{"query": "Easton: Pelethites", "count": 8, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a7894924629b", "title": "Easton: Pelethites", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned always along with the Cherethites, and only in the time of David. The word probably means “runners” or “couriers,” and may denote that while forming part of David’s bodyguard, they were also"}, {"id": "card_c_50577b664b13", "title": "Easton: Pelethites cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 1:38 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_8cbffd44c159", "title": "Easton: Cherethim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ezek. 25:16), more frequently Cherethites, the inhabitants of Southern Philistia, the Philistines (Zeph. 2:5). The Cherethites and the Pelethites were David’s life-guards (1 Sam. 30:14; 2 Sam. 8:18; "}, {"id": "card_c_66a32de2749e", "title": "Easton: Pelethites references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (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_n_21aa6e4621c8", "title": "Easton: Benaiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Built up by Jehovah. (1.) The son of Jehoiada, chief priest (1 Chr. 27:5). He was set by David over his body-guard of Cherethites and Pelethites (2 Sam. 8:18; 1 Kings 1:32; 1 Chr. 18:17). His exploits"}, {"id": "card_n_7c3d825d8576", "title": "Easton: Guard", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. tabbah (properly a “cook,” and in a secondary sense “executioner,” because this office fell to the lot of the cook in Eastern countries), the bodyguard of the kings of Egypt (Gen. 37:36) and"}, {"id": "card_n_720b8c854ff6", "title": "Easton: Army", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Israelites marched out of Egypt in military order (Ex. 13:18, “harnessed;” marg., “five in a rank”). Each tribe formed a battalion, with its own banner and leader (Num. 2:2; 10:14). In war the arm"}, {"id": "card_n_ccf0ca858c9d", "title": "Easton: Proselyte", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is used in the LXX. for “stranger” (1 Chr. 22:2), i.e., a comer to Palestine; a sojourner in the land (Ex. 12:48; 20:10; 22:21), and in the New Testament for a convert to Judaism. There were such conv"}]}