{"query": "Easton: Castle", "count": 14, "results": [{"id": "card_n_aa41e36b297b", "title": "Easton: Castle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A military fortress (1 Chr. 11:7), also probably a kind of tower used by the priests for making known anything discovered at a distance (1 Chr. 6:54). Castles are also mentioned (Gen. 25:16) as a kind"}, {"id": "card_n_37b3b0113cc5", "title": "Easton: Antonia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A fortress in Jerusalem, at the north-west corner of the temple area. It is called “the castle” (Acts 21:34, 37). From the stairs of this castle Paul delivered his famous speech to the multitude in th"}, {"id": "card_n_cdea1d48d627", "title": "Easton: Machaerus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Black Fortress, was built by Herod the Great in the gorge of Callirhoe, one of the wadies 9 miles east of the Dead Sea, as a frontier rampart against Arab marauders. John the Baptist was probably "}, {"id": "card_c_57efe618b553", "title": "Easton: Castle cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 21:34 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_f995deb7d163", "title": "Easton: Hierapolis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sacred city, a city of Phrygia, where was a Christian church under the care of Epaphras (Col. 4:12, 13). This church was founded at the same time as that of Colosse. It now bears the name of Pambuk-Ka"}, {"id": "card_n_8ad7aa425726", "title": "Easton: Jebus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Trodden hard, or fastness, or “the waterless hill”, the name of the Canaanitish city which stood on Mount Zion (Josh. 15:8; 18:16, 28). It is identified with Jerusalem (q.v.) in Judg. 19:10, and with "}, {"id": "card_c_dcd38b5ed961", "title": "Easton: Castle references Antonia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Antonia (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_c_93af34761298", "title": "Easton: Castle references Paul", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Paul (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_2571e54be0d2", "title": "Easton: Rehob", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Street; broad place. (1.) The father of Hadadezer, king of Tobah (2 Sam. 8:3, 12). (2.) Neh. 10:11. (3.) The same, probably, as Beth-rehob (2 Sam. 10:6, 8; Judg. 18:28), a place in the north of Palest"}, {"id": "card_n_668214dfa0f8", "title": "Easton: Thyatira", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city of Asia Minor, on the borders of Lydia and Mysia. Its modern name is Ak-hissar, i.e., “white castle.” Here was one of the seven churches (Rev. 1:11; 2:18-28). Lydia, the seller of purple, or ra"}, {"id": "card_n_27a3cd535c16", "title": "Easton: Herodias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 14:3-11; Mark 6:17-28; Luke 3:19), the daughter of Aristobulus and Bernice. While residing at Rome with her husband Herod Philip I. and her daughter, Herod Antipas fell in with her during one o"}, {"id": "card_n_b3d05fd094d6", "title": "Easton: David, City of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) David took from the Jebusites the fortress of Mount Zion. He “dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David” (1 Chr. 11:7). This was the name afterwards given to the castle and royal palace "}, {"id": "card_n_6ccb7210776f", "title": "Easton: Laodicea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The city of this name mentioned in Scripture lay on the confines of Phrygia and Lydia, about 40 miles east of Ephesus (Rev. 3:14), on the banks of the Lycus. It was originally called Diospolis and the"}, {"id": "card_n_31b815e166f9", "title": "Easton: Salome", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Perfect. (1.) The wife of Zebedee and mother of James and John (Mat. 27:56), and probably the sister of Mary, the mother of our Lord (John 19:25). She sought for her sons places of honour in Christ’s "}]}