CHANGE OF VENUE to CHARITY
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CHANGE OF VENUE
Granted Paul Ac 23:17-35
Declined by Paul Ac 25:9, 11
CHAPITER
the ornamental head or capital of a pillar. Three Hebrew words are so rendered.
(1.) Cothereth (1 Kings 7:16; 2 Kings 25:17; 2 Chr. 4:12), meaning a "diadem" or "crown."
(2.) Tzepheth (2 Chr. 3:15).
(3.) Rosh (Ex. 36:38; 38:17, 19, 28), properly a "head" or "top."
Head of a pillar Ex 36:38; 1Ki 7:16-42; 2Ki 25:17; 2Ch 4:12, 13; Jer 52:22
CHARACTER
OF SAINTS
Attentive to Christ's voice Jn 10:3-4 .Blameless and harmless Php 2:15 .Bold Pr 28:1 .Contrite Isa 57:15; 66:2 .Devout Ac 8:2; 22:12 .Faithful Re 17:14 .Fearing God Mal 3:16; Ac 10:2 .Following Christ Jn 10:4, 27 .Godly Ps 4:3; 2Pe 2:9 .Guileless Jn 1:47 .Holy Deut 7:6; 14:2; Col 3:12 .Humble Ps 34:2; 1Pe 5:5 .Hungering for righteousness Mt 5:6 .Just Ge 6:9; Hab 2:4; Lk 2:25 .Led by the Spirit Ro 8:14 .Liberal Isa 32:8; 2Co 9:13 .Loathing themselves Eze 20:43 .Loving Col 1:4; 1Th 4:9 .Lowly Pr 16:19 .Meek Isa 29:19; Mt 5:5 .Merciful Ps 37:26; Mt 5:7 .New creatures 2Co 5:17; Eph 2:10 .Obedient Ro 16:19; 1Pe 1:14 .Poor in spirit Mt 5:3 .Prudent Pr 16:21 .Pure in heart Mt 5:8; 1Jo 3:3 .Righteous Isa 60:21; Lk 1:6 .Sincere 2Co 1:12; 2:17 .Steadfast Ac 2:42; Col 2:5 .Taught by God Isa 54:13; 1Jo 2:27 .True 2Co 6:8 .Undefiled Ps 119:1 .Upright 1Ki 3:6; Ps 15:2 .Watchful Lk 12:37 .Zealous of good works Tit 2:14
OF THE WICKED
Abominable Re 21:8 .Alienated from God Eph 4:18; Col 1:21 .Blasphemous Lk 22:65; Re 16:9 .Blinded 2Co 4:4; Eph 4:18 .Boastful Ps 10:3; 49:6 .Conspiring against saints Ne 4:8; 6:2; Ps 38:12 .Corrupt Mt 7:17; Eph 4:22 .Covetous Mic 2:2; Ro 1:29 .Deceitful Ps 5:6; Ro 3:13 .Delighting in the iniquity of others Pr 2:14; Ro 1:32 .Despising saints Ne 2:19; 4:2; 2Ti 3:3, 4 .Destructive Isa 59:7 .Disobedient Ne 9:26; Tit 3:3; 1Pe 2:7 .Enticing to evil Pr 1:10-14; 2Ti 3:6 .Envious Ne 2:10; Tit 3:3 .Evildoers Jer 13:23; Mic 7:3 .Fearful Pr 28:1; Re 21:8 .Fierce Pr 16:29; 2Ti 3:3 .Foolish Deut 32:6; Ps 5:5 .Forgetting God Job 8:13 .Fraudulent Ps 37:21; Mic 6:11 .Froward Pr 21:8; Isa 57:17 .Glorying in their shame Php 3:19 .Hard-hearted Eze 3:7 .Hating the light Job 24:13; Jn 3:20 .Heady and high-minded 2Ti 3:4 .Hostile to God Ro 8:7; Col 1:21 .Hypocritical Isa 29:13; 2Ti 3:5 .Ignorant of God Ho 4:1; 2Th 1:8 .Impudent Eze 2:4 .Incontinent 2Ti 3:3 .Infidel Ps 10:4; 14:1 .Loathsome Pr 13:5 .Lovers of pleasure, not of God 2Ti 3:4 .Lying Ps 58:3; 62:4; Isa 59:4 .Mischievous Pr 24:8; Mic 7:3 .Murderous Ps 10:8; 94:6; Ro 1:29 .Prayerless Job 21:15; Ps 53:4 .Persecuting Ps 69:26; 109:16 .Perverse Deut 32:5 .Proud Ps 59:12; Ob 1:3; 2Ti 3:2 .Rebellious Isa 1:2; 30:9 .Rejoicing in the affliction of saints Ps 35:15 .Reprobate 2Co 13:5; 2Ti 3:8; Tit 1:16 .Selfish 2Ti 3:2 .Sensual Php 3:19; Jude 1:19 .Sold under sin 1Ki 21:20; 2Ki 17:17 .Stiff-hearted Eze 2:4 .Stiff-necked Ex 33:5; Ac 7:51 .Uncircumcised in heart Jer 9:26 .Unclean Isa 64:6; Eph 4:19 .Unjust Pr 11:7; Isa 26:18 .Unmerciful Ro 1:31 .Ungodly Pr 16:27 .Unholy 2Ti 3:2 .Unprofitable Mt 25:30; Ro 3:12 .Unruly Tit 1:10 .Unthankful Lk 6:35; 2Ti 3:2 .Untoward Ac 2:40 .Unwise Deut 32:6 .
