{"query": "Easton: Afflictions", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f3c237065b9d", "title": "Easton: Afflictions", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Common to all (Job 5:7; 14:1; Ps. 34:19); are for the good of men (James 1:2, 3, 12; 2 Cor. 12:7) and the glory of God (2 Cor. 12:7-10; 1 Pet. 4:14), and are to be borne with patience by the Lord’s pe", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_b709debbeaeb", "title": "Psalm 132 — Psalm 132", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Song of Ascents.>> Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction, how he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: \"Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up in", "authority_tier": "scripture", "source": "Psalm 132", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_fdc6df218f54", "title": "Easton: Temptation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Trial; a being put to the test. Thus God “tempted [Gen. 22: 1; R.V., ‘did prove’] Abraham;” and afflictions are said to tempt, i.e., to try, men (James 1:2, 12; comp. Deut. 8:2), putting their fa", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_85674ba18765", "title": "Exodus 3", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.\n2. The LORD’s angel app", "authority_tier": "scripture", "source": "World English Bible · Exodus 3", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_987b5db0037c", "title": "Easton: Tekoa, Tekoah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pitching of tents; fastening down, a town of Judah, about 12 miles south of Jerusalem, and visible from the city. From this place Joab procured a “wise woman,” who pretended to be in great affliction,", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_a05aeddd9eee", "title": "Easton: Afflictions cites James", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites James 1:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Chapter:verse citation", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_enc_easton_temptation", "title": "Temptation", "shelf": "encyclopedia", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "(1.) Trial; a being put to the test. Thus God “tempted [Gen. 22: 1; R.V., ‘did prove’] Abraham;” and afflictions are said to tempt, i.e., to try, men (James 1:2, 12; comp. Deut. 8:2), putting their fa", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897, public domain)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_frd_chad", "title": "Chad: A Country Study", "shelf": "countries", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Foreign Affairs: Since independence, external affairs governed by France, Chad’s colonizer, and Libya, aggressive neighbor to north. Relations with France have wavered, but in late 1980s France provid", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Chad: A Country Study — Federal Research Division, Library of Congress (1990) (public domain)", "readable": true, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_1987410ceae9", "title": "Easton: Plague", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “stroke” of affliction, or disease. Sent as a divine chastisement (Num. 11:33; 14:37; 16:46-49; 2 Sam. 24:21). Painful afflictions or diseases, (Lev. 13:3, 5, 30; 1 Kings 8:37), or severe calamity (", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_enc_easton_afflictions", "title": "Afflictions", "shelf": "encyclopedia", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Common to all (Job 5:7; 14:1; Ps. 34:19); are for the good of men (James 1:2, 3, 12; 2 Cor. 12:7) and the glory of God (2 Cor. 12:7-10; 1 Pet. 4:14), and are to be borne with patience by the Lord’s pe", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897, public domain)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_fe4e1b58a8bb", "title": "Easton: Example", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of Christ (1 Pet. 2:21; John 13:15); of pastors to their flocks (Phil. 3:17; 2 Thess. 3:9; 1 Tim. 4:12; 1 Pet. 5:3); of the Jews as a warning (Heb. 4:11); of the prophets as suffering affliction (Jame", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_d02d5dc72307", "title": "Easton: Bond", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An obligation of any kind (Num. 30:2, 4, 12). The word means also oppression or affliction (Ps. 116:16; Phil. 1:7). Christian love is the “bond of perfectness” (Col. 3:14), and the influences of the S", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_248252491eb0", "title": "Easton: Mahalath Leannoth Maschil", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word leannoth seems to point to some kind of instrument unknown (Ps. 88, title). The whole phrase has by others been rendered, “On the sickness of affliction: a lesson;” or, “Concerning afflictiv", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_2b2214d01185", "title": "Easton: Agabus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “prophet,” probably one of the seventy disciples of Christ. He prophesied at Antioch of an approaching famine (Acts 11:27, 28). Many years afterwards he met Paul at Caesarea, and warned him of the b", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_d515f0a80b16", "title": "Easton: Baanah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Son of affliction. (1.) One of the two sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, a captain in Saul’s army. He and his brother Rechab assassinated Ishbosheth (2 Sam. 4:2), and were on this account slain by David,", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_dc8541250b29", "title": "Easton: Eliphaz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God his strength. (1.) One of Job’s “three friends” who visited him in his affliction (4:1). He was a “Temanite”, i.e., a native of Teman, in Idumea. He first enters into debate with Job. His language", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_b42234543200", "title": "Easton: Ephraim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Double fruitfulness (“for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction”). The second son of Joseph, born in Egypt (Gen. 41:52; 46:20). The first incident recorded regarding him is his being", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_2c0f10ee66d1", "title": "Easton: Iron", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Tubal-Cain is the first-mentioned worker in iron (Gen. 4:22). The Egyptians wrought it at Sinai before the Exodus. 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