{"query": "Easton: Reuben, Tribe of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_32cb09b0f521", "title": "Easton: Reuben, Tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At the Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards (Num. 1:20, 21), and at the close of the wilderness wanderings they numbered only 43,730 (26:7). This tribe united with tha"}, {"id": "card_c_06d469ab2582", "title": "Easton: Reuben, Tribe of references Reuben", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Reuben (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_01852b1c1d1c", "title": "Easton: Simeon, The tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was “divided and scattered” according to the prediction in Gen. 49:5-7. They gradually dwindled in number, and sank into a position of insignificance among the other tribes. They decreased in the wild"}, {"id": "card_c_340f8227c0e1", "title": "Easton: Simeon, The tribe of references Reuben", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Reuben (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_83371763e2c1", "title": "Easton: Gad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fortune; luck. (1.) Jacob’s seventh son, by Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, and the brother of Asher (Gen. 30:11-13; 46:16, 18). In the Authorized Version of 30:11 the words, “A troop cometh: and she called,"}, {"id": "card_n_f47042634e52", "title": "Easton: Manasseh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Who makes to forget. “God hath made me forget” (Heb. nashshani), Gen. 41:51. (1.) The elder of the two sons of Joseph. He and his brother Ephraim were afterwards adopted by Jacob as his own sons (48:1"}, {"id": "card_n_04f8c34dd746", "title": "Easton: Jabbok", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pouring out, or a wrestling, one of the streams on the east of Jordan, into which it falls about midway between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, or about 45 miles below the Sea of Galilee. It ri"}, {"id": "card_n_505139b1b9ab", "title": "Easton: Naphtali, Tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On this tribe Jacob pronounced the patriarchal blessing, “Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words” (Gen. 49:21). It was intended thus to set forth under poetic imagery the future characte"}, {"id": "card_n_c42ad4111361", "title": "Easton: Ephraim, The tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Took precedence over that of Manasseh by virtue of Jacob’s blessing (Gen. 41:52; 48:1). The descendants of Joseph formed two of the tribes of Israel, whereas each of the other sons of Jacob was the fo"}, {"id": "card_n_10c1d0425f60", "title": "Easton: Ed", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Witness, a word not found in the original Hebrew, nor in the LXX. and Vulgate, but added by the translators in the Authorized Version, also in the Revised Version, of Josh. 22:34. The words are litera"}, {"id": "card_n_3f0a9102027b", "title": "Easton: Judah, Tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Judah and his three surviving sons went down with Jacob into Egypt (Gen. 46:12; Ex. 1:2). At the time of the Exodus, when we meet with the family of Judah again, they have increased to the number of 7"}, {"id": "card_n_3f10a1bd0ed5", "title": "Easton: Gerizim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A mountain of Samaria, about 3,000 feet above the Mediterranean. It was on the left of the valley containing the ancient town of Shechem (q.v.), on the way to Jerusalem. It stood over against Mount Eb"}, {"id": "card_n_ca2aede43330", "title": "Easton: Medeba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Waters of quiet, an ancient Moabite town (Num. 21:30). It was assigned to the tribe of Reuben (Josh. 13:16). Here was fought the great battle in which Joab defeated the Ammonites and their allies (1 C"}, {"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_45636819ef17", "title": "Easton: Levite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A descendant of the tribe of Levi (Ex. 6:25; Lev. 25:32; Num. 35:2; Josh. 21:3, 41). This name is, however, generally used as the title of that portion of the tribe which was set apart for the subordi"}, {"id": "card_n_229b0241062e", "title": "Easton: Judah, Kingdom of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When the disruption took place at Shechem, at first only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David. But very soon after the tribe of Benjamin joined the tribe of Judah, and Jerusalem became the c"}, {"id": "card_n_f1e16ac15376", "title": "Easton: Abdon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Servile. (1.) The son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, the tenth judge of Israel (Judg. 12:13-15). He is probably the Bedan of 1 Sam. 12:11. (2.) The first-born of Gibeon of the tribe of Benjamin (1 Chr. 8:3"}, {"id": "card_n_c7045cda2002", "title": "Easton: Jabesh-Gilead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A town on the east of Jordan, on the top of one of the green hills of Gilead, within the limits of the half tribe of Manasseh, and in full view of Beth-shan. It is first mentioned in connection with t"}, {"id": "card_c_03b1ee8d6445", "title": "Easton: Refuge, Cities of references Reuben", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Reuben (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_fd7328bd9476", "title": "Easton: Mount of the valley references Reuben", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Reuben (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}]}