{"query": "Easton: Towers", "count": 18, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9c80d89a8dd7", "title": "Easton: Towers", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of Babel (Gen. 11:4), Edar (Gen. 35:21), Penuel (Judg. 8:9, 17), Shechem (9:46), David (Cant. 4:4), Lebanon (7:4), Syene (Ezek. 29:10), Hananeel (Zech. 14:10), Siloam (Luke 13:4). There were several t"}, {"id": "card_n_6bd16e73d103", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were in Palestine (1) cities, (2) unwalled villages, and (3) villages with castles or towers (1 Chr. 27:25). Cities, so called, had walls, and were thus fenced. The fortifications consisted of o"}, {"id": "card_c_0beb8e9c6a0e", "title": "Easton: Towers references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_15f8fc99b163", "title": "Easton: Gammadim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ezek. 27:11) brave warriors; R.V. marg., “valorous men;” others interpret this word as meaning “short-swordsmen,” or “daring ones”, the name of a class of men who were defenders of the towers of Tyre"}, {"id": "card_n_c7680c4f3115", "title": "Easton: Bulwarks", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mural towers, bastions, were introduced by king Uzziah (2 Chr. 26:15; Zeph. 1:16; Ps. 48:13; Isa. 26:1). There are five Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version, but the same word is also va"}, {"id": "card_c_c296eef09b74", "title": "Easton: Towers cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 13:4 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_d2da0dcf39ba", "title": "Easton: Towers references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_84bcc5350757", "title": "Easton: Towers references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_b116338094fb", "title": "Easton: Towers references Penuel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Penuel (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_433c7b2e9e78", "title": "Easton: Towers references Shechem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Shechem (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_6f596a36463c", "title": "Easton: Towers references Syene", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Syene (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_7753f3a8e9a3", "title": "Easton: Dalmanutha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A place on the west of the Sea of Galilee, mentioned only in Mark 8:10. In the parallel passage it is said that Christ came “into the borders of Magdala” (Matt. 15:39). It is plain, then, that Dalmanu"}, {"id": "card_n_5394dc7fa434", "title": "Easton: Gardens", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Scripture, of Eden (Gen. 2:8, 9); Ahab’s garden of herbs (1 Kings 21:2); the royal garden (2 Kings 21:18); the royal garden at Susa (Esther 1:5); the garden of Joseph of Arimathea (John 1"}, {"id": "card_n_383ae27df1b2", "title": "Easton: Watches", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The periods into which the time between sunset and sunrise was divided. They are so called because watchmen relieved each other at each of these periods. There are frequent references in Scripture to "}, {"id": "card_n_60b0e3e89d33", "title": "Easton: Teil tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(an old name for the lime-tree, the tilia), Isa. 6:13, the terebinth, or turpentine-tree, the Pistacia terebinthus of botanists. The Hebrew word here used (elah) is rendered oak (q.v.) in Gen. 35:4; J"}, {"id": "card_n_406532282137", "title": "Easton: Herdsman", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Egypt herdsmen were probably of the lowest caste. Some of Joseph’s brethren were made rulers over Pharaoh’s cattle (Gen. 47:6, 17). The Israelites were known in Egypt as “keepers of cattle;” and wh"}, {"id": "card_n_e86df94f76a6", "title": "Easton: Ashkelon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Askelon=Ascalon, was one of the five cities of the Philistines (Josh. 13:3; 1 Sam. 6:17). It stood on the shore of the Mediterranean, 12 miles north of Gaza. It is mentioned on an inscription at Karn"}, {"id": "card_n_fe4bf814bb06", "title": "Easton: Merom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Height, a lake in Northern Palestine through which the Jordan flows. It was the scene of the third and last great victory gained by Joshua over the Canaanites (Josh. 11:5-7). It is not again mentioned"}]}