{"query": "Easton: Esther, Book of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b0a399e44fbf", "title": "Easton: Esther, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The authorship of this book is unknown. It must have been obviously written after the death of Ahasuerus (the Xerxes of the Greeks), which took place B.C. 465. The minute and particular account also g"}, {"id": "card_n_c61aa49bf7b4", "title": "Easton: Esther", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The queen of Ahasuerus, and heroine of the book that bears her name. She was a Jewess named Hadas’sah (the myrtle), but when she entered the royal harem she received the name by which she henceforth b"}, {"id": "card_n_d064b0d2110e", "title": "Easton: Shushan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A lily, the Susa of Greek and Roman writers, once the capital of Elam. It lay in the uplands of Susiana, on the east of the Tigris, about 150 miles to the north of the head of the Persian Gulf. It is "}, {"id": "card_c_7681c98b123b", "title": "Easton: Esther cites Esther", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Esther 2:7; Esther 2:15 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_953993475f68", "title": "Easton: Ahasuerus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are three kings designated by this name in Scripture. (1.) The father of Darius the Mede, mentioned in Dan. 9:1. This was probably the Cyaxares I. known by this name in profane history, the king"}, {"id": "card_c_86c7ee90e9b3", "title": "Easton: Colour cites Esther", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Esther 1:6; Esther 8:15 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_68815d42c008", "title": "Easton: Haman cites Esther", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Esther 3:1; Esther 7:10 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_80b31d276534", "title": "Easton: Dress cites Esther", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Esther 6:12; Esther 4:1 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_32cf7ec6d4f8", "title": "Easton: Mordecai cites Esther", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Esther 2:21; Esther 3:8 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_d37649c81c16", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author of this book was no doubt Nehemiah himself. There are portions of the book written in the first person (ch. 1-7; 12:27-47, and 13). But there are also portions of it in which Nehemiah is sp"}, {"id": "card_n_915917bcd1fb", "title": "Easton: Revelation, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=The Apocalypse, the closing book and the only prophetical book of the New Testament canon. The author of this book was undoubtedly John the apostle. His name occurs four times in the book itself (1:1"}, {"id": "card_n_3f25971a39e2", "title": "Easton: Chronicles, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., “Acts of the Days.” This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version “Chronicon,” and hence "}, {"id": "card_n_734bcd21be45", "title": "Easton: Joshua, The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Contains a history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to that of Joshua. It consists of three parts: (1.) The history of the conquest of the land (1-12). (2.) The allotment of the land to the d"}, {"id": "card_n_addb6bb817e8", "title": "Easton: Proverbs, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A collection of moral and philosophical maxims of a wide range of subjects presented in a poetic form. This book sets forth the “philosophy of practical life. It is the sign to us that the Bible does "}, {"id": "card_n_ea0835f4fb1b", "title": "Easton: Jasher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Upright. “The Book of Jasher,” rendered in the LXX. “the Book of the Upright One,” by the Vulgate “the Book of Just Ones,” was probably a kind of national sacred song-book, a collection of songs in pr"}, {"id": "card_n_5a0d951f0365", "title": "Easton: Ezra, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the"}, {"id": "card_n_2acf4e5828ab", "title": "Easton: Ruth The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was originally a part of the Book of Judges, but it now forms one of the twenty-four separate books of the Hebrew Bible. The history it contains refers to a period perhaps about one hundred and twenty"}, {"id": "card_n_fdff2a158d3f", "title": "Easton: Numbers, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew be-midbar, i.e., “in the wilderness.” In the LXX. version it is called “Numbers,” and this name is now the usual title of the book. It i"}, {"id": "card_c_0363f95c88d4", "title": "Easton: Myrrh cites Esther", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Esther 2:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_cee4e8d8e59c", "title": "Easton: Crown cites Esther", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Esther 1:11 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}]}