{"query": "Easton: King", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_11fcdbb60369", "title": "Easton: King", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is in Scripture very generally used to denote one invested with authority, whether extensive or limited. There were thirty-one kings in Canaan (Josh. 12:9, 24), whom Joshua subdued. Adonibezek subdued"}, {"id": "card_n_ff60f2d34629", "title": "Easton: Maaseiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The work of Jehovah. (1.) One of the Levites whom David appointed as porter for the ark (1 Chr. 15:18, 20). (2.) One of the “captains of hundreds” associated with Jehoiada in restoring king Jehoash to"}, {"id": "card_n_1c9424be10de", "title": "Easton: Jehoiakim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He whom Jehovah has set up, the second son of Josiah, and eighteenth king of Judah, which he ruled over for eleven years (B.C. 610-599). His original name was Eliakim (q.v.). On the death of his fathe"}, {"id": "card_n_a56fbe9b33f0", "title": "Easton: Necho II", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An Egyptian king, the son and successor of Psammetichus (B.C. 610-594), the contemporary of Josiah, king of Judah. For some reason he proclaimed war against the king of Assyria. He led forth a powerfu"}, {"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_cc78c33b4617", "title": "Easton: Ebed-melech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A servant of the king; probably an official title, an Ethiopian, “one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house;” i.e., in the palace of Zedekiah, king of Judah. He interceded with the king in Jere"}, {"id": "card_n_5e1dc6d0bfeb", "title": "Easton: Ben-hadad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The standing title of the Syrian kings, meaning “the son of Hadad.” (See HADADEZER.) (1.) The king of Syria whom Asa, king of Judah, employed to invade Israel (1 Kings 15:18). (2.) Son of the precedin"}, {"id": "card_n_040e3835ce7a", "title": "Easton: Ahaz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Possessor. (1.) A grandson of Jonathan (1 Chr. 8:35; 9:42). (2.) The son and successor of Jotham, king of Judah (2 Kings 16; Isa. 7-9; 2 Chr. 28). He gave himself up to a life of wickedness and idolat"}, {"id": "card_n_b0e6a21fe450", "title": "Easton: Jehoram", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah-exalted. (1.) Son of Toi, king of Hamath, sent by his father to congratulate David on the occasion of his victory over Hadadezer (2 Sam. 8:10). (2.) A Levite of the family of Gershom (1 Chr. 2"}, {"id": "card_n_a7883bf5ce3a", "title": "Easton: Jehu", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is he. (1.) The son of Obed, and father of Azariah (1 Chr. 2:38). (2.) One of the Benjamite slingers that joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:3). (3.) The son of Hanani, a prophet of Judah (1 Ki"}, {"id": "card_n_938df6b2d8d5", "title": "Easton: Ahaziah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Held by Jehovah. (1.) The son and successor of Ahab. He followed the counsels of his mother Jezebel, and imitated in wickedness the ways of his father. In his reign the Moabites revolted from under hi"}, {"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_bf06f027e6db", "title": "Easton: Adoni-zedec", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lord of justice or righteousness, was king in Jerusalem at the time when the Israelites invaded Palestine (Josh. 10:1, 3). He formed a confederacy with the other Canaanitish kings against the Israelit"}, {"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_1ea56ef49ecb", "title": "Easton: Abimelech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "My father a king, or father of a king, a common name of the Philistine kings, as “Pharaoh” was of the Egyptian kings. (1.) The Philistine king of Gerar in the time of Abraham (Gen. 20:1-18). By an int"}, {"id": "card_n_aefd11433a6f", "title": "Easton: Mordecai", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. It has been alleged that he was carried into captivity with Jeconiah, and hence that he must have been at least one hundred and twenty-nine years old in the "}, {"id": "card_n_fe7db402704e", "title": "Easton: Dale, the king’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name of a valley, the alternative for “the valley of Shaveh” (q.v.), near the Dead Sea, where the king of Sodom met Abraham (Gen. 14:17). Some have identified it with the southern part of the vall"}, {"id": "card_n_71a3251b2048", "title": "Easton: Joash", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom Jehovah bestowed. (1.) A contracted form of Jehoash, the father of Gideon (Judg. 6:11, 29; 8:13, 29, 32). (2.) One of the Benjamite archers who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:3). (3.) One of K"}, {"id": "card_n_e580d83ec57c", "title": "Easton: Hadad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Adod, brave(?), the name of a Syrian god. (1.) An Edomite king who defeated the Midianites (Gen. 36:35; 1 Chr. 1:46). (2.) Another Edomite king (1 Chr. 1:50, 51), called also Hadar (Gen. 36:39; 1 Chr."}, {"id": "card_n_01a6eb80ed99", "title": "Easton: Urijah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The lord is my light. (1.) A high priest in the time of Ahaz (2 Kings 16:10-16), at whose bidding he constructed an idolatrous altar like one the king had seen at Damascus, to be set up instead of the"}]}