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.See LEPER.JOCHEBEDWife of Amram, and mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, Nu 26:59.Shewas a daughter of Levi, and her husband's aunt, Ex 6:20, though suchmarriages were afterwards prohibited, Le 18:12.JOELOne of the minor prophets, of whom nothing is known beyond the fewhints furnished in his brief but valuable prophecy.He lived in thekingdom of Judah, and at a time when the temple and temple-worshipstill existed, Joe 1:14 2:1,15,32 3:1.Different authors assign to hisprophecy different dates, but the prevailing opinion is that heprophesied in the reign of Uzziah, nearly 800 B.C.The BOOK of JOEL opens with a most graphic and powerful description ofthe devastation caused by swarms of divers kinds of locusts,accompanied by a terrible drought.The plague of locusts, one of themost dreadful scourges of the East, (see LOCUSTS), is highlysuggestive of an invasion of hostile legions such as have oftenravaged Judea; and many have understood, by the locusts of Joel, theChaldeans, Persians, Greeks, or Romans.The prophet, however, adheresto his figure, if it be one; depicts the land as stripped of itsverdure and parched with drought, summons the stricken people tofasting and penitence, and encourages them by promising the removal ofthe divine judgments and the return of fertility.While describingthis returning plenty and prosperity, the prophet casts his viewforward on a future still more remote, and predicts the outpouring ofthe Holy Spirit, and the signs and wonders and spiritual prosperity ofthe Messiah's reign, Joe 2:28.This passage is quoted by the apostlePeter in Ac 2:16.The style of Joel is exceedingly poetical andelegant; his descriptions are vivid and sublime, and his prophecyranks among the gems of Hebrew poetry.It is well fitted to cheer thechurch militant in all ages.JOHANANfile:///H|/Biblebob/Books/Online/ATSBibleDictionary/j.htm (30 of 54)8/10/2005 3:50:31 AM ATS JSon of Kareah, a leading captain of the Jews after the destruction ofJerusalem, B.C.588, who recognized the authority of Gedaliah, warnedhim in vain of the plot of Ishmael, and avenged his murder; butafterwards carried the remnant of the people to Egypt against theremonstrances of Jeremiah, who, unable to check his rebellious andidolatrous course, foretold divine judgments, which in due time werefulfilled, 2Ki 25:23-26 Jer 40:1-44:30.JOHN1.THE BAPTIST, the forerunner of our Lord Jesus Christ, was the sonof Zacharias and Elisabeth, and was born about six months beforeChrist, as Reland and Robinson suppose at Juttah, Jos 21:16 Lu 1:29, atown some five miles south of Hebron, but according to tradition at aplace about four miles west of Jerusalem.Several Old Testamentpredictions found their fulfillment in him.See Isa 40:3 Mt 3:3 Mal3:1 4:5 Mt 11:14.His birth, name, and office were also foretold bythe angel Gabriel to his father Zacharias while ministering at thetemple altar.Several other supernatural incidents attended the visitof Mary to Elisabeth, and the birth and naming of John, Lu 1:1-80.Hepassed his early life among the crags of Eastern Judea, and when notfar from thirty years of age, appeared as a prophet of the Lord.Beingalso a priest by birth, and an austere Nazarite in appearance and modeof life, he was like a reproduction of Elijah of old.Crowds flockedfrom all quarters to hear the word of God from his lips boldlydenouncing their sins, and to receive the baptism of repentancepreparatory to the full revelation of grace in Christ.Among others,the Savior at length came, and was baptized as an example of obedienceto all divine enjoinments.John was at once satisfied that Jesus wasthe Messiah, but "knew him not" by any divine intimation till he sawthe appointed sign, the descending Spirit.He then stood forth as therepresentative of "all the law and the prophets," pointing the worldto Christ as an atoning Savior, and thus introduced Him to His publicministry: "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of theworld," Joh 1:29 Ga 3:24.John enjoyed at this time a high degree of popular veneration, Lu3:15; the Sanhedrin sent a deputation to question him, Joh 1:19-28,king Herod "did many things, and