{"query": "Easton: Commandments, the Ten", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_63d52412a710", "title": "Easton: Decalogue", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given by the Greek fathers to the ten commandments; “the ten words,” as the original is more literally rendered (Ex. 20:3-17). These commandments were at first written on two stone slabs (31:"}, {"id": "card_n_e723019597ad", "title": "Easton: Commandments, the Ten", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 34:28; Deut. 10:4, marg. “ten words”) i.e., the Decalogue (q.v.), is a summary of the immutable moral law. These commandments were first given in their written form to the people of Israel when t"}, {"id": "card_n_078ff4d7d396", "title": "Westminster Shorter Q44", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?\n\nThe preface to the ten commandments teacheth us, That because God is the Lord, and our God, and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all hi"}, {"id": "card_n_5b73aa3dee52", "title": "Easton: Washing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Mark 7:1-9). The Jews, like other Orientals, used their fingers when taking food, and therefore washed their hands before doing so, for the sake of cleanliness. Here the reference is to the ablutions"}, {"id": "card_n_be62531a8449", "title": "Easton: Decapolis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ten cities=deka, ten, and polis, a city, a district on the east and south-east of the Sea of Galilee containing “ten cities,” which were chiefly inhabited by Greeks. It included a portion of Bashan an"}, {"id": "card_n_88b1ee1f5fa8", "title": "Westminster Shorter Q43", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What is the preface to the ten commandments?\n\nThe preface to the ten commandments is in these words, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondag"}, {"id": "card_n_c40ad0942053", "title": "Westminster Shorter Q42", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What is the sum of the ten commandments?\n\nThe sum of the ten commandments is: To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neig"}, {"id": "card_c_a677fcce996e", "title": "Easton: Commandments, the Ten cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 8:9 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_b0d419eb55fe", "title": "Easton: Commandments, the Ten references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (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_c_e879960347b4", "title": "Easton: Commandments, the Ten references Gerizim", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Gerizim (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_c_74a43b61d88a", "title": "Easton: Commandments, the Ten references Sinai", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Sinai (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_0667b6bec0dd", "title": "Easton: Jeroboam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Increase of the people. (1.) The son of Nebat (1 Kings 11:26-39), “an Ephrathite,” the first king of the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two years (B.C. 976-945). He was the son of a widow of "}, {"id": "card_n_ad5e7212365f", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_21: He used to say: At five years of age the study of Scripture; At ten the study...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He used to say: At five years of age the study of Scripture; At ten the study of Mishnah; At thirteen subject to the commandments; At fifteen the study of Talmud; At eighteen the bridal canopy; At twe"}, {"id": "card_n_552c2965c6bb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_016: So in acts of violence, where there is a wish to hurt, whether by reproach or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "So in acts of violence, where there is a wish to hurt, whether by reproach or injury; and these either for revenge, as one enemy against another; or for some profit belonging to another, as the robber"}, {"id": "card_n_cdc252da0998", "title": "Westminster Shorter Q41", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Wherein is the moral law summarily comprehended?\n\nThe moral law is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments."}, {"id": "card_n_00be6889d7e2", "title": "Easton: Israel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name conferred on Jacob after the great prayer-struggle at Peniel (Gen. 32:28), because “as a prince he had power with God and prevailed.” (See JACOB.) This is the common name given to Jacob’s des"}, {"id": "card_n_631cc9e6955b", "title": "Easton: Captivity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of Israel. The kingdom of the ten tribes was successively invaded by several Assyrian kings. Pul (q.v.) imposed a tribute on Menahem of a thousand talents of silver (2 Kings 15:19, 20; 1 Chr. 5:2"}, {"id": "card_n_947954f80154", "title": "Easton: Cheese", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(A.S. cese). This word occurs three times in the Authorized Version as the translation of three different Hebrew words: (1.) 1 Sam. 17:18, “ten cheeses;” i.e., ten sections of curd. (2.) 2 Sam. 17:29,"}, {"id": "card_n_905c482cdf21", "title": "Heidelberg Q92", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What is the law of God?\n\nGod spake all these words, saying: 'I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me"}, {"id": "card_n_f1c557159142", "title": "1689 LBCF ch. 19: Of the Law of God", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "God gave to Adam a law of universal obedience written in his heart, and a particular precept of not eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The moral law is summed up in the Ten Comman"}]}