{"query": "Easton: Fly", "count": 11, "results": [{"id": "card_n_348ffb4b52e7", "title": "Easton: Fly", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. zebub, (Eccl. 10:1; Isa. 7:18). This fly was so grievous a pest that the Phoenicians invoked against it the aid of their god Baal-zebub (q.v.). The prophet Isaiah (7:18) alludes to some poisonous"}, {"id": "card_c_83859e293cd8", "title": "Easton: Fly references Isaiah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Isaiah. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_33acf48d1c8e", "title": "Easton: Baal-zebub", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fly-lord, the god of the Philistines at Ekron (2 Kings 1:2, 3, 16). This name was given to the god because he was supposed to be able to avert the plague of flies which in that region was to be feared"}, {"id": "card_c_829b4a60f9aa", "title": "Easton: Fly 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_n_a997f69b8268", "title": "Easton: Bee", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First mentioned in Deut. 1:44. Swarms of bees, and the danger of their attacks, are mentioned in Ps. 118:12. Samson found a “swarm of bees” in the carcass of a lion he had slain (Judg. 14:8). Wild bee"}, {"id": "card_n_dc7fb4ab877e", "title": "Easton: Gnat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only in Matt. 23:24, a small two-winged stinging fly of the genus Culex, which includes mosquitoes. Our Lord alludes here to the gnat in a proverbial expression probably in common use, “who strain out"}, {"id": "card_n_1987410ceae9", "title": "Easton: Plague", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “stroke” of affliction, or disease. Sent as a divine chastisement (Num. 11:33; 14:37; 16:46-49; 2 Sam. 24:21). Painful afflictions or diseases, (Lev. 13:3, 5, 30; 1 Kings 8:37), or severe calamity ("}, {"id": "card_n_74d76e72e21a", "title": "Easton: Esarhaddon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Assur has given a brother, successor of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:37; Isa. 37:38). He ascended the throne about B.C. 681. Nothing further is recorded of him in Scripture, except that he settled certain "}, {"id": "card_n_c87916837c0d", "title": "Easton: Eagle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Herb. nesher; properly the griffon vulture or great vulture, so called from its tearing its prey with its beak), referred to for its swiftness of flight (Deut. 28:49; 2 Sam. 1:23), its mounting high "}, {"id": "card_n_653f254f3655", "title": "Easton: Dove", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In their wild state doves generally build their nests in the clefts of rocks, but when domesticated “dove-cots” are prepared for them (Cant. 2:14; Jer. 48:28; Isa. 60:8). The dove was placed on the st"}, {"id": "card_n_884f17aa16cc", "title": "Easton: Locust", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are ten Hebrew words used in Scripture to signify locust. In the New Testament locusts are mentioned as forming part of the food of John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6). By the Mosaic law they"}]}