{"query": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of", "count": 19, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5d02125f449c", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 24:15; Mark 13:14; comp. Luke 21:20), is interpreted of the eagles, the standards of the Roman army, which were an abomination to the Jews. These standards, rising over the site of the temple, "}, {"id": "card_n_00ad27463b47", "title": "Easton: Banner", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The flag or banner of the larger kind, serving for three tribes marching together. These standards, of which there were four, were worked with embroidery and beautifully ornamented (Num. 1:52; 2:"}, {"id": "card_c_9cbb55173ab9", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_f771667c5514", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of references Romans", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Romans. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_d6c37d497bba", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 13:14 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_a321316abfdf", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 21:20 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_91d44fbb570c", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of references Dan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Dan (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_n_66a391ecb6ba", "title": "Easton: Abomination", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used, (1.) To express the idea that the Egyptians considered themselves as defiled when they ate with strangers (Gen. 43:32). The Jews subsequently followed the same practice, holding it "}, {"id": "card_n_d82725fd8bf4", "title": "Easton: Tophet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Topheth, from Heb. toph “a drum,” because the cries of children here sacrificed by the priests of Moloch were drowned by the noise of such an instrument; or from taph or toph, meaning “to burn,” and "}, {"id": "card_n_6df852add6ba", "title": "Easton: Magic", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews seem early to have consulted the teraphim (q.v.) for oracular answers (Judg. 18:5, 6; Zech. 10:2). There is a remarkable illustration of this divining by teraphim in Ezek. 21:19-22. We read a"}, {"id": "card_n_8bbf589ae37d", "title": "Easton: Owl", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. bath-haya’anah, “daughter of greediness” or of “shouting.” In the list of unclean birds (Lev. 11:16; Deut. 14:15); also mentioned in Job 30:29; Isa. 13:21; 34:13; 43:20; Jer. 50:39; Micah 1:"}, {"id": "card_n_1ffb2d925d30", "title": "Easton: Nineveh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First mentioned in Gen. 10:11, which is rendered in the Revised Version, “He [i.e., Nimrod] went forth into Assyria and builded Nineveh.” It is not again noticed till the days of Jonah, when it is des"}, {"id": "card_n_6a347eb01bbd", "title": "Easton: Chemosh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The destroyer, subduer, or fish-god, the god of the Moabites (Num. 21:29; Jer. 48:7, 13, 46). The worship of this god, “the abomination of Moab,” was introduced at Jerusalem by Solomon (1 Kings 11:7),"}, {"id": "card_n_862359670dbe", "title": "Easton: Bittern", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is found three times in connection with the desolations to come upon Babylon, Idumea, and Nineveh (Isa. 14:23; 34:11; Zeph. 2:14). This bird belongs to the class of cranes. Its scientific name is Bota"}, {"id": "card_n_d6bcf930e9b3", "title": "Easton: Bat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew word (atalleph’) so rendered (Lev. 11:19; Deut. 14:18) implies “flying in the dark.” The bat is reckoned among the birds in the list of unclean animals. To cast idols to the “moles and to t"}, {"id": "card_c_c6e9c3efee76", "title": "Easton: Abomination references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_cd70cade58d0", "title": "Easton: Abomination references Romans", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Romans. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_edbd8dccfa0d", "title": "Easton: Abomination references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_1154c6cdc718", "title": "Easton: Abomination cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 18:28 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}]}