{"query": "Easton: Chosen", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c3aa0e353e17", "title": "Easton: Chosen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Spoken of warriors (Ex. 15:4; Judg. 20:16), of the Hebrew nation (Ps. 105:43; Deut. 7:7), of Jerusalem as the seat of the temple (1 Kings 11:13). Christ is the “chosen” of God (Isa. 42:1); and the apo"}, {"id": "card_n_62c6bac80fb1", "title": "Easton: Heresy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From a Greek word signifying (1) a choice, (2) the opinion chosen, and (3) the sect holding the opinion. In the Acts of the Apostles (5:17; 15:5; 24:5, 14; 26:5) it denotes a sect, without reference t"}, {"id": "card_n_8be3e722233b", "title": "Easton: Silas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wood, a prominent member of the church at Jerusalem; also called Silvanus. He and Judas, surnamed Barsabas, were chosen by the church there to accompany Paul and Barnabas on their return to Antioch fr"}, {"id": "card_n_e2dd406a0837", "title": "Easton: Generation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gen. 2:4, “These are the generations,” means the “history.” 5:1, “The book of the generations,” means a family register, or history of Adam. 37:2, “The generations of Jacob” = the history of Jacob and"}, {"id": "card_c_e5738227fd00", "title": "Easton: Chosen references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_285495c01ed5", "title": "Easton: Chosen cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 11:13 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_77094bc671e5", "title": "Easton: Chosen cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 10:41 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_811c44b51f63", "title": "Easton: Wood-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Neh. 10:34; 13:31). It would seem that in the time of Nehemiah arrangements were made, probably on account of the comparative scarcity of wood, by which certain districts were required, as chosen by "}, {"id": "card_n_bc2b9a3178f7", "title": "Easton: Sect", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. hairesis, usually rendered “heresy”, Acts 24:14; 1 Chr. 11:19; Gal. 5:20, etc.), meaning properly “a choice,” then “a chosen manner of life,” and then “a religious party,” as the “sect” of the Sa"}, {"id": "card_c_e37cca7ad107", "title": "Easton: Chosen references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (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_8f6978994471", "title": "Easton: Abishag", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Father of (i.e., “given to”) error, a young woman of Shunem, distinguished for her beauty. She was chosen to minister to David in his old age. She became his wife (1 Kings 1:3, 4, 15). After David’s d"}, {"id": "card_n_e0d745038e0f", "title": "Easton: Centurion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Roman officer in command of a hundred men (Mark 15:39, 44, 45). Cornelius, the first Gentile convert, was a centurion (Acts 10:1, 22). Other centurions are mentioned in Matt. 8:5, 8, 13; Luke 7:2, 6"}, {"id": "card_n_8542461789d0", "title": "Easton: Zion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sunny; height, one of the eminences on which Jerusalem was built. It was surrounded on all sides, except the north, by deep valleys, that of the Tyropoeon (q.v.) separating it from Moriah (q.v.), whic"}, {"id": "card_n_390cebdcd5c4", "title": "Easton: Moriah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The chosen of Jehovah. Some contend that Mount Gerizim is meant, but most probably we are to regard this as one of the hills of Jerusalem. Here Solomon’s temple was built, on the spot that had been th"}, {"id": "card_n_4a82d606103e", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Scripture speaks (1) of the election of individuals to office or to honour and privilege, e.g., Abraham, Jacob, Saul, David, Solomon, were all chosen by God for the positions they held; so also we"}, {"id": "card_n_4ec2ad99cb08", "title": "Easton: Lot", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. goral, a “pebble”), a small stone used in casting lots (Num. 33:54; Jonah 1:7). The lot was always resorted to by the Hebrews with strictest reference to the interposition of God, and as a metho"}, {"id": "card_n_aec2227411bb", "title": "Easton: Circumcision", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cutting around. This rite, practised before, as some think, by divers races, was appointed by God to be the special badge of his chosen people, an abiding sign of their consecration to him. It was est"}, {"id": "card_n_14110e5bcd41", "title": "Easton: Banquet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A feast provided for the entertainment of a company of guests (Esther 5; 7; 1 Pet. 4:3); such as was provided for our Lord by his friends in Bethany (Matt. 26:6; Mark 14:3; comp. John 12:2). These mea"}, {"id": "card_n_67a10b6fda93", "title": "Easton: Deacon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anglicized form of the Greek word diaconos, meaning a “runner,” “messenger,” “servant.” For a long period a feeling of mutual jealousy had existed between the “Hebrews,” or Jews proper, who spoke the "}, {"id": "card_n_dd81cb3cf665", "title": "Easton: Ruth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose father, Elimelech, had settled in the land of Moab. On the death of Elimelech and Mahlon, Naomi came with Ruth, her daughter-in-law, who refused to lea"}]}