{"query": "Easton: Death", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1d9002e393d5", "title": "Easton: Death", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "May be simply defined as the termination of life. It is represented under a variety of aspects in Scripture: (1.) “The dust shall return to the earth as it was” (Eccl. 12:7). (2.) “Thou takest away th"}, {"id": "card_n_0ebb7aaff738", "title": "Easton: Curse", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Denounced by God against the serpent (Gen. 3:14), and against Cain (4:11). These divine maledictions carried their effect with them. Prophetical curses were sometimes pronounced by holy men (Gen. 9:25"}, {"id": "card_n_1006cff8ab6d", "title": "Easton: Ehud", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Union. (1.) A descendant of Benjamin (1 Chr. 7:10), his great-grandson. (2.) The son of Gera, of the tribe of Benjamin (Judg. 3:15). After the death of Othniel the people again fell into idolatry, and"}, {"id": "card_n_01f0ed1ac496", "title": "Easton: Eternal death", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The miserable fate of the wicked in hell (Matt. 25:46; Mark 3:29; Heb. 6:2; 2 Thess. 1:9; Matt. 18:8; 25:41; Jude 1:7). The Scripture as clearly teaches the unending duration of the penal sufferings o"}, {"id": "card_n_56b90b6e70b0", "title": "Easton: Jehoash", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah-given. (1.) The son of King Ahaziah. While yet an infant, he was saved from the general massacre of the family by his aunt Jehosheba, and was apparently the only surviving descendant of Solomo"}, {"id": "card_n_a6c94441bfe4", "title": "Romans 6", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?\n2. May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?\n3. Or don’t you know that all of us who were bap"}, {"id": "card_n_9c593c89814f", "title": "Easton: Barabbas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., son of Abba or of a father, a notorious robber whom Pilate proposed to condemn to death instead of Jesus, whom he wished to release, in accordance with the Roman custom (John 18:40; Mark 15:7; L"}, {"id": "card_n_4213af7bc4b1", "title": "Easton: Muth-labben", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurring only in the title of Psalm 9. Some interpret the words as meaning “on the death of Labben,” some unknown person. Others render the word, “on the death of the son;” i.e., of Absalom (2 Sam. 1"}, {"id": "card_n_7bf853034fae", "title": "Easton: Bernice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bearer of victory, the eldest daughter of Agrippa I., the Herod Agrippa of Acts 12:20. After the early death of her first husband she was married to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis. After his death ("}, {"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_0d71fa11dc6b", "title": "Easton: Uriah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Lord is my light. (1.) A Hittite, the husband of Bathsheba, whom David first seduced, and then after Uriah’s death married. He was one of the band of David’s “mighty men.” The sad story of the cur"}, {"id": "card_n_2ec823698af9", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xxix: Augustus his court; his wife, his daughter, his nephews, his sons-in-law his ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Augustus his court; his wife, his daughter, his nephews, his sons-in-law his sister, Agrippa, his kinsmen, his domestics, his friends; Areus, Mæcenas, his slayers of beasts for sacrifice and divinatio"}, {"id": "card_n_89076c1a1866", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxvii: Let that of Heraclitus never be out of thy mind, that the death of earth, is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let that of Heraclitus never be out of thy mind, that the death of earth, is water, and the death of water, is air; and the death of air, is fire; and so on the contrary. Remember him also who was ign"}, {"id": "card_n_7009081c8db2", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xvii: If so be that the souls remain after death (say they that will not believe it...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If so be that the souls remain after death (say they that will not believe it); how is the air from all eternity able to contain them? How is the earth (say I) ever from that time able to Contain the "}, {"id": "card_n_1db7a933c73a", "title": "Easton: Zachariah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Remembered by the Lord. (1.) Son of Jeroboam II., king of Israel. On the death of his father there was an interregnum of ten years, at the end of which he succeeded to the throne, which he occupied on"}, {"id": "card_n_255b2f32e29b", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_504: Thus having treated of the hollowness of so many apparent virtues, it is but ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Thus having treated of the hollowness of so many apparent virtues, it is but just to say something on the hollowness of the contempt for death. I allude to that contempt of death which the heathen boa"}, {"id": "card_n_48c7f61b414f", "title": "Easton: Athaliah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God afflicts. (1.) The daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah (2 Kings 8:18), who “walked in the ways of the house of Ahab” (2 Chr. 21:6), called “daughter” of Omri "}, {"id": "card_n_93218c103111", "title": "Easton: Ophrah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A fawn. 1 Chr. 4:14. (1.) A city of Benjamin (Josh. 18:23); probably identical with Ephron (2 Chr. 13:19) and Ephraim (John 11:54). (2.) “Of the Abi-ezrites.” A city of Manasseh, 6 miles south-west of"}, {"id": "card_n_b0edca62204b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xxvii: To stir up a man to the contempt of death this among other things, is of good...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "To stir up a man to the contempt of death this among other things, is of good power and efficacy, that even they who esteemed pleasure to be happiness, and pain misery, did nevertheless many of them c"}, {"id": "card_n_9d6ff4e631a8", "title": "Easton: Tamar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Palm. (1.) A place mentioned by Ezekiel (47:19; 48:28), on the southeastern border of Palestine. Some suppose this was “Tadmor” (q.v.). (2.) The daughter-in-law of Judah, to whose eldest son, Er, she "}]}