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Solomon in Naves Topical Bible

-Son of David by Bath-sheba 2Sa 12:24; 1Ki 1:13,17,21 -Named Jedidiah, by Nathan the prophet 2Sa 12:24,25 -An ancestor of Joseph Mt 1:6 -Succeeds David to the throne of Israel 1Ki 1:11-48; 2:12; 1Ch 23:1; 28; Ec 1:12 -Anointed king a second time 1Ch 29:22 -His prayer for wisdom, and his vision 1Ki 3:5-14; 2Ch 1:7-12 -Covenant renewed in...

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Simri in Easton's Bible Dictionary

watchman, a Levite of the family of Merari (1 Chr. 26:10)....

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So in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

so (co', although the Hebrew might be pointed cewe'; Assyrian Sib'u; Septuagint Segor, Soa; Manetho, Seuechos; Latin Sevechus; Herodotus (ii. 137 ff), Sabakon): In all probability the "Sabaeo" of Herodotus, the Shabaka, who founded the Ethiopian dynasty, the XXVth of Egyptian kings. His date is given as 715-707 BC (Flinders Petrie, History of ...

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Simri in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

SIMRI or SHIMRI. 1 Chronicles 26:10. Though not the firstborn, his father made him chief....

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So in Naves Topical Bible

-King of Egypt 2Ki 17:4...

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Solomon in Easton's Bible Dictionary

peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David's second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father on the throne in early manhood, probably about sixteen or eighteen years of age. Nathan, to whom his education was intrusted, called him Jedidi...

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So in Smiths Bible Dictionary

"So, king of Egypt," is once mentioned in the Bible -- 2Ki 17:4 So has been identified by different writers with the first and second kings of the Ethiopian twenty-fifth dynasty, called by Manetho, Sabakon (Shebek) and Sebichos (Shebetek)....

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Solomon in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(peaceful). I. Early life and occasion to the throne. -- Solomon was the child of David's old age, the last born of all his sons. 1Ch 3:5 The yearnings of the "man of war" led him to give to the new-horn infant the name of Solomon (Shelomoth, the peaceful one). Nathan, with a marked reference to the meaning of the king's own name (David, the d...

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Sisera in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

sis'-er-a (cicera', of doubtful meaning; S(e)isara): (1) Given in Judges 4 as the captain of the army of Jabin, king of Hazor. The accounts given of the battle of Sisera with Barak, as found in Judges 4 and 5, have important points of difference. The first is a prose, the second a poetic narrative. In the first only Naphtali and Zebulun are me...

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Solomon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Shlomoh in Hebrew. Second child of David by Bathsheba. Josephus makes Solomon last born of David's sons (Ant. 7:14, section 2). His history is contained in 2 Samuel 12:24-25; 1 Chronicles 22:6-16; 1 Chronicles 22:1 Kings 1-11; 2 Chronicles 1-9. The leading events of his life were selected, under inspiration: namely, his grandeur, extensive co...

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