{"query": "Easton: Israel, Kingdom of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_229b0241062e", "title": "Easton: Judah, Kingdom of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When the disruption took place at Shechem, at first only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David. But very soon after the tribe of Benjamin joined the tribe of Judah, and Jerusalem became the c"}, {"id": "card_n_cec34a6f1b1a", "title": "Easton: Israel, Kingdom of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(B.C. 975-B.C. 722). Soon after the death of Solomon, Ahijah’s prophecy (1 Kings 11:31-35) was fulfilled, and the kingdom was rent in twain. Rehoboam, the son and successor of Solomon, was scarcely se"}, {"id": "card_n_bd79da358d27", "title": "Easton: Exile", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of the kingdom of Israel. In the time of Pekah, Tiglath-pileser II. carried away captive into Assyria (2 Kings 15:29; comp. Isa. 10:5, 6) a part of the inhabitants of Galilee and of Gilead (B.C. "}, {"id": "card_n_aaeb5084db01", "title": "Easton: Jehoshaphat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah-judged. (1.) One of David’s body-guard (1 Chr. 11:43). (2.) One of the priests who accompanied the removal of the ark to Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15:24). (3.) Son of Ahilud, “recorder” or annalist un"}, {"id": "card_n_e045f88f1abc", "title": "Easton: Kingdom of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 6:33; Mark 1:14, 15; Luke 4:43) = “kingdom of Christ” (Matt. 13:41; 20:21) = “kingdom of Christ and of God” (Eph. 5:5) = “kingdom of David” (Mark 11:10) = “the kingdom” (Matt. 8:12; 13:19) = “k"}, {"id": "card_n_631cc9e6955b", "title": "Easton: Captivity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of Israel. The kingdom of the ten tribes was successively invaded by several Assyrian kings. Pul (q.v.) imposed a tribute on Menahem of a thousand talents of silver (2 Kings 15:19, 20; 1 Chr. 5:2"}, {"id": "card_n_8d80f1b2f1aa", "title": "Easton: Tribe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A collection of families descending from one ancestor. The “twelve tribes” of the Hebrews were the twelve collections of families which sprang from the sons of Jacob. In Matt. 24:30 the word has a wid"}, {"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_2db9fce50af9", "title": "Easton: Amos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Borne; a burden, one of the twelve minor prophets. He was a native of Tekota, the modern Tekua, a town about 12 miles south-east of Bethlehem. He was a man of humble birth, neither a “prophet nor a pr"}, {"id": "card_n_2e964ada3cc3", "title": "Easton: War", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Israelites had to take possession of the Promised Land by conquest. They had to engage in a long and bloody war before the Canaanitish tribes were finally subdued. Except in the case of Jericho an"}, {"id": "card_n_0b27c7f1c295", "title": "Easton: Ezekiel, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists mainly of three groups of prophecies. After an account of his call to the prophetical office (1-3:21), Ezekiel (1) utters words of denunciation against the Jews (3:22-24), warning them of the"}, {"id": "card_n_6cba4f6bc006", "title": "Easton: Pul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) An Assyrian king. It has been a question whether he was identical with Tiglath-pileser III. (q.v.), or was his predecessor. The weight of evidence is certainly in favour of their identity. Pul wa"}, {"id": "card_n_0667b6bec0dd", "title": "Easton: Jeroboam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Increase of the people. (1.) The son of Nebat (1 Kings 11:26-39), “an Ephrathite,” the first king of the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two years (B.C. 976-945). He was the son of a widow of "}, {"id": "card_n_eb9e0c7b9c12", "title": "Easton: Baasha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bravery, the third king of the separate kingdom of Israel, and founder of its second dynasty (1 Kings 15; 16; 2 Chr. 16:1-6). He was the son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar. The city of Tirzah he m"}, {"id": "card_n_2fb88ae06e59", "title": "Easton: Kir-haraseth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Built fortress, a city and fortress of Moab, the modern Kerak, a small town on the brow of a steep hill about 6 miles from Rabbath-Moab and 10 miles from the Dead Sea; called also Kir-haresh, Kir-hare"}, {"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_00be6889d7e2", "title": "Easton: Israel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name conferred on Jacob after the great prayer-struggle at Peniel (Gen. 32:28), because “as a prince he had power with God and prevailed.” (See JACOB.) This is the common name given to Jacob’s des"}, {"id": "card_n_c7251c03c56f", "title": "Easton: Hosea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Salvation, the son of Beeri, and author of the book of prophecies bearing his name. He belonged to the kingdom of Israel. “His Israelitish origin is attested by the peculiar, rough, Aramaizing diction"}, {"id": "card_n_9c73d1d54f13", "title": "Easton: Aholah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "She has her own tent, a name used by Ezekiel (23:4, 5, 36, 44) as a symbol of the idolatry of the kingdom of Israel. This kingdom is described as a lewdwoman, an adulteress, given up to the abominatio"}, {"id": "card_n_eeb3273afc89", "title": "Easton: Jezebel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians, and the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). This was the “first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by marriage with"}]}