{"query": "Easton: Solemn meeting", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ea8d5a535544", "title": "Easton: Solemn meeting", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 1:13), the convocation on the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:36; Num. 29:35, R.V., “solemn assembly;” marg., “closing festival”). It is the name given also to the convocation he"}, {"id": "card_n_b9e78a502510", "title": "Easton: Sermon on the mount", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "After spending a night in solemn meditation and prayer in the lonely mountain-range to the west of the Lake of Galilee (Luke 6:12), on the following morning our Lord called to him his disciples, and f"}, {"id": "card_n_a2acded6ff36", "title": "Easton: Noadiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Meeting with the Lord. (1.) A Levite who returned from Babylon (Ezra 8:33). (2.) A false prophetess who assisted Tobiah and Sanballat against the Jews (Neh. 6:14). Being bribed by them, she tried to s"}, {"id": "card_n_716e70d8f1c7", "title": "Easton: Wave offerings", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Parts of peace-offerings were so called, because they were waved by the priests (Ex. 29:24, 26, 27; Lev. 7:20-34; 8:27; 9:21; 10:14, 15, etc.), in token of a solemn special presentation to God. They t"}, {"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_f658e3e5bc23", "title": "Easton: Adjuration", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A solemn appeal whereby one person imposes on another the obligation of speaking or acting as if under an oath (1 Sam. 14:24; Josh. 6:26; 1 Kings 22:16). We have in the New Testament a striking exampl"}, {"id": "card_n_60dc80d6f932", "title": "Easton: Oath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A solemn appeal to God, permitted on fitting occasions (Deut. 6:13; Jer. 4:2), in various forms (Gen. 16:5; 2 Sam. 12:5; Ruth 1:17; Hos. 4:15; Rom. 1:9), and taken in different ways (Gen. 14:22; 24:2;"}, {"id": "card_n_e5a2dbc040bc", "title": "Easton: Congregation, mount of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 14:13), has been supposed to refer to the place where God promised to meet with his people (Ex. 25:22; 29:42, 43) i.e., the mount of the Divine presence, Mount Zion. But here the king of Babylon"}, {"id": "card_n_9388fba09cfc", "title": "Easton: Congregation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kahal), the Hebrew people collectively as a holy community (Num. 15:15). Every circumcised Hebrew from twenty years old and upward was a member of the congregation. Strangers resident in the lan"}, {"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_f41baa987d0f", "title": "Easton: Tabernacle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A house or dwelling-place (Job 5:24; 18:6, etc.). (2.) A portable shrine (comp. Acts 19:24) containing the image of Moloch (Amos 5:26; marg. and R.V., “Siccuth”). (3.) The human body (2 Cor. 5:1,"}, {"id": "card_n_b53a6ffe5d4c", "title": "Easton: Zechariah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is renowned or remembered. (1.) A prophet of Judah, the eleventh of the twelve minor prophets. Like Ezekiel, he was of priestly extraction. He describes himself (1:1) as “the son of Berechiah."}, {"id": "card_n_122750d2f8fe", "title": "Easton: Gilgal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rolling. (1.) From the solemn transaction of the reading of the law in the valley of Shechem between Ebal and Gerizim the Israelites moved forward to Gilgal, and there made a permanent camp (Josh. 9:6"}, {"id": "card_n_83d8636f0551", "title": "Easton: Feast", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As a mark of hospitality (Gen. 19:3; 2 Sam. 3:20; 2 Kings 6:23); on occasions of domestic joy (Luke 15:23; Gen. 21:8); on birthdays (Gen. 40:20; Job 1:4; Matt. 14:6); and on the occasion of a marriage"}, {"id": "card_n_b18904748fad", "title": "Easton: Pashur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Release. (1.) The son of Immer (probably the same as Amariah, Neh. 10:3; 12:2), the head of one of the priestly courses, was “chief governor [Heb. paqid nagid, meaning “deputy governor”] of the temple"}, {"id": "card_n_574a6200876d", "title": "Easton: Joshua", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is his help, or Jehovah the Saviour. The son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, the successor of Moses as the leader of Israel. He is called Jehoshua in Num. 13:16 (A.V.), and Jesus in Acts 7:45"}, {"id": "card_n_96e5bd97e36d", "title": "Easton: Zacharias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A priest of the course of Abia, the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which the priests had been originally divided by David (1 Chr. 23:1-19). Only four of these courses or “families” of the"}, {"id": "card_n_29f94b123a26", "title": "Easton: Church", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Derived probably from the Greek kuriakon (i.e., “the Lord’s house”), which was used by ancient authors for the place of worship. In the New Testament it is the translation of the Greek word ecclesia, "}, {"id": "card_n_21b324ea833f", "title": "Easton: Wailing-place, Jews’", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A section of the western wall of the temple area, where the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail their desolate condition (Ps. 79:1, 4, 5). The stones in this part of the wall are of great s"}, {"id": "card_n_d89677671dda", "title": "Easton: Arabia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Arid, an extensive region in the south-west of Asia. It is bounded on the west by the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the east by the Persian Gulf and the Eup"}]}