{"query": "Easton: Refuge, Cities of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4fdf3cc0a40c", "title": "Easton: City", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The earliest mention of city-building is that of Enoch, which was built by Cain (Gen. 4:17). After the confusion of tongues, the descendants of Nimrod founded several cities (10:10-12). Next, we have "}, {"id": "card_n_1aa07a7839ff", "title": "Easton: Avenger of blood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. goel, from verb gaal, “to be near of kin,” “to redeem”), the nearest relative of a murdered person. It was his right and duty to slay the murderer (2 Sam. 14:7, 11) if he found him outside of a "}, {"id": "card_n_4946cbc5bd57", "title": "Easton: Refuge, Cities of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Were six in number (Num. 35). 1. On the west of Jordan were (1) Kadesh, in Naphtali; (2) Shechem, in Mount Ephraim; (3) Hebron, in Judah. 2. On the east of Jordan were, (1) Golan, in Bashan; (2) Ramot"}, {"id": "card_n_734bcd21be45", "title": "Easton: Joshua, The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Contains a history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to that of Joshua. It consists of three parts: (1.) The history of the conquest of the land (1-12). (2.) The allotment of the land to the d"}, {"id": "card_n_6bd16e73d103", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were in Palestine (1) cities, (2) unwalled villages, and (3) villages with castles or towers (1 Chr. 27:25). Cities, so called, had walls, and were thus fenced. The fortifications consisted of o"}, {"id": "card_n_b974f3b647ea", "title": "Easton: Kirjathaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Two cities; a double city. (1.) A city of refuge in Naphtali (1 Chr. 6:76). (2.) A town on the east of Jordan (Gen. 14:5; Deut. 2:9, 10). It was assigned to the tribe of Reuben (Num. 32:37). In the ti"}, {"id": "card_n_8dfa0797559c", "title": "Easton: Siddim, Vale of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Valley of the broad plains, “which is the salt sea” (Gen. 14:3, 8, 10), between Engedi and the cities of the plain, at the south end of the Dead Sea. It was “full of slime-pits” (R.V., “bitumen pits”)"}, {"id": "card_n_86456aa1af58", "title": "Easton: Bashan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Light soil, first mentioned in Gen. 14:5, where it is said that Chedorlaomer and his confederates “smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth,” where Og the king of Bashan had his residence. At the time of Israel"}, {"id": "card_n_e89b44dd68dc", "title": "Easton: Anathoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name of one of the cities of refuge, in the tribe of Benjamin (Josh. 21:18). The Jews, as a rule, did not change the names of the towns they found in Palestine; hence this town may be regarded as "}, {"id": "card_n_475b8a5ff733", "title": "Easton: Ramoth-gilead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heights of Gilead, a city of refuge on the east of Jordan; called “Ramoth in Gilead” (Deut. 4:43; Josh. 20:8; 21:38). Here Ahab, who joined Jehoshaphat in an endeavour to rescue it from the hands of t"}, {"id": "card_n_43105d82f21d", "title": "Easton: Kedesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sanctuary. (1.) A place in the extreme south of Judah (Josh. 15:23). Probably the same as Kadesh-barnea (q.v.). (2.) A city of Issachar (1 Chr. 6:72). Possibly Tell Abu Kadeis, near Lejjun. (3.) A “fe"}, {"id": "card_n_028d70cd1e95", "title": "Easton: Bezer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ore of gold or silver. (1.) A city of the Reubenites; one of the three cities of refuge on the east of Jordan (Deut. 4: 43; Josh. 20:8). It has been identified with the modern ruined village of Burazi"}, {"id": "card_n_9cf324329097", "title": "Easton: Golan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Exile, a city of Bashan (Deut. 4:43), one of the three cities of refuge east of Jordan, about 12 miles north-east of the Sea of Galilee (Josh. 20:8). There are no further notices of it in Scripture. I"}, {"id": "card_n_e2339f328782", "title": "Easton: Anakim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The descendants of Anak (Josh. 11:21; Num. 13:33; Deut. 9:2). They dwelt in the south of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Hebron (Gen. 23:2; Josh. 15:13). In the days of Abraham (Gen. 14:5, 6) they "}, {"id": "card_n_be62531a8449", "title": "Easton: Decapolis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ten cities=deka, ten, and polis, a city, a district on the east and south-east of the Sea of Galilee containing “ten cities,” which were chiefly inhabited by Greeks. It included a portion of Bashan an"}, {"id": "card_n_f604893e0ec3", "title": "Easton: Gaulanitis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name derived from “Golan” (q.v.), one of the cities of refuge in the territory of Manasseh (Josh. 20:8; 21:27; Deut. 4:43). This was one of the provinces ruled by Herod Antipas. It lay to the east o"}, {"id": "card_n_47f446ed7a6e", "title": "Easton: Kartan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Double city, a town of Naphali, assigned to the Gershonite Levites, and one of the cities of refuge (Josh. 21:32). It was probably near the north-western shore of the Sea of Tiberias, identical with t"}, {"id": "card_n_fbfa0cbf408e", "title": "Easton: Gate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of cities, as of Jerusalem (Jer. 37:13; Neh. 1:3; 2:3; 3:3), of Sodom (Gen. 19:1), of Gaza (Judg. 16:3). (2.) Of royal palaces (Neh. 2:8). (3.) Of the temple of Solomon (1 Kings 6:34, 35; 2 Kings"}, {"id": "card_n_bfcceeae1179", "title": "Easton: Pithom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Egyptian, Pa-Tum, “house of Tum,” the sun-god, one of the “treasure” cities built for Pharaoh Rameses II. by the Israelites (Ex. 1:11). It was probably the Patumos of the Greek historian Herodotus. It"}, {"id": "card_n_c492fae87fb3", "title": "Easton: Makkedah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Herdsman’s place, one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:16), near which was a cave where the five kings who had confederated against Israel sought refuge (10:10-29). They were put to dea"}]}