{"query": "Easton: Army", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_720b8c854ff6", "title": "Easton: Army", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Israelites marched out of Egypt in military order (Ex. 13:18, “harnessed;” marg., “five in a rank”). Each tribe formed a battalion, with its own banner and leader (Num. 2:2; 10:14). In war the arm"}, {"id": "card_n_52a53c8f7862", "title": "Easton: Zerah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sunrise. (1.) An “Ethiopian,” probably Osorkon II., the successor of Shishak on the throne of Egypt. With an enormous army, the largest we read of in Scripture, he invaded the kingdom of Judah in the "}, {"id": "card_n_19cae5671feb", "title": "Easton: Rephaim, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Josh. 15:8; 18:16, R.V.). When David became king over all Israel, the Philistines, judging that he would now become their uncompromising enemy, made a sudden attack upon Hebron, compelling David to r"}, {"id": "card_n_a56fbe9b33f0", "title": "Easton: Necho II", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An Egyptian king, the son and successor of Psammetichus (B.C. 610-594), the contemporary of Josiah, king of Judah. For some reason he proclaimed war against the king of Assyria. He led forth a powerfu"}, {"id": "card_n_a59ff55849b5", "title": "Easton: Hadadezer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hadad is help; called also Hadarezer, Adod is his help, the king of Zobah. Hanun, the king of the Ammonites, hired among others the army of Hadadezer to assist him in his war against David. Joab, who "}, {"id": "card_n_d876e22fdff8", "title": "Easton: Abner", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Father of light; i.e., “enlightening”, the son of Ner and uncle of Saul. He was commander-in-chief of Saul’s army (1 Sam. 14:50; 17:55; 20:25). He first introduced David to the court of Saul after the"}, {"id": "card_n_7932cdd752b2", "title": "Easton: Carchemish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fortress of Chemosh, a city on the west bank of the Euphrates (Jer. 46:2; 2 Chr. 35:20), not, as was once supposed, the Circesium at the confluence of the Chebar and the Euphrates, but a city consider"}, {"id": "card_n_3f43710a3ca1", "title": "Easton: Harosheth of the Gentiles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Judg. 4:2) or nations, a city near Hazor in Galilee of the Gentiles, or Upper Galilee, in the north of Palestine. It was here that Jabin’s great army was marshalled before it went forth into the grea"}, {"id": "card_n_a7a85aa14521", "title": "Easton: Mulberry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. bakah, “to weep;” rendered “Baca” (R.V., “weeping”) in Ps. 84:6. The plural form of the Hebrew bekaim is rendered “mulberry trees” in 2 Sam. 5:23, 24 and 1 Chr. 14:14, 15. The tree here alluded t"}, {"id": "card_n_b0e6a21fe450", "title": "Easton: Jehoram", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah-exalted. (1.) Son of Toi, king of Hamath, sent by his father to congratulate David on the occasion of his victory over Hadadezer (2 Sam. 8:10). (2.) A Levite of the family of Gershom (1 Chr. 2"}, {"id": "card_n_81c4f9995b1e", "title": "Easton: Hazor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Enclosed; fortified. (1.) A stronghold of the Canaanites in the mountains north of Lake Merom (Josh. 11:1-5). Jabin the king with his allied tribes here encountered Joshua in a great battle. Joshua ga"}, {"id": "card_n_11462bbce2a6", "title": "Easton: Megiddo", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Place of troops, originally one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:21), belonged to the tribe of Manasseh (Judg. 1:27), but does not seem to have been fully occupied by the Israelites til"}, {"id": "card_n_8fe39337e3b8", "title": "Easton: Michmash", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something hidden, a town of Benjamin (Ezra 2:27), east of Bethel and south of Migron, on the road to Jerusalem (Isa. 10:28). It lay on the line of march of an invading army from the north, on the nort"}, {"id": "card_n_4b66dcfa6854", "title": "Easton: Sisera", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Egypt. Ses-Ra, “servant of Ra”). (1.) The captain of Jabin’s army (Judg. 4:2), which was routed and destroyed by the army of Barak on the plain of Esdraelon. After all was lost he fled to the settlem"}, {"id": "card_n_38e08b8b0a3d", "title": "Easton: Helkath-hazzurim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Plot of the sharp blades, or the field of heroes, (2 Sam. 2:16). After the battle of Gilboa, so fatal to Saul and his house, David, as divinely directed, took up his residence in Hebron, and was there"}, {"id": "card_n_349d058a7df5", "title": "Easton: Gebim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cisterns, (rendered “pits,” Jer. 14:3; “locusts,” Isa. 33:4), a small place north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants fled at the approach of the Assyrian army (Isa. 10:31). It is probably the modern el-I"}, {"id": "card_c_480c45f0d0ed", "title": "Easton: Army references Exodus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Exodus. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_c55877e74d10", "title": "Easton: Sibbecai", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Lord sustains, one of David’s heroes (1 Chr. 11:29), general of the eighth division of the army (27:11). He slew the giant Saph in the battle of Gob (2 Sam. 21:18; R.V., “Sibbechai”). Called also "}, {"id": "card_n_d2ded531ca35", "title": "Easton: Sukkiims", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dwellers in tents, (Vulg. and LXX., “troglodites;” i.e., cave-dwellers in the hills along the Red Sea). Shiskak’s army, with which he marched against Jerusalem, was composed partly of this tribe (2 Ch"}, {"id": "card_n_1aec4792227b", "title": "Easton: Zeruiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stricken of the Lord, David’s sister, and the mother of Abishai, Joab, and Asahel (1 Chr. 2:16), who were the three leading heroes of David’s army, and being his nephews, they were admitted to the clo"}]}