{"query": "Easton: Solomon", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fe5173dafd38", "title": "Easton: Hiram", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "High-born. (1.) Generally “Huram,” one of the sons of Bela (1 Chr. 8:5). (2.) Also “Huram” and “Horam,” king of Tyre. He entered into an alliance with David, and assisted him in building his palace by"}, {"id": "card_n_cec34a6f1b1a", "title": "Easton: Israel, Kingdom of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(B.C. 975-B.C. 722). Soon after the death of Solomon, Ahijah’s prophecy (1 Kings 11:31-35) was fulfilled, and the kingdom was rent in twain. Rehoboam, the son and successor of Solomon, was scarcely se"}, {"id": "card_n_ec96176baf7f", "title": "Easton: Porch, Solomon’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A colonnade on the east of the temple, so called from a tradition that it was a relic of Solomon’s temple left standing after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. (Comp. 1 Kings 7:6.) The "}, {"id": "card_n_eae42d5ac273", "title": "Easton: Solomon, Song of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also, after the Vulgate, the “Canticles.” It is the “song of songs” (1:1), as being the finest and most precious of its kind; the noblest song, “das Hohelied,” as Luther calls it. The Solomonic"}, {"id": "card_n_110c6f39abfb", "title": "Easton: Cabul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "How little! as nothing. (1.) A town on the eastern border of Asher (Josh. 19:27), probably one of the towns given by Solomon to Hiram; the modern Kabul, some 8 miles east of Accho, on the very borders"}, {"id": "card_n_8396e8d48307", "title": "Easton: Nathan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Given. (1.) A prophet in the reigns of David and Solomon (2 Chr. 9:29). He is first spoken of in connection with the arrangements David made for the building of the temple (2 Sam. 7:2, 3, 17), and nex"}, {"id": "card_n_9ca93b6e7db6", "title": "Easton: Adonijah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "My Lord is Jehovah. (1.) The fourth son of David (2 Sam. 3:4). After the death of his elder brothers, Amnon and Absalom, he became heir-apparent to the throne. But Solomon, a younger brother, was pref"}, {"id": "card_n_f2876a283a4f", "title": "Easton: Solomon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David’s second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father on"}, {"id": "card_n_ff1eea14a476", "title": "Easton: Quarries", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The “Royal Quarries” (not found in Scripture) is the name given to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern hill, Bezetha, on which Jerusalem is built. Out of these mammoth caverns"}, {"id": "card_n_28fbf21abcaa", "title": "Easton: Ecclesiastes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Greek rendering of the Hebrew Koheleth, which means “Preacher.” The old and traditional view of the authorship of this book attributes it to Solomon. This view can be satisfactorily maintained, th"}, {"id": "card_n_4b4a9b9519b9", "title": "Easton: Temple, Solomon’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Before his death David had “with all his might” provided materials in great abundance for the building of the temple on the summit of Mount Moriah (1 Chr. 22:14; 29:4; 2 Chr. 3:1), on the east of the "}, {"id": "card_n_c20d100a8ef9", "title": "Easton: Pools of Solomon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to three large open cisterns at Etam, at the head of the Wady Urtas, having an average length of 400 feet by 220 in breadth, and 20 to 30 in depth. These pools derive their chief supply"}, {"id": "card_n_c35efc09c92d", "title": "Easton: Songs", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of Moses (Ex. 15; Num. 21:17; Deut. 32; Rev. 15:3), Deborah (Judg. 5), Hannah (1 Sam. 2), David (2 Sam. 22, and Psalms), Mary (Luke 1:46-55), Zacharias (Luke 1:68-79), the angels (Luke 2:13), Simeon ("}, {"id": "card_n_940101d72e93", "title": "Easton: Solomon’s Porch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12), a colonnade, or cloister probably, on the eastern side of the temple. It is not mentioned in connection with the first temple, but Josephus mentions a porch, so called, "}, {"id": "card_n_8f6978994471", "title": "Easton: Abishag", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Father of (i.e., “given to”) error, a young woman of Shunem, distinguished for her beauty. She was chosen to minister to David in his old age. She became his wife (1 Kings 1:3, 4, 15). After David’s d"}, {"id": "card_n_2dced3217f09", "title": "Easton: Bath-sheba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Daughter of the oath, or of seven, called also Bath-shu’a (1 Chr. 3:5), was the daughter of Eliam (2 Sam. 11:3) or Ammiel (1 Chr. 3:5), and wife of Uriah the Hittite. David committed adultery with her"}, {"id": "card_n_73f9865fc650", "title": "Easton: Yarn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Found only in 1 Kings 10:28, 2 Chr. 1:16. The Heb. word mikveh, i.e., “a stringing together,” so rendered, rather signifies a host, or company, or a string of horses. The Authorized Version has: “And "}, {"id": "card_n_7021e41a3c90", "title": "Easton: Host", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An entertainer (Rom. 16:23); a tavern-keeper, the keeper of a caravansary (Luke 10:35). In warfare, a troop or military force. This consisted at first only of infantry. Solomon afterwards added cavalr"}, {"id": "card_n_2ba35e0b0103", "title": "Easton: Zoheleth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The serpent-stone, a rocky plateau near the centre of the village of Siloam, and near the fountain of En-rogel, to which the women of the village resort for water (1 Kings 1:5-9). Here Adonijah (q.v.)"}, {"id": "card_n_44c514748548", "title": "Easton: Gezer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A precipice, an ancient royal Canaanitish city (Josh. 10:33; 12:12). It was allotted with its suburbs to the Kohathite Levites (21:21; 1 Chr. 6:67). It stood between the lower Beth-horon and the sea ("}]}