{"query": "Easton: Jezreel, Valley of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_10a91c5a7f9a", "title": "Easton: Valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. bik’ah, a “cleft” of the mountains (Deut. 8:7; 11:11; Ps. 104:8; Isa. 41:18); also a low plain bounded by mountains, as the plain of Lebanon at the foot of Hermon around the sources of the J"}, {"id": "card_n_aa37a2dcb7e5", "title": "Easton: Jezreel, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lying on the northern side of the city, between the ridges of Gilboa and Moreh, an offshoot of Esdraelon, running east to the Jordan (Josh. 17:16; Judg. 6:33; Hos. 1:5). It was the scene of the signal"}, {"id": "card_c_488b5c17d9d6", "title": "Easton: Jezreel, Valley of references Jezreel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jezreel (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_b0715b773cb6", "title": "Easton: Jezreel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God scatters. (1.) A town of Issachar (Josh. 19:18), where the kings of Israel often resided (1 Kings 18:45; 21:1; 2 Kings 9:30). Here Elijah met Ahab, Jehu, and Bidkar; and here Jehu executed his dre"}, {"id": "card_n_07b89f961a31", "title": "Easton: Jezreel, Fountain of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Where Saul encamped before the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 29:1). In the valley under Zerin there are two considerable springs, one of which, perhaps that here referred to, “flows from under a sort of ca"}, {"id": "card_n_d3b5f424303e", "title": "Easton: Esdraelon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Greek form of the Hebrew “Jezreel,” the name of the great plain (called by the natives Merj Ibn Amer; i.e., “the meadow of the son of Amer”) which stretches across Central Palestine from the Jorda"}, {"id": "card_n_06be62a24478", "title": "Easton: Elah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Terebinth or oak. (1.) Valley of, where the Israelites were encamped when David killed Goliath (1 Sam. 17:2, 19). It was near Shochoh of Judah and Azekah (17:1). It is the modern Wady es-Sunt, i.e., “"}, {"id": "card_n_ad13fee569a5", "title": "Easton: Tyropoeon Valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(i.e., “Valley of the Cheesemongers”), the name given by Josephus the historian to the valley or rugged ravine which in ancient times separated Mount Moriah from Mount Zion. This valley, now filled up"}, {"id": "card_n_58db624a34cd", "title": "Easton: Jehoshaphat, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Scripture only in Joel 3:2, 12. This is the name given in modern times to the valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, and the Kidron flows through it. Here Jehoshaphat overthrew"}, {"id": "card_n_552c0ef6ac76", "title": "Easton: Baca, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ps. 84:6; R.V., “valley of weeping,” marg., “or balsam trees”), probably a valley in some part of Palestine, or generally some one of the valleys through which pilgrims had to pass on their way to th"}, {"id": "card_c_eaa88403eaaa", "title": "Easton: Valley references Jezreel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jezreel (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_3a411d985152", "title": "Easton: Gilboa", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua’, memorable as the scene of Saul’s disastrous defeat by the Philistines. Here also his three sons were slain, and he himself died by his own hand (1 S"}, {"id": "card_n_8a6396c166bd", "title": "Easton: Galilee", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Circuit. Solomon rewarded Hiram for certain services rendered him by the gift of an upland plain among the mountains of Naphtali. Hiram was dissatisfied with the gift, and called it “the land of Cabul"}, {"id": "card_n_eaba1a8b2918", "title": "Easton: Achor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Trouble, a valley near Jericho, so called in consequence of the trouble which the sin of Achan caused Israel (Josh. 7:24, 26). The expression “valley of Achor” probably became proverbial for that whic"}, {"id": "card_c_d47e9fefb78b", "title": "Easton: Moreh, the Hill of references Jezreel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jezreel (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_0b9a1ec88036", "title": "Easton: Mount of the valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Josh. 13:19), a district in the east of Jordan, in the territory of Reuben. The “valley” here was probably the Ghor or valley of the Jordan, and hence the “mount” would be the hilly region in the nor"}, {"id": "card_n_8fe39337e3b8", "title": "Easton: Michmash", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something hidden, a town of Benjamin (Ezra 2:27), east of Bethel and south of Migron, on the road to Jerusalem (Isa. 10:28). It lay on the line of march of an invading army from the north, on the nort"}, {"id": "card_n_e06f3c060113", "title": "Easton: Hinnom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A deep, narrow ravine separating Mount Zion from the so-called “Hill of Evil Counsel.” It took its name from “some ancient hero, the son of Hinnom.” It is first mentioned in Josh. 15:8. It had been th"}, {"id": "card_n_ca7c5314c056", "title": "Easton: Siloam, Tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only Luke 13:4. The place here spoken of is the village now called Silwan, or Kefr Silwan, on the east of the valley of Kidron, and to the north-east of the pool. It stands on the west slope"}, {"id": "card_n_4e442881b096", "title": "Easton: Ajalon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "And Aij’alon, place of deer. (1.) A town and valley originally assigned to the tribe of Dan, from which, however, they could not drive the Amorites (Judg. 1:35). It was one of the Levitical cities giv"}]}