{"query": "Easton: Lebanon", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_872b89e55a65", "title": "Easton: Lebanon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "White, “the white mountain of Syria,” is the loftiest and most celebrated mountain range in Syria. It is a branch running southward from the Caucasus, and at its lower end forking into two parallel ra"}, {"id": "card_n_8b980dce7227", "title": "Easton: Cedar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. e’rez, Gr. kedros, Lat. cedrus), a tree very frequently mentioned in Scripture. It was stately (Ezek. 31:3-5), long-branched (Ps. 80:10; 92:12; Ezek. 31:6-9), odoriferous (Cant. 4:11; Hos. 14:6)"}, {"id": "card_n_19006cf8f9e2", "title": "Easton: Forest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ya’ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer. 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of Ep"}, {"id": "card_n_5736dece9e4b", "title": "Easton: Mizar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Smallness, a summit on the eastern ridge of Lebanon, near which David lay after escaping from Absalom (Ps. 42:6). It may, perhaps, be the present Jebel Ajlun, thus named, “the little”, in contrast wit"}, {"id": "card_n_eee82fb00777", "title": "Easton: Mount", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Palestine is a hilly country (Deut. 3:25; 11:11; Ezek. 34:13). West of Jordan the mountains stretch from Lebanon far down into Galilee, terminating in Carmel. The isolated peak of Tabor rises from the"}, {"id": "card_c_804e4a692b14", "title": "Easton: Lebanon cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 14:9 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_822f090df841", "title": "Easton: Lebanon cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 8:65; 1 Kings 5:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_59e4420527f4", "title": "Easton: Mearah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A cave, a place in the northern boundary of Palestine (Josh. 13:4). This may be the cave of Jezzin in Lebanon, 10 miles east of Sidon, on the Damascus road; or probably, as others think, Mogheirizeh, "}, {"id": "card_n_7a2b1eac9e55", "title": "Easton: Hethlon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wrapped up, a place on the north border of Palestine. The “way of Hethlon” (Ezek. 47:15; 48:1) is probably the pass at the end of Lebanon from the Mediterranean to the great plain of Hamath (q.v.), or"}, {"id": "card_n_5e11a6984969", "title": "Easton: Baal-hermon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lord of Hermon. (1.) A city near Mount Hermon inhabited by the Ephraimites (1 Chr. 5:23). Probably identical with Baal-gad (Josh. 11:17). (2.) A mountain east of Lebanon (Judg. 3:3). Probably it may b"}, {"id": "card_n_f6014b451c59", "title": "Easton: Zobah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Aram-Zobah, (Ps. 60, title), a Syrian province or kingdom to the south of Coele-Syria, and extending from the eastern slopes of Lebanon north and east toward the Euphrates. Saul and David had war wit"}, {"id": "card_n_9c80d89a8dd7", "title": "Easton: Towers", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of Babel (Gen. 11:4), Edar (Gen. 35:21), Penuel (Judg. 8:9, 17), Shechem (9:46), David (Cant. 4:4), Lebanon (7:4), Syene (Ezek. 29:10), Hananeel (Zech. 14:10), Siloam (Luke 13:4). There were several t"}, {"id": "card_n_bdfd876b5456", "title": "Easton: Levy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Kings 4:6, R.V.; 5:13), forced service. The service of tributaries was often thus exacted by kings. Solomon raised a “great levy” of 30,000 men, about two per cent. of the population, to work for h"}, {"id": "card_n_03f8844b45bb", "title": "Easton: Zemarite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The designation of one of the Phoenician tribes (Gen. 10:18) who inhabited the town of Sumra, at the western base of the Lebanon range. In the Amarna tablets (B.C. 1400) Zemar, or Zumur, was one of th"}, {"id": "card_n_60cf960caa37", "title": "Easton: Abilene", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A plain, a district lying on the east slope of the Anti-Lebanon range; so called from its chief town, Abila (Luke 3:1), which stood in the Suk Wady Barada, between Heliopolis (Baalbec) and Damascus, 3"}, {"id": "card_c_4fa8179a29cc", "title": "Easton: Lebanon references Galilee", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Galilee (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_c_0fcf47588c72", "title": "Easton: Lebanon references Hamath", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Hamath (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_c_37e0a6af3953", "title": "Easton: Lebanon references Hermon", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Hermon (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_c_1792c9630930", "title": "Easton: Lebanon references Jordan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jordan (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_c_066b7d8bb5b6", "title": "Easton: Lebanon references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}]}