{"query": "Easton: Law of Moses", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_7fd809c41510", "title": "Easton: Law of Moses", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Ezra 3:2). It is called by way of eminence simply “the Law” (Heb. Torah, Deut. 1:5; 4:8, 44; 17:18, 19; 27:3, 8). As a written "}, {"id": "card_n_8d4a34825837", "title": "Easton: Pentateuch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The five-fold volume, consisting of the first five books of the Old Testament. This word does not occur in Scripture, nor is it certainly known when the roll was thus divided into five portions Genesi"}, {"id": "card_n_146eb6567951", "title": "Easton: Elder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name frequently used in the Old Testament as denoting a person clothed with authority, and entitled to respect and reverence (Gen. 50:7). It also denoted a political office (Num. 22:7). The “elders "}, {"id": "card_n_e0accfb8fba2", "title": "Easton: Tithe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tenth of the produce of the earth consecrated and set apart for special purposes. The dedication of a tenth to God was recognized as a duty before the time of Moses. Abraham paid tithes to Melchized"}, {"id": "card_c_b86d11ec8fcf", "title": "Easton: Law of Moses references Law", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Law (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_5cf4150c037e", "title": "Easton: Law", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A rule of action. (1.) The Law of Nature is the will of God as to human conduct, founded on the moral difference of things, and discoverable by natural light (Rom. 1:20; 2:14, 15). This law binds all "}, {"id": "card_n_aabbe96cf183", "title": "Easton: Fast", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26-32. It is called “the fast” (Acts 27:9). The only other mention of a periodical fast in the Old Tes"}, {"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_01067474d2d0", "title": "Easton: Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered “Messiah” (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament. It denotes that he was ano"}, {"id": "card_n_7139724c819a", "title": "Easton: Jethro", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "His excellence, or gain, a prince or priest of Midian, who succeeded his father Reuel. Moses spent forty years after his exile from the Egyptian court as keeper of Jethro’s flocks. While the Israelite"}, {"id": "card_n_85674ba18765", "title": "Exodus 3", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.\n2. The LORD’s angel app"}, {"id": "card_n_cbfd1b6bddc9", "title": "Easton: Midianite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An Arabian tribe descended from Midian. They inhabited principally the desert north of the peninsula of Arabia. The peninsula of Sinai was the pasture-ground for their flocks. They were virtually the "}, {"id": "card_n_e820c6e0bc66", "title": "Easton: Hilkiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Portion of Jehovah. (1.) 1 Chr. 6:54. (2.) 1 Chr. 26:11. (3.) The father of Eliakim (2 Kings 18:18, 26, 37). (4.) The father of Gemariah (Jer. 29:3). (5.) The father of the prophet Jeremiah (1:1). (6."}, {"id": "card_n_8f3583948493", "title": "Easton: Divination", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of false prophets (Deut. 18:10, 14; Micah 3:6, 7, 11), of necromancers (1 Sam. 28:8), of the Philistine priests and diviners (1 Sam. 6:2), of Balaam (Josh. 13:22). Three kinds of divination are mentio"}, {"id": "card_n_d527b91db34d", "title": "Easton: Zelophehad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First-born, of the tribe of Manasseh, and of the family of Gilead; died in the wilderness. Having left no sons, his daughters, concerned lest their father’s name should be “done away from among his fa"}, {"id": "card_n_8b46004c8d35", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author of this book was beyond a doubt the Matthew, an apostle of our Lord, whose name it bears. He wrote the Gospel of Christ according to his own plans and aims, and from his own point of view, "}, {"id": "card_n_574a6200876d", "title": "Easton: Joshua", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is his help, or Jehovah the Saviour. The son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, the successor of Moses as the leader of Israel. He is called Jehoshua in Num. 13:16 (A.V.), and Jesus in Acts 7:45"}, {"id": "card_n_c4daf1711ed6", "title": "Easton: Genesis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The five books of Moses were collectively called the Pentateuch, a word of Greek origin meaning “the five-fold book.” The Jews called them the Torah, i.e., “the law.” It is probable that the division "}, {"id": "card_n_bec1027576f7", "title": "Easton: Kid", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The young of the goat. It was much used for food (Gen. 27:9; 38:17; Judg. 6:19; 14:6). The Mosaic law forbade to dress a kid in the milk of its dam, a law which is thrice repeated (Ex. 23:19; 34:26; D"}, {"id": "card_n_1aa07a7839ff", "title": "Easton: Avenger of blood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. goel, from verb gaal, “to be near of kin,” “to redeem”), the nearest relative of a murdered person. It was his right and duty to slay the murderer (2 Sam. 14:7, 11) if he found him outside of a "}]}