{"query": "Easton: Famine", "count": 19, "results": [{"id": "card_n_cd6da3d389e4", "title": "Easton: Famine", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first mentioned in Scripture was so grievous as to compel Abraham to go down to the land of Egypt (Gen. 26:1). Another is mentioned as having occurred in the days of Isaac, causing him to go to Ge"}, {"id": "card_n_2e213cebbc2c", "title": "Easton: Dearth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17). There were frequent dearths in Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a “famine in the land” (Gen. 12:10), so also in the days of Jacob (47:4, 13). We read al"}, {"id": "card_c_d237592d088e", "title": "Easton: Famine cites Amos", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Amos 8:11 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_7cb2ece9daa8", "title": "Easton: Famine cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 11:28 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_77c7a956c6bf", "title": "Easton: Famine cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 8:1; 2 Kings 6:25 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_49657c2df55e", "title": "Easton: Tooth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the particulars regarding which retaliatory punishment was to be inflicted (Ex. 21:24; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21). “Gnashing of teeth” =rage, despair (Matt. 8:12; Acts 7:54); “cleanness of teeth”"}, {"id": "card_n_2b2214d01185", "title": "Easton: Agabus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “prophet,” probably one of the seventy disciples of Christ. He prophesied at Antioch of an approaching famine (Acts 11:27, 28). Many years afterwards he met Paul at Caesarea, and warned him of the b"}, {"id": "card_n_cc78c33b4617", "title": "Easton: Ebed-melech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A servant of the king; probably an official title, an Ethiopian, “one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house;” i.e., in the palace of Zedekiah, king of Judah. He interceded with the king in Jere"}, {"id": "card_c_97c69b5c310b", "title": "Easton: Famine references Abraham", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Abraham (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_429c19581277", "title": "Easton: Famine 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_42d1f0500eb0", "title": "Easton: Famine references Gerar", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Gerar (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_9164e75fdb17", "title": "Easton: Famine references Isaac", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Isaac (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_de277eb25113", "title": "Easton: Famine references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (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_0777592512bd", "title": "Easton: Zarephath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Smelting-shop, “a workshop for the refining and smelting of metals”, a small Phoenician town, now Surafend, about a mile from the coast, almost midway on the road between Tyre and Sidon. Here Elijah s"}, {"id": "card_n_954e0f9a06ad", "title": "Easton: Dove’s dung", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Kings 6:25) has been generally understood literally. There are instances in history of the dung of pigeons being actually used as food during a famine. Compare also the language of Rabshakeh to the"}, {"id": "card_n_7b77645977f5", "title": "Easton: Shunem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Two resting-places, a little village in the tribe of Issachar, to the north of Jezreel and south of Mount Gilboa (Josh. 19:18), where the Philistines encamped when they came against Saul (1 Sam. 28:4)"}, {"id": "card_n_75013b2c101b", "title": "Easton: Isaac", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Laughter. (1) Israel, or the kingdom of the ten tribes (Amos 7:9, 16). (2.) The only son of Abraham by Sarah. He was the longest lived of the three patriarchs (Gen. 21:1-3). He was circumcised when ei"}, {"id": "card_n_d5298af6220d", "title": "Easton: Rizpah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Coal; hot stone, the daughter of Aiah, and one of Saul’s concubines. She was the mother of Armoni and Mephibosheth (2 Sam. 3:7; 21:8, 10, 11). It happened that a grievous famine, which lasted for thre"}, {"id": "card_n_0bafdf976ecb", "title": "Easton: Elijah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whose God is Jehovah. (1.) “The Tishbite,” the “Elias” of the New Testament, is suddenly introduced to our notice in 1 Kings 17:1 as delivering a message from the Lord to Ahab. There is mention made o"}]}