{"query": "Easton: First-born, Sanctification of the", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_eda5117447df", "title": "Easton: First-born, Sanctification of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A peculiar sanctity was attached to the first-born both of man and of cattle. God claimed that the first-born males of man and of animals should be consecrated to him, the one as a priest (Ex. 19:22, "}, {"id": "card_n_018641dc4cd7", "title": "Easton: First-born, Redemption of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the beginning the office of the priesthood in each family belonged to the eldest son. But when the extensive plan of sacrificial worship was introduced, requiring a company of men to be exclusive"}, {"id": "card_n_12032d50c8df", "title": "Easton: Birthright", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) This word denotes the special privileges and advantages belonging to the first-born son among the Jews. He became the priest of the family. Thus Reuben was the first-born of the patriarchs, and s"}, {"id": "card_n_c3ca1cb7e6ce", "title": "Easton: First-born", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sons enjoyed certain special privileges (Deut. 21:17; Gen. 25:23, 31, 34; 49:3; 1 Chr. 5:1; Heb. 12:16; Ps. 89:27). (See BIRTHRIGHT.) The “first-born of the poor” signifies the most miserable of the p"}, {"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_048bd5e3c62d", "title": "Easton: Samuel, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The LXX. translators regarded the books of Samuel and of Kings as forming one continuous history, which they divided into four books, which they called “Books of the Kingdom.” The Vulgate version foll"}, {"id": "card_n_1cd8ff22d726", "title": "Easton: Sanctification", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Involves more than a mere moral reformation of character, brought about by the power of the truth: it is the work of the Holy Spirit bringing the whole nature more and more under the influences of the"}, {"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_ecd6fdc9a41f", "title": "Easton: Daniel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God is my judge, or judge of God. (1.) David’s second son, “born unto him in Hebron, of Abigail the Carmelitess” (1 Chr. 3:1). He is called also Chileab (2 Sam. 3:3). (2.) One of the four great prophe"}, {"id": "card_n_f1e16ac15376", "title": "Easton: Abdon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Servile. (1.) The son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, the tenth judge of Israel (Judg. 12:13-15). He is probably the Bedan of 1 Sam. 12:11. (2.) The first-born of Gibeon of the tribe of Benjamin (1 Chr. 8:3"}, {"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_f2876a283a4f", "title": "Easton: Solomon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David’s second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father on"}, {"id": "card_n_f24a6ecc4dd4", "title": "Easton: Mesha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Middle district, Vulgate, Messa. (1.) A plain in that part of the boundaries of Arabia inhabited by the descendants of Joktan (Gen. 10:30). (2.) Heb. meysh’a, “deliverance,” the eldest son of Caleb (1"}, {"id": "card_n_e26790741c38", "title": "Easton: Fall of man", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An expression probably borrowed from the Apocryphal Book of Wisdom, to express the fact of the revolt of our first parents from God, and the consequent sin and misery in which they and all their poste"}, {"id": "card_n_3b46d79dcf77", "title": "Easton: Adam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages. It was the name given to the first man, whose creation, fall, and subsequent history"}, {"id": "card_n_efd92dd5f79e", "title": "Easton: Luke, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Luke. He does not claim to have been an eye-witness of our Lord’s ministry, but to have gone to the best sources of information within his reach, and to have written an orderly narrativ"}, {"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_5b5569c35c17", "title": "Easton: Micah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A shortened form of Micaiah, who is like Jehovah? (1.) A man of Mount Ephraim, whose history so far is introduced in Judg. 17, apparently for the purpose of leading to an account of the settlement of "}, {"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_c42ad4111361", "title": "Easton: Ephraim, The tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Took precedence over that of Manasseh by virtue of Jacob’s blessing (Gen. 41:52; 48:1). The descendants of Joseph formed two of the tribes of Israel, whereas each of the other sons of Jacob was the fo"}]}