{"query": "Easton: Idol", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7d599fee868f", "title": "Easton: Malcam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Sam. 12:30, Heb., R.V., “their king;” Jer. 49:1, 3, R.V.; Zeph. 1:5), the national idol of the Ammonites. When Rabbah was taken by David, the crown of this idol was among the spoils. The weight is "}, {"id": "card_n_1a9376024918", "title": "Easton: Idol", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. aven, “nothingness;” “vanity” (Isa. 66:3; 41:29; Deut. 32:21; 1 Kings 16:13; Ps. 31:6; Jer. 8:19, etc.). (2.) ‘Elil, “a thing of naught” (Ps. 97:7; Isa. 19:3); a word of contempt, used of th"}, {"id": "card_n_9a8d22adb8b7", "title": "Easton: Meni", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Isa. 65:11, marg. (A.V., “that number;” R.V., “destiny”), probably an idol which the captive Israelites worshipped after the example of the Babylonians. It may have been a symbol of destiny. LXX., tuc"}, {"id": "card_c_98968c12ae67", "title": "Easton: Idol cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 3:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_e26925a31ebf", "title": "Easton: Idol cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 16:13; 1 Kings 15:13 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_0b082cb30896", "title": "Easton: Adrammelech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Adar the king. (1.) An idol; a form of the sun-god worshipped by the inhabitants of Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:31), and brought by the Sepharvite colonists into Samaria. (2.) A son of Sennacherib, king of"}, {"id": "card_n_133c36bfe8ff", "title": "Easton: Nisroch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Probably connected with the Hebrew word nesher, an eagle. An Assyrian god, supposed to be that represented with the head of an eagle. Sennacherib was killed in the temple of this idol (2 Kings 19:37; "}, {"id": "card_n_e0ced34f1e04", "title": "Easton: Baal-peor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lord of the opening, a god of the Moabites (Num. 25:3; 31:16; Josh. 22:17), worshipped by obscene rites. So called from Mount Peor, where this worship was celebrated, the Baal of Peor. The Israelites "}, {"id": "card_n_c693874bb19a", "title": "Easton: Mount of corruption", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Kings 23:13; Vulg., “mount of offence”), the name given to a part of the Mount of Olives, so called because idol temples were there erected in the time of Solomon, temples to the Zidonian Ashtoreth"}, {"id": "card_c_4a39bf480826", "title": "Easton: Idol 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_b22fe15627a4", "title": "Easton: Idol references Noph", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Noph (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_d8a1b559d721", "title": "Easton: Idol references Samuel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Samuel (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_n_c438b99ff841", "title": "Easton: Dagon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Little fish; diminutive from dag = a fish, the fish-god; the national god of the Philistines (Judg. 16:23). This idol had the body of a fish with the head and hands of a man. It was an Assyrio-Babylon"}, {"id": "card_n_eb2894baf03b", "title": "Easton: Ashes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The ashes of a red heifer burned entire (Num. 19:5) when sprinkled on the unclean made them ceremonially clean (Heb. 9:13). To cover the head with ashes was a token of self-abhorrence and humiliation "}, {"id": "card_n_9d93eaade0ae", "title": "Easton: Mishael", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Who is like God! (1.) A Levite; the eldest of the three sons of Uzziel (Ex. 6:22). (2.) One of the three Hebrew youths who were trained with Daniel in Babylon (Dan. 1:11, 19), and promoted to the rank"}, {"id": "card_n_b6cdf6aaa3f1", "title": "Easton: Satyr", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hairy one. Mentioned in Greek mythology as a creature composed of a man and a goat, supposed to inhabit wild and desolate regions. The Hebrew word is rendered also “goat” (Lev. 4:24) and “devil”, i.e."}, {"id": "card_n_9501c058ead6", "title": "Easton: Nehushtan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of copper; a brazen thing a name of contempt given to the serpent Moses had made in the wilderness (Num. 21:8), and which Hezekiah destroyed because the children of Israel began to regard it as an ido"}, {"id": "card_n_c84effbaf92f", "title": "Easton: Cutting", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The flesh in various ways was an idolatrous practice, a part of idol-worship (Deut. 14:1; 1 Kings 18:28). The Israelites were commanded not to imitate this practice (Lev. 19:28; 21:5; Deut. 14:1). The"}, {"id": "card_n_d81110bb4083", "title": "Easton: Moloch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "King, the name of the national god of the Ammonites, to whom children were sacrificed by fire. He was the consuming and destroying and also at the same time the purifying fire. In Amos 5:26, “your Mol"}, {"id": "card_n_1aa0292cf9e2", "title": "Easton: Almug", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Kings 10:11, 12) = algum (2 Chr. 2:8; 9:10, 11), in the Hebrew occurring only in the plural almuggim (indicating that the wood was brought in planks), the name of a wood brought from Ophir to be us"}]}