{"query": "Easton: Ruth The Book of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2acf4e5828ab", "title": "Easton: Ruth The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was originally a part of the Book of Judges, but it now forms one of the twenty-four separate books of the Hebrew Bible. The history it contains refers to a period perhaps about one hundred and twenty"}, {"id": "card_n_29b06212e953", "title": "Easton: Judges, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is so called because it contains the history of the deliverance and government of Israel by the men who bore the title of the “judges.” The book of Ruth originally formed part of this book, but about "}, {"id": "card_n_dd81cb3cf665", "title": "Easton: Ruth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose father, Elimelech, had settled in the land of Moab. On the death of Elimelech and Mahlon, Naomi came with Ruth, her daughter-in-law, who refused to lea"}, {"id": "card_n_d37649c81c16", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author of this book was no doubt Nehemiah himself. There are portions of the book written in the first person (ch. 1-7; 12:27-47, and 13). But there are also portions of it in which Nehemiah is sp"}, {"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_3f25971a39e2", "title": "Easton: Chronicles, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., “Acts of the Days.” This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version “Chronicon,” and hence "}, {"id": "card_n_915917bcd1fb", "title": "Easton: Revelation, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=The Apocalypse, the closing book and the only prophetical book of the New Testament canon. The author of this book was undoubtedly John the apostle. His name occurs four times in the book itself (1:1"}, {"id": "card_n_addb6bb817e8", "title": "Easton: Proverbs, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A collection of moral and philosophical maxims of a wide range of subjects presented in a poetic form. This book sets forth the “philosophy of practical life. It is the sign to us that the Bible does "}, {"id": "card_n_5a0d951f0365", "title": "Easton: Ezra, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the"}, {"id": "card_n_fdff2a158d3f", "title": "Easton: Numbers, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew be-midbar, i.e., “in the wilderness.” In the LXX. version it is called “Numbers,” and this name is now the usual title of the book. It i"}, {"id": "card_n_ea0835f4fb1b", "title": "Easton: Jasher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Upright. “The Book of Jasher,” rendered in the LXX. “the Book of the Upright One,” by the Vulgate “the Book of Just Ones,” was probably a kind of national sacred song-book, a collection of songs in pr"}, {"id": "card_n_b0a399e44fbf", "title": "Easton: Esther, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The authorship of this book is unknown. It must have been obviously written after the death of Ahasuerus (the Xerxes of the Greeks), which took place B.C. 465. The minute and particular account also g"}, {"id": "card_n_23ddfa0652b0", "title": "Easton: Acts of the Apostles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament. The author styles it a “treatise” (1:1). It was early called “The Acts,” “The Gospel of the Holy Ghost,” and “Th"}, {"id": "card_n_d064b0d2110e", "title": "Easton: Shushan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A lily, the Susa of Greek and Roman writers, once the capital of Elam. It lay in the uplands of Susiana, on the east of the Tigris, about 150 miles to the north of the head of the Persian Gulf. It is "}, {"id": "card_n_048bd5e3c62d", "title": "Easton: Samuel, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The LXX. translators regarded the books of Samuel and of Kings as forming one continuous history, which they divided into four books, which they called “Books of the Kingdom.” The Vulgate version foll"}, {"id": "card_n_06e412fd6877", "title": "Easton: Micah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sixth in order of the so-called minor prophets. The superscription to this book states that the prophet exercised his office in the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. If we reckon from the begi"}, {"id": "card_n_422813a1fbea", "title": "Easton: Moab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot (Gen. 19:37), of incestuous birth. (2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam. 8"}, {"id": "card_n_e1972a6f765f", "title": "Easton: Job, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A great diversity of opinion exists as to the authorship of this book. From internal evidence, such as the similarity of sentiment and language to those in the Psalms and Proverbs (see Ps. 88 and 89),"}, {"id": "card_n_8d4a34825837", "title": "Easton: Pentateuch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The five-fold volume, consisting of the first five books of the Old Testament. This word does not occur in Scripture, nor is it certainly known when the roll was thus divided into five portions Genesi"}, {"id": "card_n_058570f8c25e", "title": "Easton: Obadiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists of one chapter, “concerning Edom,” its impending doom (1:1-16), and the restoration of Israel (1:17-21). This is the shortest book of the Old Testament. There are on record the account of fou"}]}