{"query": "Easton: Forces", "count": 12, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7cb72e89c54b", "title": "Easton: Forces", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the Gentiles (Isa. 60:5, 11; R.V., “the wealth of the nations”) denotes the wealth of the heathen. The whole passage means that the wealth of the Gentile world should be consecrated to the service "}, {"id": "card_n_d35c4f491a49", "title": "Easton: Lust", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sinful longing; the inward sin which leads to the falling away from God (Rom. 1:21). “Lust, the origin of sin, has its place in the heart, not of necessity, but because it is the centre of all moral f"}, {"id": "card_n_0d00db68f4ba", "title": "Easton: Bezek", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lightning. (1.) The residence of Adoni-bezek, in the lot of Judah (Judg. 1:5). It was in the mountains, not far from Jerusalem. Probably the modern Bezkah, 6 miles south-east of Lydda. (2.) The place "}, {"id": "card_n_b067e892b7dd", "title": "Easton: Hushai", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Quick, “the Archite,” “the king’s friend” (1 Chr. 27:33). When David fled from Jerusalem, on account of the rebellion of Absalom, and had reached the summit of Olivet, he there met Hushai, whom he sen"}, {"id": "card_n_6abad17329c2", "title": "Easton: Joab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is his father. (1.) One of the three sons of Zeruiah, David’s sister, and “captain of the host” during the whole of David’s reign (2 Sam. 2:13; 10:7; 11:1; 1 Kings 11:15). His father’s name is"}, {"id": "card_n_19cae5671feb", "title": "Easton: Rephaim, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Josh. 15:8; 18:16, R.V.). When David became king over all Israel, the Philistines, judging that he would now become their uncompromising enemy, made a sudden attack upon Hebron, compelling David to r"}, {"id": "card_n_4386d44613c7", "title": "Easton: Millennium", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A thousand years; the name given to the era mentioned in Rev. 20:1-7. Some maintain that Christ will personally appear on earth for the purpose of establishing his kingdom at the beginning of this mil"}, {"id": "card_n_058570f8c25e", "title": "Easton: Obadiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists of one chapter, “concerning Edom,” its impending doom (1:1-16), and the restoration of Israel (1:17-21). This is the shortest book of the Old Testament. There are on record the account of fou"}, {"id": "card_n_a59ff55849b5", "title": "Easton: Hadadezer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hadad is help; called also Hadarezer, Adod is his help, the king of Zobah. Hanun, the king of the Ammonites, hired among others the army of Hadadezer to assist him in his war against David. Joab, who "}, {"id": "card_n_b8e39dea4ae9", "title": "Easton: Mahanaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Two camps, a place near the Jabbok, beyond Jordan, where Jacob was met by the “angels of God,” and where he divided his retinue into “two hosts” on his return from Padan-aram (Gen. 32:2). This name wa"}, {"id": "card_n_626dcb04f1f2", "title": "Easton: Chushan-rishathaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cush of double wickedness, or governor of two presidencies, the king of Mesopotamia who oppressed Israel in the generation immediately following Joshua (Judg. 3:8). We learn from the Tell-el-Amarna ta"}, {"id": "card_n_38e08b8b0a3d", "title": "Easton: Helkath-hazzurim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Plot of the sharp blades, or the field of heroes, (2 Sam. 2:16). After the battle of Gilboa, so fatal to Saul and his house, David, as divinely directed, took up his residence in Hebron, and was there"}]}