{"query": "2 Kings", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_c_9ace4a991555", "title": "WSC Q68 ↔ 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Westminster Q68 cites 1 Kings: 1 Kings 18:4."}, {"id": "card_c_d5bb0410793a", "title": "WSC Q81 ↔ 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Westminster Q81 cites 1 Kings: 1 Kings 21:4."}, {"id": "card_n_ac7a1b4d5c0d", "title": "Easton: Kings, The Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. The present division into two books was first made by the LXX., which now, with the Vulgate, numbers them as the third a"}, {"id": "card_n_7c3d825d8576", "title": "Easton: Guard", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. tabbah (properly a “cook,” and in a secondary sense “executioner,” because this office fell to the lot of the cook in Eastern countries), the bodyguard of the kings of Egypt (Gen. 37:36) and"}, {"id": "card_n_3061d3b08d1f", "title": "Easton: Baal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lord. (1.) The name appropriated to the principal male god of the Phoenicians. It is found in several places in the plural BAALIM (Judg. 2:11; 10:10; 1 Kings 18:18; Jer. 2:23; Hos. 2:17). Baal is iden"}, {"id": "card_n_18d0b29ebe2e", "title": "Easton: Girdle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. hagor, a girdle of any kind worn by soldiers (1 Sam. 18:4; 2 Sam. 20:8; 1 Kings 2:5; 2 Kings 3:21) or women (Isa. 3:24). (2.) Heb. ‘ezor, something “bound,” worn by prophets (2 Kings 1:8; Je"}, {"id": "card_n_bd79da358d27", "title": "Easton: Exile", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of the kingdom of Israel. In the time of Pekah, Tiglath-pileser II. carried away captive into Assyria (2 Kings 15:29; comp. Isa. 10:5, 6) a part of the inhabitants of Galilee and of Gilead (B.C. "}, {"id": "card_n_6cb78a701a32", "title": "1 Kings", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Solomon's temple, divided kingdom\n\n22 chapters · uncertain."}, {"id": "card_n_631cc9e6955b", "title": "Easton: Captivity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of Israel. The kingdom of the ten tribes was successively invaded by several Assyrian kings. Pul (q.v.) imposed a tribute on Menahem of a thousand talents of silver (2 Kings 15:19, 20; 1 Chr. 5:2"}, {"id": "card_n_b0af5c250b35", "title": "2 Kings", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "exile of Israel and Judah\n\n25 chapters · uncertain."}, {"id": "card_n_d8a4b1d13593", "title": "Easton: Cruse", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A utensil; a flask or cup for holding water (1 Sam. 26:11, 12, 16; 1 Kings 19:6) or oil (1 Kings 17:12, 14, 16). In 1 Kings 14:3 the word there so rendered means properly a bottle, as in Jer. 19:1, 10"}, {"id": "card_n_2e213cebbc2c", "title": "Easton: Dearth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17). There were frequent dearths in Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a “famine in the land” (Gen. 12:10), so also in the days of Jacob (47:4, 13). We read al"}, {"id": "card_n_7021e41a3c90", "title": "Easton: Host", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An entertainer (Rom. 16:23); a tavern-keeper, the keeper of a caravansary (Luke 10:35). In warfare, a troop or military force. This consisted at first only of infantry. Solomon afterwards added cavalr"}, {"id": "card_n_5e1dc6d0bfeb", "title": "Easton: Ben-hadad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The standing title of the Syrian kings, meaning “the son of Hadad.” (See HADADEZER.) (1.) The king of Syria whom Asa, king of Judah, employed to invade Israel (1 Kings 15:18). (2.) Son of the precedin"}, {"id": "card_n_48c7f61b414f", "title": "Easton: Athaliah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God afflicts. (1.) The daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Kings 8:18), who “walked in the ways of the house of Ahab” (2 Chr. 21:6), called “daughter” of Omri "}, {"id": "card_n_e57ccb63eb48", "title": "Easton: Grave", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the ancient Hebrews graves were outside of cities in the open field (Luke 7:12; John 11:30). Kings (1 Kings 2:10) and prophets (1 Sam. 25:1) were generally buried within cities. Graves were gene"}, {"id": "card_n_5394dc7fa434", "title": "Easton: Gardens", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Scripture, of Eden (Gen. 2:8, 9); Ahab’s garden of herbs (1 Kings 21:2); the royal garden (2 Kings 21:18); the royal garden at Susa (Esther 1:5); the garden of Joseph of Arimathea (John 1"}, {"id": "card_n_2b3f60ca8b7d", "title": "Easton: Tirza", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pleasantness. (1.) An old royal city of the Canaanites, which was destroyed by Joshua (Josh. 12:24). Jeroboam chose it for his residence, and he removed to it from Shechem, which at first he made the "}, {"id": "card_n_ac7dce73a6e4", "title": "Easton: Mule", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. pered), so called from the quick step of the animal or its power of carrying loads. It is not probable that the Hebrews bred mules, as this was strictly forbidden in the law (Lev. 19:19), althou"}, {"id": "card_n_b0715b773cb6", "title": "Easton: Jezreel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God scatters. (1.) A town of Issachar (Josh. 19:18), where the kings of Israel often resided (1 Kings 18:45; 21:1; 2 Kings 9:30). Here Elijah met Ahab, Jehu, and Bidkar; and here Jehu executed his dre"}]}