{"query": "Easton: Feast", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_37284637e771", "title": "Easton: Tabernacles, Feast of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The third of the great annual festivals of the Jews (Lev. 23:33-43). It is also called the “feast of ingathering” (Ex. 23:16; Deut. 16:13). It was celebrated immediately after the harvest, in the mont"}, {"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_2b842a4e6efa", "title": "Easton: Trumpets, Feast of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was celebrated at the beginning of the month Tisri, the first month of the civil year. It received its name from the circumstances that the trumpets usually blown at the commencement of each month wer"}, {"id": "card_n_e2da6efaf1f0", "title": "Easton: Dedication, Feast of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 10:22, 42), i.e., the feast of the renewing. It was instituted B.C. 164 to commemorate the purging of the temple after its pollution by Antiochus Epiphanes (B.C. 167), and the rebuilding of the "}, {"id": "card_n_a13975ce6129", "title": "Easton: Festivals, Religious", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were daily (Lev. 23), weekly, monthly, and yearly festivals, and great stress was laid on the regular observance of them in every particular (Num. 28:1-8; Ex. 29:38-42; Lev. 6:8-23; Ex. 30:7-9; "}, {"id": "card_n_972ee38e2278", "title": "Easton: Hallel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Praise, the name given to the group of Psalms 113-118, which are preeminently psalms of praise. It is called “The Egyptian Hallel,” because it was chanted in the temple whilst the Passover lambs were "}, {"id": "card_n_14110e5bcd41", "title": "Easton: Banquet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A feast provided for the entertainment of a company of guests (Esther 5; 7; 1 Pet. 4:3); such as was provided for our Lord by his friends in Bethany (Matt. 26:6; Mark 14:3; comp. John 12:2). These mea"}, {"id": "card_n_b560cfdfff5a", "title": "Easton: Passover", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the chief of the three great historical annual festivals of the Jews. It was kept in remembrance of the Lord’s passing over the houses of the Israelites (Ex. 12:13) when the first bo"}, {"id": "card_n_39fb74a3b5b2", "title": "Easton: Pentecost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day of"}, {"id": "card_n_83d8636f0551", "title": "Easton: Feast", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As a mark of hospitality (Gen. 19:3; 2 Sam. 3:20; 2 Kings 6:23); on occasions of domestic joy (Luke 15:23; Gen. 21:8); on birthdays (Gen. 40:20; Job 1:4; Matt. 14:6); and on the occasion of a marriage"}, {"id": "card_n_22287c2f7117", "title": "Easton: Seven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This number occurs frequently in Scripture, and in such connections as lead to the supposition that it has some typical meaning. On the seventh day God rested, and hallowed it (Gen. 2:2, 3). The divis"}, {"id": "card_n_f434f3cdb669", "title": "Easton: Matthew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gift of God, a common Jewish name after the Exile. He was the son of Alphaeus, and was a publican or tax-gatherer at Capernaum. On one occasion Jesus, coming up from the side of the lake, passed the c"}, {"id": "card_n_3eac20d6d4c5", "title": "Easton: First-fruits", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first-fruits of the ground were offered unto God just as the first-born of man and animals. The law required, (1.) That on the morrow after the Passover Sabbath a sheaf of new corn should be waved"}, {"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_c_e2a9c28bb295", "title": "Easton: Feast references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_4169de534c40", "title": "Easton: Feast cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 6:23 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_610289538707", "title": "Easton: Feast cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 1:4 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_349064a8c848", "title": "Easton: Tabernacles, Feast of cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 8:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_ee40161c27ff", "title": "Easton: Date", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The fruit of a species of palm (q.v.), the Phoenix dactilifera. This was a common tree in Palestine (Joel 1:12; Neh. 8:15). Palm branches were carried by the Jews on festive occasions, and especially "}, {"id": "card_c_901286e4e6e0", "title": "Easton: Feast cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 15:23 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}]}