{"query": "Easton: Sword", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_dba47df6ef26", "title": "Easton: Sword", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the Hebrew was pointed, sometimes two-edged, was worn in a sheath, and suspended from the girdle (Ex. 32:27; 1 Sam. 31:4; 1 Chr. 21:27; Ps. 149:6: Prov. 5:4; Ezek. 16:40; 21:3-5). It is a symbol of"}, {"id": "card_n_ed96d3cb2c75", "title": "Devotional: Parable: The Sword in the Fire", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A piece of steel may be worth $100. A sword, $1,000. The sword of a master, $10,000. But the sword wielded by the Conqueror to crush Satan is priceless. Be that sword."}, {"id": "card_n_9587548d206b", "title": "Easton: Armour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is employed in the English Bible to denote military equipment, both offensive and defensive. (1.) The offensive weapons were different at different periods of history. The “rod of iron” (Ps. 2:9) is s"}, {"id": "card_n_c8413b8696c9", "title": "Easton: Zebul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Habitation, the governor of Shechem under Abimelech (Judg. 9:28, 30, 36). He informed his master of the intention of the people of Shechem to transfer their allegiance to the Hivite tribe of Hamor. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_529352b41193", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §152: In this combat no man can imagine, unless he had seen and heard as I did, what yelling ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In this combat no man can imagine, unless he had seen and heard as I did, what yelling and hideous roaring Apollyon made all the time of the fight--he spake like a dragon; and, on the other side, what"}, {"id": "card_n_e7e1ce623223", "title": "Easton: Lamech", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The strikerdown; the wild man. (1.) The fifth in descent from Cain. He was the first to violate the primeval ordinance of marriage (Gen. 4:18-24). His address to his two wives, Adah and Zillah (4:23, "}, {"id": "card_n_03436d19eaf2", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §151: Then Apollyon, espying his opportunity, began to gather up close to Christian, and wres...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then Apollyon, espying his opportunity, began to gather up close to Christian, and wrestling with him, gave him a dreadful fall; and with that Christian's sword flew out of his hand. Then said Apollyo"}, {"id": "card_n_919a2099ccd8", "title": "Psalm 44 — Psalm 44", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.>> We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old. You drove out "}, {"id": "card_n_60db5adf706b", "title": "Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans IV", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I give you these instructions, beloved, assured that ye also hold the same opinions [as I do]. But I guard you beforehand from those beasts in the shape of men, whom you must not only not receive, but"}, {"id": "card_n_6dfe0a76e1d2", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §161: About the midst of this valley, I perceived the mouth of hell to be, and it stood also ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "About the midst of this valley, I perceived the mouth of hell to be, and it stood also hard by the wayside. Now, thought Christian, what shall I do? And ever and anon the flame and smoke would come ou"}, {"id": "card_n_e5c6211c6d1b", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §323: Leviathan's sturdiness Besides, their king is at their whistle.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Leviathan's sturdiness Besides, their king is at their whistle. He is never out of hearing; and if at any time they be put to the worst, he, if possible, comes in to help them; and of him it is said, "}, {"id": "card_n_d4089d9888b3", "title": "Easton: Nob", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "High place, a city of the priests, first mentioned in the history of David’s wanderings (1 Sam. 21:1). Here the tabernacle was then standing, and here Ahimelech the priest resided. (See AHIMELECH.) Fr"}, {"id": "card_n_5b2f31bc921b", "title": "Easton: Crucifixion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early times. It is not certain whether it was known among the ancient Jews; probably it was not. The modes of capital punishment according to the M"}, {"id": "card_n_bf63cba9a767", "title": "Easton: Sihon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Striking down. The whole country on the east of Jordan, from the Arnon to the Jabbok, was possessed by the Amorites, whose king, Sihon, refused to permit the Israelites to pass through his territory, "}, {"id": "card_n_f3f8e21e17ed", "title": "Easton: Goliath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Great. (1.) A famous giant of Gath, who for forty days openly defied the armies of Israel, but was at length slain by David with a stone from a sling (1 Sam. 17:4). He was probably descended from the "}, {"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_n_393c4db9f4a0", "title": "Easton: Daniel, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is ranked by the Jews in that division of their Bible called the Hagiographa (Heb. Khethubim). (See BIBLE.) It consists of two distinct parts. The first part, consisting of the first six chapters, is "}, {"id": "card_n_38e08b8b0a3d", "title": "Easton: Helkath-hazzurim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Plot of the sharp blades, or the field of heroes, (2 Sam. 2:16). After the battle of Gilboa, so fatal to Saul and his house, David, as divinely directed, took up his residence in Hebron, and was there"}, {"id": "card_n_9daea1bc0bbb", "title": "Hebrews 4:12", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and int"}, {"id": "card_n_563d55cf87cc", "title": "1689 LBCF ch. 24: Of the Civil Magistrate", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world, has ordained civil magistrates to be under him over the people, for his own glory and the public good — and to this end has armed them with the power o"}]}