{"query": "Easton: Congregation", "count": 19, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9388fba09cfc", "title": "Easton: Congregation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kahal), the Hebrew people collectively as a holy community (Num. 15:15). Every circumcised Hebrew from twenty years old and upward was a member of the congregation. Strangers resident in the lan"}, {"id": "card_n_e5a2dbc040bc", "title": "Easton: Congregation, mount of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 14:13), has been supposed to refer to the place where God promised to meet with his people (Ex. 25:22; 29:42, 43) i.e., the mount of the Divine presence, Mount Zion. But here the king of Babylon"}, {"id": "card_n_20d2ff57421a", "title": "Easton: Mount of the congregation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only in Isa. 14:13, a mythic mountain of the Babylonians, regarded by them as the seat of the gods. It was situated in the far north, and in Babylonian inscriptions is described as a mountain called I"}, {"id": "card_n_6cb382b0b203", "title": "Easton: Sin-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. hattath), the law of, is given in detail in Lev. 4-6:13; 9:7-11, 22-24; 12:6-8; 15:2, 14, 25-30; 14:19, 31; Num. 6:10-14. On the day of Atonement it was made with special solemnity (Lev. 16:5, 1"}, {"id": "card_c_61b9752c0f05", "title": "Easton: Congregation cites Joel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Joel 2:15 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_ea3ad39da04b", "title": "Easton: Congregation cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 12:20 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_6330ececca69", "title": "Easton: Congregation cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 11:19 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_74fce65f6a01", "title": "Easton: Congregation cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 13:43 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_93de183766a4", "title": "Easton: Congregation references Canaan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Canaan (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_fb473e563854", "title": "Easton: Congregation, mount of the references Babylon", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Babylon (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_10b60d6904c3", "title": "Easton: Congregation, mount of the references Mount", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Mount (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_615dd6cca916", "title": "Easton: Convocation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A meeting of a religious character as distinguished from congregation, which was more general, dealing with political and legal matters. Hence it is called an “holy convocation.” Such convocations wer"}, {"id": "card_n_da31f52734ca", "title": "Easton: Eunuch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Literally bed-keeper or chamberlain, and not necessarily in all cases one who was mutilated, although the practice of employing such mutilated persons in Oriental courts was common (2 Kings 9:32; Esth"}, {"id": "card_n_56c311dbb95f", "title": "Easton: Alien", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A foreigner, or person born in another country, and therefore not entitled to the rights and privileges of the country where he resides. Among the Hebrews there were two classes of aliens. (1.) Those "}, {"id": "card_n_8603329d496d", "title": "Easton: Census", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are five instances of a census of the Jewish people having been taken. (1.) In the fourth month after the Exodus, when the people were encamped at Sinai. The number of men from twenty years old "}, {"id": "card_n_f41baa987d0f", "title": "Easton: Tabernacle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A house or dwelling-place (Job 5:24; 18:6, etc.). (2.) A portable shrine (comp. Acts 19:24) containing the image of Moloch (Amos 5:26; marg. and R.V., “Siccuth”). (3.) The human body (2 Cor. 5:1,"}, {"id": "card_n_56e151b61acf", "title": "Easton: Hell", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Derived from the Saxon helan, to cover; hence the covered or the invisible place. In Scripture there are three words so rendered: (1.) Sheol, occurring in the Old Testament sixty-five times. This word"}, {"id": "card_n_3e92bb4efc83", "title": "Easton: Ammonite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The usual name of the descendants of Ammon, the son of Lot (Gen. 19:38). From the very beginning (Deut. 2:16-20) of their history till they are lost sight of (Judg. 5:2), this tribe is closely associa"}, {"id": "card_n_21b324ea833f", "title": "Easton: Wailing-place, Jews’", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A section of the western wall of the temple area, where the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail their desolate condition (Ps. 79:1, 4, 5). The stones in this part of the wall are of great s"}]}