{"query": "Easton: Persecution", "count": 17, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2cac7e4c49d7", "title": "Easton: Persecution", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first great persecution for religious opinion of which we have any record was that which broke out against the worshippers of God among the Jews in the days of Ahab, when that king, at the instiga"}, {"id": "card_c_01debe6b4c36", "title": "Easton: Persecution references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_49305a29e332", "title": "Easton: Persecution cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 21:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_93a7951a73c5", "title": "Easton: Persecution cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 9:54 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_96abc193b398", "title": "Easton: Persecution cites James", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites James 4:11 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_ed76c69b386e", "title": "Easton: Persecution references Ahab", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Ahab (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_7bcc75b30d01", "title": "Easton: Persecution references Jehovah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jehovah (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_6ec4ac360cdc", "title": "Easton: Persecution 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_7f5cd373dcfe", "title": "Easton: Persecution references Jezebel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jezebel (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_a6a0538972a2", "title": "Easton: Derbe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A small town on the eastern part of the upland plain of Lycaonia, about 20 miles from Lystra. Paul passed through Derbe on his route from Cilicia to Iconium, on his second missionary journey (Acts 16:"}, {"id": "card_n_55c637befd94", "title": "Easton: Timothy, Second Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was probably written a year or so after the first, and from Rome, where Paul was for a second time a prisoner, and was sent to Timothy by the hands of Tychicus. In it he entreats Timothy to come to hi"}, {"id": "card_n_fc0b8133cce7", "title": "Easton: Lystra", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A town of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor, in a wild district and among a rude population. Here Paul preached the gospel after he had been driven by persecution from Iconium (Acts 14:2-7). Here also he healed"}, {"id": "card_n_7d9956a4576e", "title": "Easton: Philip", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lover of horses. (1.) One of the twelve apostles; a native of Bethsaida, “the city of Andrew and Peter” (John 1:44). He readily responded to the call of Jesus when first addressed to him (43), and for"}, {"id": "card_n_73971d3aa279", "title": "Easton: Peter, First Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle is addressed to “the strangers scattered abroad”, i.e., to the Jews of the Dispersion (the Diaspora). Its object is to confirm its readers in the doctrines they had been already taught. P"}, {"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_eeb3273afc89", "title": "Easton: Jezebel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians, and the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). This was the “first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by marriage with"}, {"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 "}]}