heard him gladly." But he laid all hehad at the Savior's feet, Joh 1:27 3:33.We read several times of his"disciples," Mt 9:14 Lu 5:33 Joh 3:23-15 4:1; and meet with subsequenttraces of the wide extent of his influence, Ac 18:25 19:3.We know notfile:///H|/Biblebob/Books/Online/ATSBibleDictionary/j.htm (31 of 54)8/10/2005 3:50:31 AM ATS Jwhy he continued for a time his separate ministry, instead ofattending Christ.He persevered, however, in his faithful labors forreformation; and these, in the second year afterwards, led to hisimprisonment by Herod Antipas.See HEROD 3.It was while in prisonthat he sent two of his disciples to Christ to inquire, "Art thou hethat should come, or do we look for another?" Mt 11:3.He may havebeen moved to send this message by some lingering Jewish views as to atemporal Messiah, who would right all their national wrongs, or bysome temporary unbelieving haste to have Christ publicly announce hisMessiahship.It was on this occasion that Christ calls him greaterthan any other prophet; because, of all the prophets of the Messiah,he alone saw Him entering on his work whom all "desired to see;" yethe was less than the "least in the kingdom of God," inasmuch as hedied without seeing that kingdom established in the death andresurrection of his Lord.But his earthly work was soon done.Herod,according to Josephus, feared his great influence over the people, andHerodias dreaded his bold fidelity to her husband.The dancing of herdaughter Salome, and the vow of the besotted king, furnished apretext.John was beheaded in prison; his disciples buried his remainswith honor, and "went and told Jesus," Mt 14:3-122.THE APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST, son of Zebedee and Salome, was a nativeof Bethsaida in Galilee.Zebedee and his sons were fishermen, andappear to have been in easy circumstances, Mr 1:20 15:40 Joh 18:1519:27.In John's character there was an admirable mixture ofgentleness and force.The picture the Bible gives of him has apeculiar charm, so much peace, humility, charity, and brotherly loveglow in it [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.See LEPER.JOCHEBEDWife of Amram, and mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, Nu 26:59.Shewas a daughter of Levi, and her husband's aunt, Ex 6:20, though suchmarriages were afterwards prohibited, Le 18:12.JOELOne of the minor prophets, of whom nothing is known beyond the fewhints furnished in his brief but valuable prophecy.He lived in thekingdom of Judah, and at a time when the temple and temple-worshipstill existed, Joe 1:14 2:1,15,32 3:1.Different authors assign to hisprophecy different dates, but the prevailing opinion is that heprophesied in the reign of Uzziah, nearly 800 B.C.The BOOK of JOEL opens with a most graphic and powerful description ofthe devastation caused by swarms of divers kinds of locusts,accompanied by a terrible drought.The plague of locusts, one of themost dreadful scourges of the East, (see LOCUSTS), is highlysuggestive of an invasion of hostile legions such as have oftenravaged Judea; and many have understood, by the locusts of Joel, theChaldeans, Persians, Greeks, or Romans.The prophet, however, adheresto his figure, if it be one; depicts the land as stripped of itsverdure and parched with drought, summons the stricken people tofasting and penitence, and encourages them by promising the removal ofthe divine judgments and the return of fertility.While describingthis returning plenty and prosperity, the prophet casts his viewforward on a future still more remote, and predicts the outpouring ofthe Holy Spirit, and the signs and wonders and spiritual prosperity ofthe Messiah's reign, Joe 2:28.This passage is quoted by the apostlePeter in Ac 2:16.The style of Joel is exceedingly poetical andelegant; his descriptions are vivid and sublime, and his prophecyranks among the gems of Hebrew poetry.It is well fitted to cheer thechurch militant in all ages.JOHANANfile:///H|/Biblebob/Books/Online/ATSBibleDictionary/j.htm (30 of 54)8/10/2005 3:50:31 AM ATS JSon of Kareah, a leading captain of the Jews after the destruction ofJerusalem, B.C.588, who recognized the authority of Gedaliah, warnedhim in vain of the plot of