{"query": "Easton: Maccabees", "count": 11, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e3616f871091", "title": "Easton: Maccabees, Books of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were originally five books of the Maccabees. The first contains a history of the war of independence, commencing (B.C. 175) in a series of patriotic struggles against the tyranny of Antiochus Ep"}, {"id": "card_n_5f4892307928", "title": "Easton: Maccabees", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word does not occur in Scripture. It was the name given to the leaders of the national party among the Jews who suffered in the persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes, who succeeded to the Syrian "}, {"id": "card_c_9abdd234eaf1", "title": "Easton: Maccabees references Romans", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Romans. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_f9eacd1fd866", "title": "Easton: Maccabees references Egypt", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Egypt (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_eaba0bcf8e95", "title": "Easton: Maccabees references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (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_6299732705c4", "title": "Easton: Maccabees references Judas", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Judas (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_3667a80f1193", "title": "Easton: Maccabees, Books of the references Apocrypha", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Apocrypha (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_bfaecb3413ea", "title": "Easton: Maccabees, Books of the references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (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_f2fc8ec22344", "title": "Easton: Sanhedrim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "More correctly Sanhedrin (Gr. synedrion), meaning “a sitting together,” or a “council.” This word (rendered “council,” A.V.) is frequently used in the New Testament (Matt. 5:22; 26:59; Mark 15:1, etc."}, {"id": "card_n_b10c5206da6e", "title": "Easton: Gog", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A Reubenite (1 Chr. 5:4), the father of Shimei. (2.) The name of the leader of the hostile party described in Ezek. 38, 39, as coming from the “north country” and assailing the people of Israel t"}, {"id": "card_n_d80fbe8b0d63", "title": "Easton: Apocrypha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hidden, spurious, the name given to certain ancient books which found a place in the LXX. and Latin Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, and were appended to all the great translations made from the"}]}