{"query": "Easton: Temple, the Second", "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_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_77c98f1d85ab", "title": "Easton: Haggai, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists of two brief, comprehensive chapters. The object of the prophet was generally to urge the people to proceed with the rebuilding of the temple. Chapter first comprehends the first address (2-1"}, {"id": "card_n_d958e17500f7", "title": "Easton: Jehiel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God’s living one. (1.) The father of Gibeon (1 Chr. 9:35). (2.) One of David’s guard (1 Chr. 11:44). (3.) One of the Levites “of the second degree,” appointed to conduct the music on the occasion of t"}, {"id": "card_n_ecd6fdc9a41f", "title": "Easton: Daniel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God is my judge, or judge of God. (1.) David’s second son, “born unto him in Hebron, of Abigail the Carmelitess” (1 Chr. 3:1). He is called also Chileab (2 Sam. 3:3). (2.) One of the four great prophe"}, {"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_f34c80659ad8", "title": "Easton: Joppa", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Beauty, a town in the portion of Dan (Josh. 19:46; A.V., “Japho”), on a sandy promontory between Caesarea and Gaza, and at a distance of 30 miles north-west from Jerusalem. It is one of the oldest tow"}, {"id": "card_n_ebb9ee6aa3ee", "title": "Easton: Malachi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Messenger or angel, the last of the minor prophets, and the writer of the last book of the Old Testament canon (Mal. 4:4, 5, 6). Nothing is known of him beyond what is contained in his book of prophec"}, {"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_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_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_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_5a0d951f0365", "title": "Easton: Ezra, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the"}, {"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_18d743c6e0d7", "title": "Easton: Cloud", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew so rendered means “a covering,” because clouds cover the sky. The word is used as a symbol of the Divine presence, as indicating the splendour of that glory which it conceals (Ex. 16:10; 33"}, {"id": "card_n_d3346d27eaef", "title": "Easton: Zerubbabel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The seed of Babylon, the son of Salathiel or Shealtiel (Hag. 1:1; Zorobabel, Matt. 1:12); called also the son of Pedaiah (1 Chr. 3:17-19), i.e., according to a frequent usage of the word “son;” the gr"}, {"id": "card_c_84e59230d6d1", "title": "Easton: Temple, the Second references Zechariah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Zechariah. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_f77b44534ccf", "title": "Easton: Artaxerxes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Greek form of the name of several Persian kings. (1.) The king who obstructed the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 4:7). He was probably the Smerdis of profane history. (2.) The king mentioned in Ez"}, {"id": "card_c_022f54d02330", "title": "Easton: Temple, the Second cites Ezra", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Ezra 4:5; Ezra 1:7; Ezra 6:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_12f0fa95e7f5", "title": "Easton: Ephesus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The capital of proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor. It was colonized principally from Athens. In the time of the Romans it bore the title of “the first and greatest metropolis o"}]}