{"query": "Easton: Fenced cities", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6bd16e73d103", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were in Palestine (1) cities, (2) unwalled villages, and (3) villages with castles or towers (1 Chr. 27:25). Cities, so called, had walls, and were thus fenced. The fortifications consisted of o"}, {"id": "card_n_4fdf3cc0a40c", "title": "Easton: City", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The earliest mention of city-building is that of Enoch, which was built by Cain (Gen. 4:17). After the confusion of tongues, the descendants of Nimrod founded several cities (10:10-12). Next, we have "}, {"id": "card_n_f5b7b677ec46", "title": "Easton: Cinnereth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A harp, one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (Josh. 19:35; comp. Deut. 3:17). It also denotes, apparently, a district which may have taken its name from the adjacent city or lake of Gennesaret, anci"}, {"id": "card_c_46b8b6fc9e69", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_be62531a8449", "title": "Easton: Decapolis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ten cities=deka, ten, and polis, a city, a district on the east and south-east of the Sea of Galilee containing “ten cities,” which were chiefly inhabited by Greeks. It included a portion of Bashan an"}, {"id": "card_n_8dfa0797559c", "title": "Easton: Siddim, Vale of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Valley of the broad plains, “which is the salt sea” (Gen. 14:3, 8, 10), between Engedi and the cities of the plain, at the south end of the Dead Sea. It was “full of slime-pits” (R.V., “bitumen pits”)"}, {"id": "card_n_c2877d726411", "title": "Easton: Sennacherib", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sin (the god) sends many brothers, son of Sargon, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria (B.C. 705), in the 23rd year of Hezekiah. “Like the Persian Xerxes, he was weak and vainglorious, cowardly "}, {"id": "card_c_94585803194f", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities references Canaanites", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Canaanites (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_eeed3acec5a2", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (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_651f552222fb", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities 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_c_d0d8355685b2", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities references Judah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Judah (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_9d3782ab1312", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (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_ee6df934e217", "title": "Easton: Hammath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Warm springs, one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (Josh. 19:35). It is identified with the warm baths (the heat of the water ranging from 136 degrees to 144 degrees) still found on the shore a litt"}, {"id": "card_n_feca9c876bc7", "title": "Easton: Shishak I", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Sheshonk I., king of Egypt. His reign was one of great national success, and a record of his wars and conquests adorns the portico of what are called the “Bubastite kings” at Karnak, the ancient Theb"}, {"id": "card_n_70b3d24495b5", "title": "Easton: Beth-shemesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of the sun. (1.) A sacerdotal city in the tribe of Dan (Josh. 21:16; 1 Sam. 6:15), on the north border of Judah (Josh. 15:10). It was the scene of an encounter between Jehoash, king of Israel, a"}, {"id": "card_n_43105d82f21d", "title": "Easton: Kedesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sanctuary. (1.) A place in the extreme south of Judah (Josh. 15:23). Probably the same as Kadesh-barnea (q.v.). (2.) A city of Issachar (1 Chr. 6:72). Possibly Tell Abu Kadeis, near Lejjun. (3.) A “fe"}, {"id": "card_n_110c6f39abfb", "title": "Easton: Cabul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "How little! as nothing. (1.) A town on the eastern border of Asher (Josh. 19:27), probably one of the towns given by Solomon to Hiram; the modern Kabul, some 8 miles east of Accho, on the very borders"}, {"id": "card_n_45a18a8bc904", "title": "Easton: House", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Till their sojourn in Egypt the Hebrews dwelt in tents. They then for the first time inhabited cities (Gen. 47:3; Ex. 12:7; Heb. 11:9). From the earliest times the Assyrians and the Canaanites were bu"}, {"id": "card_n_181ba0e5ff03", "title": "Easton: Argob", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stony heap, an “island,” as it has been called, of rock about 30 miles by 20, rising 20 or 30 feet above the table-land of Bashan; a region of crags and chasms wild and rugged in the extreme. On this "}, {"id": "card_n_bfcceeae1179", "title": "Easton: Pithom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Egyptian, Pa-Tum, “house of Tum,” the sun-god, one of the “treasure” cities built for Pharaoh Rameses II. by the Israelites (Ex. 1:11). It was probably the Patumos of the Greek historian Herodotus. It"}]}