{"query": "Easton: Job, Book of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e1972a6f765f", "title": "Easton: Job, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A great diversity of opinion exists as to the authorship of this book. From internal evidence, such as the similarity of sentiment and language to those in the Psalms and Proverbs (see Ps. 88 and 89),"}, {"id": "card_n_05e4265f7048", "title": "Easton: Astronomy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrews were devout students of the wonders of the starry firmanent (Amos 5:8; Ps. 19). In the Book of Job, which is the oldest book of the Bible in all probability, the constellations are disting"}, {"id": "card_n_d37649c81c16", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author of this book was no doubt Nehemiah himself. There are portions of the book written in the first person (ch. 1-7; 12:27-47, and 13). But there are also portions of it in which Nehemiah is sp"}, {"id": "card_n_683b72cdbc78", "title": "Easton: Poetry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon, redempti"}, {"id": "card_n_915917bcd1fb", "title": "Easton: Revelation, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=The Apocalypse, the closing book and the only prophetical book of the New Testament canon. The author of this book was undoubtedly John the apostle. His name occurs four times in the book itself (1:1"}, {"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_38e4cd414e5d", "title": "Easton: Book", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word has a comprehensive meaning in Scripture. In the Old Testament it is the rendering of the Hebrew word sepher, which properly means a “writing,” and then a “volume” (Ex. 17:14; Deut. 28:58; 2"}, {"id": "card_n_734bcd21be45", "title": "Easton: Joshua, The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Contains a history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to that of Joshua. It consists of three parts: (1.) The history of the conquest of the land (1-12). (2.) The allotment of the land to the d"}, {"id": "card_n_addb6bb817e8", "title": "Easton: Proverbs, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A collection of moral and philosophical maxims of a wide range of subjects presented in a poetic form. This book sets forth the “philosophy of practical life. It is the sign to us that the Bible does "}, {"id": "card_n_ea0835f4fb1b", "title": "Easton: Jasher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Upright. “The Book of Jasher,” rendered in the LXX. “the Book of the Upright One,” by the Vulgate “the Book of Just Ones,” was probably a kind of national sacred song-book, a collection of songs in pr"}, {"id": "card_n_5a0d951f0365", "title": "Easton: Ezra, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the"}, {"id": "card_n_b0a399e44fbf", "title": "Easton: Esther, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The authorship of this book is unknown. It must have been obviously written after the death of Ahasuerus (the Xerxes of the Greeks), which took place B.C. 465. The minute and particular account also g"}, {"id": "card_n_2acf4e5828ab", "title": "Easton: Ruth The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was originally a part of the Book of Judges, but it now forms one of the twenty-four separate books of the Hebrew Bible. The history it contains refers to a period perhaps about one hundred and twenty"}, {"id": "card_n_fdff2a158d3f", "title": "Easton: Numbers, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew be-midbar, i.e., “in the wilderness.” In the LXX. version it is called “Numbers,” and this name is now the usual title of the book. It i"}, {"id": "card_n_d064b0d2110e", "title": "Easton: Shushan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A lily, the Susa of Greek and Roman writers, once the capital of Elam. It lay in the uplands of Susiana, on the east of the Tigris, about 150 miles to the north of the head of the Persian Gulf. It is "}, {"id": "card_n_e65b94c3605a", "title": "Easton: Job", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Persecuted, an Arabian patriarch who resided in the land of Uz (q.v.). While living in the midst of great prosperity, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a series of sore trials that fell upon him. Amid al"}, {"id": "card_n_29b06212e953", "title": "Easton: Judges, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is so called because it contains the history of the deliverance and government of Israel by the men who bore the title of the “judges.” The book of Ruth originally formed part of this book, but about "}, {"id": "card_n_418757093392", "title": "Easton: Elihu", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whose God is he. (1.) “The son of Barachel, a Buzite” (Job 32:2), one of Job’s friends. When the debate between Job and his friends is brought to a close, Elihu for the first time makes his appearance"}, {"id": "card_n_06e412fd6877", "title": "Easton: Micah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sixth in order of the so-called minor prophets. The superscription to this book states that the prophet exercised his office in the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. If we reckon from the begi"}, {"id": "card_n_23ddfa0652b0", "title": "Easton: Acts of the Apostles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament. The author styles it a “treatise” (1:1). It was early called “The Acts,” “The Gospel of the Holy Ghost,” and “Th"}]}