{"query": "Easton: Providence", "count": 17, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2cb8bbf620e3", "title": "Easton: Providence", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Literally means foresight, but is generally used to denote God’s preserving and governing all things by means of second causes (Ps. 18:35; 63:8; Acts 17:28; Col. 1:17; Heb. 1:3). God’s providence exte"}, {"id": "card_c_f95facca082e", "title": "Easton: Providence references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_035545831737", "title": "Easton: Providence cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 12:23; Job 23:13 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_301c88af3d30", "title": "Easton: Providence cites James", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites James 4:13 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_bd91beaf4333", "title": "Easton: Providence cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 1:53 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_a0fe7a3820f3", "title": "Easton: Providence cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 17:28; Acts 14:17; Acts 4:27; Acts 2:3; Acts 3:13 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_4486a0b1625b", "title": "Easton: Providence references Dan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Dan (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_fe0d952a8a14", "title": "Easton: Contentment", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A state of mind in which one’s desires are confined to his lot whatever it may be (1 Tim. 6:6; 2 Cor. 9:8). It is opposed to envy (James 3:16), avarice (Heb. 13:5), ambition (Prov. 13:10), anxiety (Ma"}, {"id": "card_n_de342130506b", "title": "Easton: Dispensation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. oikonomia, “management,” “economy”). (1.) The method or scheme according to which God carries out his purposes towards men is called a dispensation. There are usually reckoned three dispensations"}, {"id": "card_n_0761eddc6951", "title": "Easton: Bridle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Three Hebrew words are thus rendered in the Authorized Version. (1.) Heb. mahsom’ signifies a muzzle or halter or bridle, by which the rider governs his horse (Ps. 39:1). (2.) Me’theg, rendered also “"}, {"id": "card_n_ae723d9dc276", "title": "Easton: Beard", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The mode of wearing it was definitely prescribed to the Jews (Lev. 19:27; 21:5). Hence the import of Ezekiel’s (5:1-4) description of the “razor” i.e., the agents of an angry providence being used aga"}, {"id": "card_n_86a73c733c92", "title": "Easton: Chance", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 10:31). “It was not by chance that the priest came down by that road at that time, but by a specific arrangement and in exact fulfilment of a plan; not the plan of the priest, nor the plan of th"}, {"id": "card_n_2f9c2d26c46b", "title": "Easton: Prophecy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or prediction, was one of the functions of the prophet. It has been defined as a “miracle of knowledge, a declaration or description or representation of something future, beyond the power of human sa"}, {"id": "card_n_655b58f18042", "title": "Easton: Mediator", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who intervenes between two persons who are at variance, with a view to reconcile them. This word is not found in the Old Testament; but the idea it expresses is found in Job 9:33, in the word “day"}, {"id": "card_n_06be9fa50da1", "title": "Easton: Psalms", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The psalms are the production of various authors. “Only a portion of the Book of Psalms claims David as its author. Other inspired poets in successive generations added now one now another contributio"}, {"id": "card_n_1ea56ef49ecb", "title": "Easton: Abimelech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "My father a king, or father of a king, a common name of the Philistine kings, as “Pharaoh” was of the Egyptian kings. (1.) The Philistine king of Gerar in the time of Abraham (Gen. 20:1-18). By an int"}, {"id": "card_n_3c0550712d94", "title": "Easton: Eve", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Life; living, the name given by Adam to his wife (Gen. 3:20; 4:1). The account of her creation is given in Gen. 2:21, 22. The Creator, by declaring that it was not good for man to be alone, and by cre"}]}