{"query": "Easton: Seventy weeks", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f723578df001", "title": "Easton: Seventy weeks", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A prophetic period mentioned in Dan. 9:24, and usually interpreted on the “year-day” theory, i.e., reckoning each day for a year. This period will thus represent 490 years. This is regarded as the per"}, {"id": "card_c_4ff0ec741264", "title": "Easton: Seventy weeks 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_c_03db46865660", "title": "Easton: Seventy weeks references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (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_1c38598f9374", "title": "Easton: Gabriel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Champion of God, used as a proper name to designate the angel who was sent to Daniel (8:16) to explain the vision of the ram and the he-goat, and to communicate the prediction of the seventy weeks (Da"}, {"id": "card_n_42e1b90f7387", "title": "Easton: Adonibezek", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lord of Bezek, a Canaanitish king who, having subdued seventy of the chiefs that were around him, made an attack against the armies of Judah and Simeon, but was defeated and brought as a captive to Je"}, {"id": "card_n_22287c2f7117", "title": "Easton: Seven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This number occurs frequently in Scripture, and in such connections as lead to the supposition that it has some typical meaning. On the seventh day God rested, and hallowed it (Gen. 2:2, 3). The divis"}, {"id": "card_n_146eb6567951", "title": "Easton: Elder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name frequently used in the Old Testament as denoting a person clothed with authority, and entitled to respect and reverence (Gen. 50:7). It also denoted a political office (Num. 22:7). The “elders "}, {"id": "card_n_a8b6a3000654", "title": "Easton: Week", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the beginning, time was divided into weeks, each consisting of six days of working and one of rest (Gen. 2:2, 3; 7:10; 8:10, 12; 29:28). The references to this division of days becomes afterwards"}, {"id": "card_n_6d19c0f81f66", "title": "Easton: Abel-mizraim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Meadow of Egypt, or mourning of Egypt, a place “beyond,” i.e., on the west of Jordan, at the “threshing-floor of Atad.” Here the Egyptians mourned seventy days for Jacob (Gen. 50:4-11). Its site is un"}, {"id": "card_n_e85205e36577", "title": "Easton: Naioth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Dwellings, the name given to the prophetical college established by Samuel near Ramah. It consisted of a cluster of separate dwellings, and hence its name. David took refuge here when he fled from Sau"}, {"id": "card_n_3e50197bfc30", "title": "Easton: Jether", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Surplus; excellence. (1.) Father-in-law of Moses (Ex. 4:18 marg.), called elsewhere Jethro (q.v.). (2.) The oldest of Gideon’s seventy sons (Judg. 8:20). (3.) The father of Amasa, David’s general (1 K"}, {"id": "card_n_9fc7daedfbf4", "title": "Easton: Merari", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sad; bitter, the youngest son of Levi, born before the descent of Jacob into Egypt, and one of the seventy who accompanied him thither (Gen. 46:11; Ex. 6:16). He became the head of one of the great di"}, {"id": "card_n_615dd6cca916", "title": "Easton: Convocation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A meeting of a religious character as distinguished from congregation, which was more general, dealing with political and legal matters. Hence it is called an “holy convocation.” Such convocations wer"}, {"id": "card_n_2b2214d01185", "title": "Easton: Agabus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “prophet,” probably one of the seventy disciples of Christ. He prophesied at Antioch of an approaching famine (Acts 11:27, 28). Many years afterwards he met Paul at Caesarea, and warned him of the b"}, {"id": "card_n_62e6a13e95a4", "title": "Easton: Selah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word frequently found in the Book of Psalms, and also in Hab. 3:9, 13, about seventy-four times in all in Scripture. Its meaning is doubtful. Some interpret it as meaning “silence” or “pause;” other"}, {"id": "card_n_e38dc005366a", "title": "Easton: Harvest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The season for gathering grain or fruit. On the 16th day of Abib (or April) a handful of ripe ears of corn was offered as a first-fruit before the Lord, and immediately after this the harvest commence"}, {"id": "card_n_72e03ea5bfc2", "title": "Easton: Festus, Porcius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The successor of Felix (A.D. 60) as procurator of Judea (Acts 24:27). A few weeks after he had entered on his office the case of Paul, then a prisoner at Caesarea, was reported to him. The “next day,”"}, {"id": "card_n_975638af6bad", "title": "Easton: Eldad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God has loved, one of the seventy elders whom Moses appointed (Num. 11:26, 27) to administer justice among the people. He, with Medad, prophesied in the camp instead of going with the rest to the"}, {"id": "card_n_a13975ce6129", "title": "Easton: Festivals, Religious", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were daily (Lev. 23), weekly, monthly, and yearly festivals, and great stress was laid on the regular observance of them in every particular (Num. 28:1-8; Ex. 29:38-42; Lev. 6:8-23; Ex. 30:7-9; "}, {"id": "card_n_feccd579c081", "title": "Easton: Agrippa II.", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Son of the foregoing, was born at Rome, A.D. 27. He was the brother of Bernice and Drusilla. The Emperor Claudius (A.D. 48) invested him with the office of superintendent of the Temple of Jerusalem, a"}]}