A

DICTIONARY

OF THE

HOLY BIBLE.

CONTAINING,

AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE PERSONS: A GEOGRAPHICAL
AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE PLACES: A LITERAL,
CRITICAL, AND SYSTEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF
OTHER OBJECTS, WHETHER NATURAL,
ARTIFICIAL, CIVIL, RELIGIOUS,

OR MILITARY:

AND

THE EXPLICATION OF the Appellative teRMS,

MENTIONED IN THE WRITINGS OF

THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT.

THE WHOLE COMPRISING

WHATEVER IMPORTANT IS KNOWN CONCERNING THE ANTIQUITIES OF
THE HEBREW NATION AND CHURCH OF GOD;

FORMING

A SACRED COMMENTARY; A BODY OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY,
CHRONOLOGY, AND DIVINITY;

AND SERVING IN A GREAT MEASURE AS A CONCORDANCE TO
THE BIBLE.

BY JOHN BROWN,

Minister of the Gospel at Haddington.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

NOTES, HISTORICAL, LITERARY, AND THEOLOGICAL

ILLUSTRATED

WITH ELEGANT MAPS AND PLATES.

SECOND PITTSBURGH EDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PITTSBURGH,

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY CRAMER, SPEAR, AND

EICHBAUM.