother of Cambyses, who usurped the throne B.C. 522, and reigned eight months. 2. In Ne 2:1 we have another Artaxerxes. We may safely identify him with Artaxerxes Macrocheir or Longimanus, the son of Xer...

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