{"query": "Easton: Battle-bow", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fc2c0a4fe7b5", "title": "Easton: Battle-bow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The war-bow used in fighting (Zech. 9:10; 10:4). “Thy bow was made quite naked” (Hab. 3:9) means that it was made ready for use. By David’s order (2 Sam. 1:18) the young men were taught the use, or ra"}, {"id": "card_n_132947566f27", "title": "Easton: Bow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The bow was in use in early times both in war and in the chase (Gen. 21:20; 27:3; 48:22). The tribe of Benjamin were famous for the use of the bow (1 Chr. 8:40; 12:2; 2 Chr. 14:8; 17:17); so also were"}, {"id": "card_n_fa36d9f57c04", "title": "Easton: Archer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A shooter with the bow (1 Chr. 10:3). This art was of high antiquity (Gen. 21:20; 27:3). Saul was wounded by the Philistine archers (1 Sam. 31:3). The phrase “breaking the bow” (Hos. 1:5; Jer. 49:35) "}, {"id": "card_n_9587548d206b", "title": "Easton: Armour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is employed in the English Bible to denote military equipment, both offensive and defensive. (1.) The offensive weapons were different at different periods of history. The “rod of iron” (Ps. 2:9) is s"}, {"id": "card_c_396e50d4b57d", "title": "Easton: Battle-bow references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"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_ea0835f4fb1b", "title": "Easton: Jasher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Upright. “The Book of Jasher,” rendered in the LXX. “the Book of the Upright One,” by the Vulgate “the Book of Just Ones,” was probably a kind of national sacred song-book, a collection of songs in pr"}, {"id": "card_n_40daef999889", "title": "Easton: Nail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "For fastening. (1.) Hebrew yathed, “piercing,” a peg or nail of any material (Ezek. 15:3), more especially a tent-peg (Ex. 27:19; 35:18; 38:20), with one of which Jael (q.v.) pierced the temples of Si"}, {"id": "card_n_3559c5584a97", "title": "Easton: Steel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The “bow of steel” in (A.V.) 2 Sam. 22:35; Job 20:24; Ps. 18:34 is in the Revised Version “bow of brass” (Heb. kesheth-nehushah). In Jer. 15:12 the same word is used, and is also rendered in the Revis"}, {"id": "card_n_168d5a7ec5b6", "title": "Easton: Armageddon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs only in Rev. 16:16 (R.V., “Har-Magedon”), as symbolically designating the place where the “battle of that great day of God Almighty” (ver. 14) shall be fought. The word properly means the “moun"}, {"id": "card_n_1e82be6143cd", "title": "Easton: Copper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Derived from the Greek kupros (the island of Cyprus), called “Cyprian brass,” occurs only in the Authorized Version in Ezra 8:27. Elsewhere the Hebrew word (nehosheth) is improperly rendered “brass,” "}, {"id": "card_n_bdffff9f25db", "title": "Easton: Barak", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lightning, the son of Abinoam (Judg. 4:6). At the summons of Deborah he made war against Jabin. She accompanied him into the battle, and gave the signal for the little army to make the attack; in whic"}, {"id": "card_n_c51d9d30b6ec", "title": "Easton: Micaiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Who is like Jehovah?, the son of Imlah, a faithful prophet of Samaria (1 Kings 22:8-28). Three years after the great battle with Ben-hadad (20:29-34), Ahab proposed to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, that"}, {"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_41510b6e4247", "title": "Easton: Eli", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ascent, the high priest when the ark was at Shiloh (1 Sam. 1:3, 9). He was the first of the line of Ithamar, Aaron’s fourth son (1 Chr. 24:3; comp. 2 Sam. 8:17), who held that office. The office remai"}, {"id": "card_n_4a0b9fda5e73", "title": "Easton: Eben-ezer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stone of help, the memorial stone set up by Samuel to commemorate the divine assistance to Israel in their great battle against the Philistines, whom they totally routed (1 Sam. 7:7-12) at Aphek, in t"}, {"id": "card_n_46ede65e389e", "title": "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A mighty fortress is our God,\nA bulwark never failing;\nOur helper He, amid the flood\nOf mortal ills prevailing:\nFor still our ancient foe\nDoth seek to work us woe;\nHis craft and power are great,\nAnd, "}, {"id": "card_n_794a3ccb4708", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §153: So when the battle was over, Christian said, \"I will here give thanks to him that deliv...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "So when the battle was over, Christian said, \"I will here give thanks to him that delivered me out of the mouth of the lion, to him that did help me against Apollyon.\" And so he did, saying-- Great Be"}, {"id": "card_n_499b46b2e38b", "title": "Easton: Dart", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An instrument of war; a light spear. “Fiery darts” (Eph. 6:16) are so called in allusion to the habit of discharging darts from the bow while they are on fire or armed with some combustible material. "}, {"id": "card_c_04d059a0cd3e", "title": "Easton: Bow references Benjamin", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Benjamin (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}]}