{"query": "Easton: Temple", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9e88feeb505a", "title": "Easton: Temple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First used of the tabernacle, which is called “the temple of the Lord” (1 Sam. 1:9). In the New Testament the word is used figuratively of Christ’s human body (John 2:19, 21). Believers are called “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_8098e379b0f0", "title": "Easton: Sanctuary", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Denotes, (1) the Holy Land (Ex. 15:17; comp. Ps. 114:2); (2) the temple (1 Chr. 22:19; 2 Chr. 29:21); (3) the tabernacle (Ex. 25:8; Lev. 12:4; 21:12); (4) the holy place, the place of the Presence (Gr"}, {"id": "card_n_e2da6efaf1f0", "title": "Easton: Dedication, Feast of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 10:22, 42), i.e., the feast of the renewing. It was instituted B.C. 164 to commemorate the purging of the temple after its pollution by Antiochus Epiphanes (B.C. 167), and the rebuilding of the "}, {"id": "card_n_6195c419b71c", "title": "Easton: Temple, the Second", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "After the return from captivity, under Zerubbabel (q.v.) and the high priest Jeshua, arrangements were almost immediately made to reorganize the long-desolated kingdom. The body of pilgrims, forming a"}, {"id": "card_n_78597846927c", "title": "Easton: Shechinah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Chaldee word meaning resting-place, not found in Scripture, but used by the later Jews to designate the visible symbol of God’s presence in the tabernacle, and afterwards in Solomon’s temple. When t"}, {"id": "card_n_3526c472f558", "title": "Easton: Temple, Herod’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The temple erected by the exiles on their return from Babylon had stood for about five hundred years, when Herod the Great became king of Judea. The building had suffered considerably from natural dec"}, {"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_c7fbbd275b37", "title": "Easton: Kore", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Partridge. (1.) A Levite and temple-warder of the Korahites, the son of Asaph. He was father of Shallum and Meshelemiah, temple-porters (1 Chr. 9:19; 26:1). (2.) A Levitical porter at the east gate of"}, {"id": "card_n_e5c539a09fa0", "title": "Easton: Ranges", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Lev. 11:35. Probably a cooking furnace for two or more pots, as the Hebrew word here is in the dual number; or perhaps a fire-place fitted to receive a pair of ovens. (2.) 2 Kings 11:8. A Hebrew "}, {"id": "card_n_20f4551229e5", "title": "Easton: Palace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used now only of royal dwellings, although originally meaning simply (as the Latin word palatium, from which it is derived, shows) a building surrounded by a fence or a paling. In the Authorized Versi"}, {"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_bd877f031a70", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the tower which the primitive fathers of our race built in the land of Shinar after the Deluge (Gen. 11:1-9). Their object in building this tower was probably that it might be seen a"}, {"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_7f184b75428e", "title": "Easton: Samaritan Pentateuch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On the return from the Exile, the Jews refused the Samaritans participation with them in the worship at Jerusalem, and the latter separated from all fellowship with them, and built a temple for themse"}, {"id": "card_n_0e6f538c07c3", "title": "Easton: Azaziah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom Jehovah strengthened. (1.) One of the Levitical harpers in the temple (1 Chr. 15:21). (2.) The father of Hoshea, who was made ruler over the Ephraimites (1 Chr. 27:20). (3.) One who had charge of"}, {"id": "card_n_c9c769b5903d", "title": "Easton: Parbar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Chr. 26:18), a place apparently connected with the temple, probably a “suburb” (q.v.), as the word is rendered in 2 Kings 23:11; a space between the temple wall and the wall of the court; an open p"}, {"id": "card_n_58369f8cb7de", "title": "Easton: Shebuel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Captive of God. (1.) One of the descendants of Gershom, who had charge of the temple treasures in the time of David (1 Chr. 23:16; 26:24). (2.) One of the sons of Heman; one of those whose duty it was"}, {"id": "card_n_6b89d77f83f2", "title": "Easton: Gabbatha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gab Baitha, i.e., “the ridge of the house” = “the temple-mound,” on a part of which the fortress of Antonia was built. This “temple-mound” was covered with a tesselated “pavement” (Gr. lithostroton, i"}, {"id": "card_n_86d54b49393e", "title": "Easton: Mattaniah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gift of Jehovah. (1.) A Levite, son of Heman, the chief of the ninth class of temple singers (1 Chr. 25:4, 16). (2.) A Levite who assisted in purifying the temple at the reformation under Hezekiah (2 "}]}