{"query": "Easton: Temple, Solomon’s", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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_fbfa0cbf408e", "title": "Easton: Gate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of cities, as of Jerusalem (Jer. 37:13; Neh. 1:3; 2:3; 3:3), of Sodom (Gen. 19:1), of Gaza (Judg. 16:3). (2.) Of royal palaces (Neh. 2:8). (3.) Of the temple of Solomon (1 Kings 6:34, 35; 2 Kings"}, {"id": "card_n_454a8b625700", "title": "Easton: Sea, The molten", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The great laver made by Solomon for the use of the priests in the temple, described in 1 Kings 7:23-26; 2 Chr. 4:2-5. It stood in the south-eastern corner of the inner court. It was 5 cubits high, 10 "}, {"id": "card_n_7ccceb024537", "title": "Easton: Ahijah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Brother (i.e., “friend”) of Jehovah. (1.) One of the sons of Bela (1 Chr. 8:7, R.V.). In A.V. called “Ahiah.” (2.) One of the five sons of Jerahmeel, who was great-grandson of Judah (1 Chr. 2:25). (3."}, {"id": "card_n_8b980dce7227", "title": "Easton: Cedar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. e’rez, Gr. kedros, Lat. cedrus), a tree very frequently mentioned in Scripture. It was stately (Ezek. 31:3-5), long-branched (Ps. 80:10; 92:12; Ezek. 31:6-9), odoriferous (Cant. 4:11; Hos. 14:6)"}, {"id": "card_n_390cebdcd5c4", "title": "Easton: Moriah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The chosen of Jehovah. Some contend that Mount Gerizim is meant, but most probably we are to regard this as one of the hills of Jerusalem. Here Solomon’s temple was built, on the spot that had been th"}, {"id": "card_n_870e02ca7fd0", "title": "Easton: Building", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the Jews was suited to the climate and conditions of the country. They probably adopted the kind of architecture for their dwellings which they found already existing when they entered Canaan (D"}, {"id": "card_n_ebea07e0d389", "title": "Easton: Censer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The vessel in which incense was presented on “the golden altar” before the Lord in the temple (Ex. 30:1-9). The priest filled the censer with live coal from the sacred fire on the altar of burnt-offer"}, {"id": "card_n_ad13fee569a5", "title": "Easton: Tyropoeon Valley", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(i.e., “Valley of the Cheesemongers”), the name given by Josephus the historian to the valley or rugged ravine which in ancient times separated Mount Moriah from Mount Zion. This valley, now filled up"}, {"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"}]}