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Smith's Bible Dictionary
(whom Jehovah will build up), son of Jehoram, a Benjamite. (1 Chronicles 9:8)
Ibnijah
(whom Jehovah will build up), a Benjamite. (1 Chronicles 9:8)
Ibri
(Hebrew), a Merarite Levite of the family of Jaaziah, (1 Chronicles 24:27) in the time of David.
(B.C. 1014.)
Ibzan
(illustrious), a native of Bethlehem of Zebulun, who judged Israel for seven years after Jephthah.
(Judges 12:8,10) (B.C. 1137.)
Ichabod
(inglorious), the son of Phinehas and grandson of Eli. (1 Samuel 4:21) (B.C. about 1100.)
Iconium
(little image), the modern Konieh, was the capital of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor. It was a large
and rich city, 120 miles north from the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Taurus mountains, and
on the great line of communication between Ephesus and the western coast of the peninsula on one
side, and Tarsus, Antioch and the Euphrates on the other. Iconium was a well-chosen place for
missionary operations. (Acts 14:1,3,21,22; 16:1,2; 18:23) Paul’s first visit here was on his first
circuit, in company with Barnabas; and on this occasion he approached it from Antioch in Pisidia,
which lay to the west. The modern Konieh is between two and three miles in circumference and
contains over 30,000 inhabitants. It contains manufactories of carpets and leather.
Idalah
(memorial of God), one of the cities of the tribe of Zebulun, named between Shimron and
Bethlehem. (Joshua 19:15)
Idbash
(stout), one of the three sons of Abi-Etam, among the families of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:3)
Iddo
(timely or lovely).
•The father of Abinadab. (1 Kings 4:14)
•A descendant of Gershom, son of Levi. (1 Chronicles 6:21)
•Son of Zechariah, ruler of the tribe of Manasseh east of Jordan in the time of David. (1 Chronicles
27:21) (B.C. 1014.)
•A seer whose “visions” against Jeroboam incidentally contained some of the acts of Solomon. (2
Chronicles 9:29) He appears to have written a chronicle or story relating to the life and reign of
Abijah. (2 Chronicles 13:22) (B.C. 961.)
•The grandfather of the prophet Zechariah. (Zechariah 1:1,7)
•The chief of those who assembled at Casiphia at the time of the second caravan from Babylon.
He was one of the Nethinim. (Ezra 8:17) comp. Ezra 8:20 (B.C. 536.)
Idol
An image or anything used as an object of worship in place of the true God. Among the earliest
objects of worship, regarded as symbols of deity, were the meteoric stones,which the ancients
believed to have been images of the Gods sent down from heaven. From these they transferred their
regard to rough unhewn blocks, to stone columns or pillars of wood, in which the divinity worshipped
was supposed to dwell, and which were connected, like the sacred stone at Delphi, by being anointed
with oil and crowned with wool on solemn days. Of the forms assumed by the idolatrous images
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