{"query": "Easton: Mount of the valley", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ad13fee569a5", "title": "Easton: Tyropoeon Valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(i.e., “Valley of the Cheesemongers”), the name given by Josephus the historian to the valley or rugged ravine which in ancient times separated Mount Moriah from Mount Zion. This valley, now filled up"}, {"id": "card_n_06be62a24478", "title": "Easton: Elah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Terebinth or oak. (1.) Valley of, where the Israelites were encamped when David killed Goliath (1 Sam. 17:2, 19). It was near Shochoh of Judah and Azekah (17:1). It is the modern Wady es-Sunt, i.e., “"}, {"id": "card_n_0b9a1ec88036", "title": "Easton: Mount of the valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Josh. 13:19), a district in the east of Jordan, in the territory of Reuben. The “valley” here was probably the Ghor or valley of the Jordan, and hence the “mount” would be the hilly region in the nor"}, {"id": "card_n_58db624a34cd", "title": "Easton: Jehoshaphat, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Scripture only in Joel 3:2, 12. This is the name given in modern times to the valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, and the Kidron flows through it. Here Jehoshaphat overthrew"}, {"id": "card_n_773153fe2b52", "title": "Easton: Olves, Mount of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "So called from the olive trees with which its sides are clothed, is a mountain ridge on the east of Jerusalem (1 Kings 11:7; Ezek. 11:23; Zech. 14:4), from which it is separated by the valley of Kidro"}, {"id": "card_n_e06f3c060113", "title": "Easton: Hinnom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A deep, narrow ravine separating Mount Zion from the so-called “Hill of Evil Counsel.” It took its name from “some ancient hero, the son of Hinnom.” It is first mentioned in Josh. 15:8. It had been th"}, {"id": "card_n_10a91c5a7f9a", "title": "Easton: Valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. bik’ah, a “cleft” of the mountains (Deut. 8:7; 11:11; Ps. 104:8; Isa. 41:18); also a low plain bounded by mountains, as the plain of Lebanon at the foot of Hermon around the sources of the J"}, {"id": "card_n_ca7c5314c056", "title": "Easton: Siloam, Tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only Luke 13:4. The place here spoken of is the village now called Silwan, or Kefr Silwan, on the east of the valley of Kidron, and to the north-east of the pool. It stands on the west slope"}, {"id": "card_n_3f10a1bd0ed5", "title": "Easton: Gerizim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A mountain of Samaria, about 3,000 feet above the Mediterranean. It was on the left of the valley containing the ancient town of Shechem (q.v.), on the way to Jerusalem. It stood over against Mount Eb"}, {"id": "card_n_d72e3ece68be", "title": "Easton: Kedron", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The valley, now quite narrow, between the Mount of Olives and Mount Moriah. The upper part of it is called the Valley of Jehoshaphat. The LXX., in 1 Kings 15:13, translate “of the cedar.” The word mea"}, {"id": "card_n_d3b5f424303e", "title": "Easton: Esdraelon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Greek form of the Hebrew “Jezreel,” the name of the great plain (called by the natives Merj Ibn Amer; i.e., “the meadow of the son of Amer”) which stretches across Central Palestine from the Jorda"}, {"id": "card_c_84e0d467c6ef", "title": "Easton: Jehoshaphat, Valley of references Mount", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Mount (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_25e270b1d029", "title": "Easton: Amorites", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Highlanders, or hillmen, the name given to the descendants of one of the sons of Canaan (Gen. 14:7), called Amurra or Amurri in the Assyrian and Egyptian inscriptions. On the early Babylonian monument"}, {"id": "card_n_1273a1ccab11", "title": "Easton: Kidron", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "= Kedron = Cedron, turbid, the winter torrent which flows through the Valley of Jehoshaphat, on the eastern side of Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives. This valley is known in Scriptu"}, {"id": "card_n_b3d05fd094d6", "title": "Easton: David, City of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) David took from the Jebusites the fortress of Mount Zion. He “dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David” (1 Chr. 11:7). This was the name afterwards given to the castle and royal palace "}, {"id": "card_n_e5aea150facb", "title": "Easton: Zareth-shahar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The splendour of the dawn, a city “in the mount of the valley” (Josh. 13:19). It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, some"}, {"id": "card_n_8a6396c166bd", "title": "Easton: Galilee", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Circuit. Solomon rewarded Hiram for certain services rendered him by the gift of an upland plain among the mountains of Naphtali. Hiram was dissatisfied with the gift, and called it “the land of Cabul"}, {"id": "card_n_69941284339e", "title": "Easton: Beersheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Well of the oath, or well of seven, a well dug by Abraham, and so named because he and Abimelech here entered into a compact (Gen. 21:31). On re-opening it, Isaac gave it the same name (Gen. 26:31-33)"}, {"id": "card_n_552c0ef6ac76", "title": "Easton: Baca, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ps. 84:6; R.V., “valley of weeping,” marg., “or balsam trees”), probably a valley in some part of Palestine, or generally some one of the valleys through which pilgrims had to pass on their way to th"}, {"id": "card_n_e5a2dbc040bc", "title": "Easton: Congregation, mount of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 14:13), has been supposed to refer to the place where God promised to meet with his people (Ex. 25:22; 29:42, 43) i.e., the mount of the Divine presence, Mount Zion. But here the king of Babylon"}]}