See WICKED DESCRIBED
GOOD Pr 22:1; Ec 7:1
DEFAMATION OF, PUNISHED Deut 22:13-19
REVEALED IN COUNTENANCE Isa 3:9 .
See COUNTENANCE
See FACE
FIRMNESS OF Ps 57:7; 108:1; 112:7; Mt 10:22; Mr 4:20; 1Co 7:20; 2Th 2:15; 3:3; Heb 10:23; 13:9; Jas 1:25
INSTANCES OF FIRMNESS
Joseph in resisting Potiphar's wife Ge 39:7-12 .Pilate Jn 19:22 .Paul Ac 20:22-24; 21:13-14 .
INSTABILITY OF Pr 24:21, 22; 27:8; Jer 2:36; Ho 6:4; 7:8; 10:2; Mt 8:19-22; 13:19-22; Mr 4:15-19; Lk 8:5-15; 9:59-62; Eph 4:14; Jas 1:6-8; 4:8; 2Pe 2:14
See INDECISION
See INSTABILITY
See DECISION
See PERSEVERANCE
See STABILITY
INSTANCES OF INSTABILITY REUBEN Ge 49:3, 4
PHARAOH Ex 8:15, 32; 9:34; 14:5
SOLOMON 1Ki 11:4-8
ISRAELITES Ex 32:8; Jud 2:17, 19; 2Ch 11:17; 12:1; 1Sa 18:19
CHAPTER
The several books of the Old and New Testaments were from an early time divided into chapters. The Pentateuch was divided by the ancient Hebrews into 54 parshioth or sections, one of which was read in the synagogue every Sabbath day (Acts. 13:15). These sections were afterwards divided into 669 sidrim or orders of unequal length. The Prophets were divided in somewhat the same manner into haphtaroth or passages.
In the early Latin and Greek versions of the Bible, similar divisions of the several books were made. The New Testament books were also divided into portions of various lengths under different names, such as titles and heads or chapters.
In modern times this ancient example was imitated, and many attempts of the kind were made before the existing division into chapters was fixed. The Latin Bible published by Cardinal Hugo of St. Cher in A.D. 1240 is generally regarded as the first Bible that was divided into our present chapters, although it appears that some of the chapters were fixed as early as A.D. 1059.
This division into chapters came gradually to be adopted in the published editions of the Hebrew, with some few variations, and of the Greek Scriptures, and hence of other versions.
CHARASHIM
craftsmen, a valley named in 1 Chr. 4:14. In Neh. 11:35 the Hebrew word is rendered "valley of craftsmen" (R.V. marg., Geha-rashim).
Nothing is known of it.
Valley of 1Ch 4:14; Ne 11:35
CHARGE
Delivered to ministers
CHARGER
a bowl or deep dish. The silver vessels given by the heads of the tribes for the services of the tabernacle are so named (Num. 7:13, etc.).
The "charger" in which the Baptist's head was presented was a platter or flat wooden trencher (Matt. 14:8, 11; Mark 6:25, 28).
The chargers of gold and silver of Ezra 1:9 were probably basins for receiving the blood of sacrifices.
(A dish) Dedicated to the tabernacle Nu 7:13, 19, 25, 31, 37, 43, 49, 55, 61, 67, 73, 79, 84, 85
John Baptist's head carried on Mt 14:8, 11
CHARIOT
a vehicle generally used for warlike purposes. Sometimes, though but rarely, it is spoken of as used for peaceful purposes.