Ishmael, and avenged his murder; butafterwards carried the remnant of the people to Egypt against theremonstrances of Jeremiah, who, unable to check his rebellious andidolatrous course, foretold divine judgments, which in due time werefulfilled, 2Ki 25:23-26 Jer 40:1-44:30.JOHN1.THE BAPTIST, the forerunner of our Lord Jesus Christ, was the sonof Zacharias and Elisabeth, and was born about six months beforeChrist, as Reland and Robinson suppose at Juttah, Jos 21:16 Lu 1:29, atown some five miles south of Hebron, but according to tradition at aplace about four miles west of Jerusalem.Several Old Testamentpredictions found their fulfillment in him.See Isa 40:3 Mt 3:3 Mal3:1 4:5 Mt 11:14.His birth, name, and office were also foretold bythe angel Gabriel to his father Zacharias while ministering at thetemple altar.Several other supernatural incidents attended the visitof Mary to Elisabeth, and the birth and naming of John, Lu 1:1-80.Hepassed his early life among the crags of Eastern Judea, and when notfar from thirty years of age, appeared as a prophet of the Lord.Beingalso a priest by birth, and an austere Nazarite in appearance and modeof life, he was like a reproduction of Elijah of old.Crowds flockedfrom all quarters to hear the word of God from his lips boldlydenouncing their sins, and to receive the baptism of repentancepreparatory to the full revelation of grace in Christ.Among others,the Savior at length came, and was baptized as an example of obedienceto all divine enjoinments.John was at once satisfied that Jesus wasthe Messiah, but "knew him not" by any divine intimation till he sawthe appointed sign, the descending Spirit.He then stood forth as therepresentative of "all the law and the prophets," pointing the worldto Christ as an atoning Savior, and thus introduced Him to His publicministry: "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of theworld," Joh 1:29 Ga 3:24.John enjoyed at this time a high degree of popular veneration, Lu3:15; the Sanhedrin sent a deputation to question him, Joh 1:19-28,king Herod "did many things, and heard him gladly." But he laid all hehad at the Savior's feet, Joh 1:27 3:33.We read several times of his"disciples," Mt 9:14 Lu 5:33 Joh 3:23-15 4:1; and meet with subsequenttraces of the wide extent of his influence, Ac 18:25 19:3.We know notfile:///H|/Biblebob/Books/Online/ATSBibleDictionary/j.htm (31 of 54)8/10/2005 3:50:31 AM ATS Jwhy he continued for a time his separate ministry, instead ofattending Christ.He persevered, however, in his faithful labors forreformation; and these, in the second year afterwards, led to hisimprisonment by Herod Antipas.See HEROD 3.It was while in prisonthat he sent two of his disciples to Christ to inquire, "Art thou hethat should come, or do we look for another?" Mt 11:3.He may havebeen moved to send this message by some lingering Jewish views as to atemporal Messiah, who would right all their national wrongs, or bysome temporary unbelieving haste to have Christ publicly announce hisMessiahship.It was on this occasion that Christ calls him greaterthan any other prophet; because, of all the prophets of the Messiah,he alone saw Him entering on his work whom all "desired to see;" yethe was less than the "least in the kingdom of God," inasmuch as hedied without seeing that kingdom established in the death andresurrection of his Lord.But his earthly work was soon done.Herod,according to Josephus, feared his great influence over the people, andHerodias dreaded his bold fidelity to her husband.The dancing of herdaughter Salome, and the vow of the besotted king, furnished apretext.John was beheaded in prison; his disciples buried his remainswith honor, and "went and told Jesus," Mt 14:3-122.THE APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST, son of Zebedee and Salome, was a nativeof Bethsaida in Galilee.Zebedee and his sons were fishermen, andappear to have been in easy circumstances, Mr 1:20 15:40 Joh 18:1519:27.In John's character there was an admirable mixture ofgentleness and force.The picture the Bible gives of him has apeculiar charm, so much peace, humility, charity, and brotherly loveglow in it [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]