{"query": "Easton: Prison", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b6dc67592e98", "title": "Easton: Prison", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first occasion on which we read of a prison is in the history of Joseph in Egypt. Then Potiphar, “Joseph’s master, took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bo"}, {"id": "card_n_20d1777b7eea", "title": "Easton: Dungeon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Acts 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jer. 38:6). To be shut up in, a puni"}, {"id": "card_c_1cd110a01718", "title": "Easton: Prison references Psalms", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Psalms. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_bc28b79e57b4", "title": "Easton: Prison references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_ba857fa74fcb", "title": "Easton: Prison cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 22:27 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_86e350328a9d", "title": "Easton: Prison cites 2 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 2 Kings 17:4 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_7bd27347805d", "title": "Easton: Prison cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 5:18 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_6fb24b62922f", "title": "Easton: Cage", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kelub’, Jer. 5:27, marg. “coop;” rendered “basket” in Amos 8:1), a basket of wicker-work in which birds were placed after being caught. In Rev. 18:2 it is the rendering of the Greek phulake, pro"}, {"id": "card_n_dfb5c4cc0e5e", "title": "Easton: Quaternion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A band of four soldiers. Peter was committed by Herod to the custody of four quaternions, i.e., one quaternion for each watch of the night (Acts 12:4). Thus every precaution was taken against his esca"}, {"id": "card_c_b445409f4e78", "title": "Easton: Prison 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_b896ebe6c62c", "title": "Easton: Prison references Paul", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Paul (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_6aa7b4db064a", "title": "Easton: Prison references Philippi", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Philippi (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_27a3cd535c16", "title": "Easton: Herodias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 14:3-11; Mark 6:17-28; Luke 3:19), the daughter of Aristobulus and Bernice. While residing at Rome with her husband Herod Philip I. and her daughter, Herod Antipas fell in with her during one o"}, {"id": "card_n_5b45f35a874d", "title": "Easton: Potiphar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dedicated to Ra; i.e., to the sun-god, the Egyptian to whom the Ishmaelites sold Joseph (Gen. 39:1). He was “captain of the guard”, i.e., chief, probably, of the state police, who, while they formed p"}, {"id": "card_n_8bbd2c031784", "title": "Easton: Earthquake", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned among the extraordinary phenomena of Palestine (Ps. 18:7; comp. Hab. 3:6; Nah. 1:5; Isa. 5:25). The first earthquake in Palestine of which we have any record happened in the reign of Ahab (1"}, {"id": "card_n_c51d9d30b6ec", "title": "Easton: Micaiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Who is like Jehovah?, the son of Imlah, a faithful prophet of Samaria (1 Kings 22:8-28). Three years after the great battle with Ben-hadad (20:29-34), Ahab proposed to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, that"}, {"id": "card_n_cdea1d48d627", "title": "Easton: Machaerus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Black Fortress, was built by Herod the Great in the gorge of Callirhoe, one of the wadies 9 miles east of the Dead Sea, as a frontier rampart against Arab marauders. John the Baptist was probably "}, {"id": "card_n_805840165576", "title": "Easton: Baruch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Blessed. (1.) The secretary of the prophet Jeremiah (32:12; 36:4). He was of the tribe of Judah (51:59). To him Jeremiah dictated his prophecies regarding the invasion of the Babylonians and the Capti"}, {"id": "card_n_98eacd96058f", "title": "Easton: Gaza", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also Azzah, which is its Hebrew name (Deut. 2:23; 1 Kings 4:24; Jer. 25:20), strong, a city on the Mediterranean shore, remarkable for its early importance as the chief centre of a great commer"}, {"id": "card_n_44db9ade6c2d", "title": "Easton: Mark", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The evangelist; “John whose surname was Mark” (Acts 12:12, 25). Mark (Marcus, Col. 4:10, etc.) was his Roman name, which gradually came to supersede his Jewish name John. He is called John in Acts 13:"}]}