The first mention of the chariot is when Joseph, as a mark of distinction, was placed in Pharaoh's second state chariot (Gen. 41:43); and the next, when he went out in his own chariot to meet his father Jacob (Ge 46:29). Chariots formed part of the funeral procession of Jacob (Ge 50:9). When Pharaoh pursued the Israelites he took 600 war-chariots with him (Ex. 14:7).
The Canaanites in the valleys of Palestine had chariots of iron (Josh. 17:18; Judg. 1:19). Jabin, the king of Canaan, had 900 chariots (Judg. 4:3); and in Saul's time the Philistines had 30,000. In his wars with the king of Zobah and with the Syrians, David took many chariots among the spoils (2 Sam. 8:4; 10:18). Solomon maintained as part of his army 1,400 chariots (1 Kings 10:26), which were chiefly imported from Egypt (29). From this time forward they formed part of the armies of Israel (1 Kings 22:34; 2 Kings 9:16, 21; 13:7, 14; 18:24; 23:30).
In the New Testament we have only one historical reference to the use of chariots, in the case of the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts. 8:28, 29, 38).
This word is sometimes used figuratively for hosts (Ps. 68:17; 2 Kings 6:17). Elijah, by his prayers and his counsel, was "the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." The rapid agency of God in the phenomena of nature is also spoken of under the similitude of a chariot (Ps. 104:3; Isa. 66:15; Hab. 3:8).
Chariot of the cherubim (1 Chr. 28:18), the chariot formed by the two cherubs on the mercy-seat on which the Lord rides.
Chariot cities were set apart for storing the war-chariots in time of peace (2 Chr. 1:14).
Chariot horses were such as were peculiarly fitted for service in chariots (2 Kings 7:14).
Chariots of war are described in Ex. 14:7; 1 Sam. 13:5; 2 Sam. 8:4; 1 Chr. 18:4; Josh. 11:4; Judg. 4:3, 13. They were not used by the Israelites till the time of David. Elijah was translated in a "chariot of fire" (2 Kings 2:11). Comp. 2 Kings 6:17. This vision would be to Elisha a source of strength and encouragement, for now he could say, "They that be with us are more than they that be with them."
For war Ex 14:7, 9, 25; Jos 11:4; 1Sa 13:5; 1Ki 20:1, 25; 2Ki 6:14; 2Ch 12:2, 3; Ps 20:7; 46:9; Jer 46:9; 47:3; 51:21; Joe 2:5; Na 2:3, 4; 3:2
Wheels of Pharaoh's, providentially taken off Ex 14:25
Commanded by captains Ex 14:7; 1Ki 9:22; 22:31-33; 2Ki 8:21
Made of iron Jos 17:18; Jud 1:19
Introduced among Israelites by David 2Sa 8:4
Imported from Egypt by Solomon 1Ki 10:26-29
Cities for 1Ki 9:19; 2Ch 1:14; 8:6; 9:25
Royal Ge 41:43; 46:29; 2Ki 5:9; 2Ch 35:24; Jer 17:25; Ac 8:29
Drawn by camels Isa 21:7; Mic 1:13
Traffic in Re 18:13
Kings ride in 2Ch 35:24; Jer 17:25; 22:4
Cherubim in Solomon's temple mounted on 1Ch 28:18
FIGURATIVE .Chariots of God Ps 68:17; 104:3; 2Ki 6:17; Isa 66:15; Hab 3:8; Re 9:9
SYMBOLICAL
CHARISM
An inspired gift, bestowed on the apostles and early Christians Mt 10:1, 8; Lk 10:1, 9, Mr 16:17-18; 17, 19; Ac 2:4; 10:44-46; 19:6; 1Co 12:1
CHARITABLENESS
General scriptures concerning Pr 10:12; 17:9; Mt 5:23, 24; 6:14; 7:1-5; 18:21-35; Lk 6:36-42; 17:3, 4; Jn 7:24; Ro 14:1-23; 1Co 4:5; 10:28-33; 13:1-13; 16:14; Ga 6:1; Eph 4:32; Col 3:13, 14; 1Ti 1:5; 4:12; 2Ti 2:22; Jas 2:13; 4:11, 12; 1Pe 3:9; 4:8
See LOVE
See UNCHARITABLENESS
CHARITY
(1 Cor. 13), the rendering in the Authorized Version of the word which properly denotes love, and is frequently so rendered (always so in the Revised Version).
It is spoken of as the greatest of the three Christian graces (1 Cor. 12:31-13:13).
See ALMS
See BENEFICENCE
See LIBERALITY
See LOVE