{"query": "Easton: Heap", "count": 12, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c9acdc85cddd", "title": "Easton: Heap", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When Joshua took the city of Ai (Josh. 8), he burned it and “made it an heap [Heb. tel] for ever” (8:28). The ruins of this city were for a long time sought for in vain. It has been at length, however"}, {"id": "card_n_6de6b9b58236", "title": "Easton: Galeed", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heap of witness, the name of the pile of stones erected by Jacob and Laban to mark the league of friendship into which they entered with each other (Gen. 31:47, 48). This was the name given to the “he"}, {"id": "card_n_08cd88673b68", "title": "Easton: Homer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heap, the largest of dry measures, containing about 8 bushels or 1 quarter English = 10 ephahs (Lev. 27:16; Num. 11:32) = a COR. (See OMER.) “Half a homer,” a grain measure mentioned only in Hos. 3:2."}, {"id": "card_n_61cdd675ca8f", "title": "Easton: Ezel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A separation, (1 Sam. 20:19), a stone, or heap of stones, in the neighbourhood of Saul’s residence, the scene of the parting of David and Jonathan (42). The margin of the Authorized Version reads, “Th"}, {"id": "card_n_4d926e871ddc", "title": "Easton: Adam, the city of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is referred to in Josh. 3:16. It stood “beside Zarethan,” on the west bank of Jordan (1 Kings 4:12). At this city the flow of the water was arrested and rose up “upon an heap” at the time of the Israe"}, {"id": "card_c_85f7810cb47d", "title": "Easton: Heap 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_b46987c2db47", "title": "Easton: Ellasar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The oak or heap of Assyria, a territory in Asia of which Arioch was king (Gen. 14:1, 9). It is supposed that the old Chaldean town of Larsa was the metropolis of this kingdom, situated nearly half-way"}, {"id": "card_n_8817fb29e463", "title": "Easton: Sling", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "With a sling and a stone David smote the Philistine giant (1 Sam. 17:40, 49). There were 700 Benjamites who were so skilled in its use that with the left hand they “could sling stones at a hair breadt"}, {"id": "card_n_1265d9c7f705", "title": "Easton: Zaretan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When the Hebrews crossed the Jordan, as soon as the feet of the priests were dipped in the water, the flow of the stream was arrested. The point of arrest was the “city of Adam beside Zaretan,” probab"}, {"id": "card_n_1ecf3ef328b0", "title": "Easton: Achan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also Achar, i.e., one who troubles (1 Chr. 2:7), in commemoration of his crime, which brought upon him an awful destruction (Josh. 7:1). On the occasion of the fall of Jericho, he seized, contr"}, {"id": "card_n_8dea0602467a", "title": "Easton: Ziklag", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A town in the Negeb, or south country of Judah (Josh. 15:31), in the possession of the Philistines when David fled to Gath from Ziph with all his followers. Achish, the king, assigned him Ziklag as hi"}, {"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 "}]}