{"query": "Easton: Wall", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_7fba6f153494", "title": "Easton: Shur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An enclosure; a wall, a part, probably, of the Arabian desert, on the north-eastern border of Egypt, giving its name to a wilderness extending from Egypt toward Philistia (Gen. 16:7; 20:1; 25:18; Ex. "}, {"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"}, {"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_446dfc378ee1", "title": "Easton: Wall", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cities were surrounded by walls, as distinguished from “unwalled villages” (Ezek. 38:11; Lev. 25:29-34). They were made thick and strong (Num. 13:28; Deut. 3:5). Among the Jews walls were built of sto"}, {"id": "card_n_670ae49d6906", "title": "Easton: Ophel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hill; mound, the long, narrow, rounded promontory on the southern slope of the temple hill, between the Tyropoeon and the Kedron valley (2 Chr. 27:3; 33:14; Neh. 3:26, 27). It was surrounded by a sepa"}, {"id": "card_n_58c5acfcb75e", "title": "Easton: Gethsemane", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Oil-press, the name of an olive-yard at the foot of the Mount of Olives, to which Jesus was wont to retire (Luke 22:39) with his disciples, and which is specially memorable as being the scene of his a"}, {"id": "card_c_442907bc793f", "title": "Easton: Wall cites 1 Kings", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites 1 Kings 6:7 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_a1cbe035132f", "title": "Easton: Wall cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 13:1 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_8d2d50f4e4b3", "title": "Easton: Mene", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Dan. 5:25, 26), numbered, one of the words of the mysterious inscription written “upon the plaister of the wall” in Belshazzar’s palace at Babylon. The writing was explained by Daniel. (See BELSHAZZA"}, {"id": "card_n_9e1ec2c36e2b", "title": "Easton: Battering-ram", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ezek. 4:2; 21:22), a military engine, consisting of a long beam of wood hung upon a frame, for making breaches in walls. The end of it which was brought against the wall was shaped like a ram’s head."}, {"id": "card_n_71caf1429783", "title": "Easton: Bani", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Built. (1.) 1 Chr. 6:46. (2.) One of David’s thirty-seven warriors, a Gadite (2 Sam. 23:36). (3.) Ezra 2:10; 10:29, 34, 38. (4.) A Levite who was prominent in the reforms on the return from Babylon (N"}, {"id": "card_n_e13863b7e4ea", "title": "Easton: Geshem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Gashmu, firmness, probably chief of the Arabs south of Palestine, one of the enemies of the Jews after the return from Babylon (Neh. 2:19; 6:1, 2). He united with Sanballat and Tobiah in opposing t"}, {"id": "card_n_462dd2ad643c", "title": "Devotional: Insight: The Ephraim Gate", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Be careful which gates you open. God may be warning you to close off partnerships, habits, or voices that look like allies but are walking in rebellion. If you don't close the gate when He says to — i"}, {"id": "card_n_f8813b0656fe", "title": "Easton: Kir", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A wall or fortress, a place to which Tiglath-pileser carried the Syrians captive after he had taken the city of Damascus (2 Kings 16:9; Amos 1:5; 9:7). Isaiah (22:6), who also was contemporary with th"}, {"id": "card_n_90191220465e", "title": "Easton: Hail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Frozen rain-drops; one of the plagues of Egypt (Ex. 9:23). It is mentioned by Haggai as a divine judgment (Hag. 2:17). A hail-storm destroyed the army of the Amorites when they fought against Joshua ("}, {"id": "card_n_0cbb44e099ef", "title": "Easton: Gedor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A wall. (1.) A city in the mountains or hill country of Judah (Josh. 15:58), identified with Jedar, between Jerusalem and Hebron. (2.) 1 Chr. 4:39, the Gederah of Josh. 15:36, or the well-known Gerar,"}, {"id": "card_n_2a67111f61f5", "title": "Easton: Eliashib", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God will restore. (1.) A priest, head of one of the courses of the priests of the time of David (1 Chr. 24:12). (2.) A high priest in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (Neh. 12:22, 23). He rebuilt th"}, {"id": "card_n_8bcd11e12c3e", "title": "Easton: Etham", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Perhaps another name for Khetam, or “fortress,” on the Shur or great wall of Egypt, which extended from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Suez. Here the Israelites made their third encampment (Ex. 13:2"}, {"id": "card_n_9a92b12fb7b4", "title": "Easton: College", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. mishneh (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chr. 34:22), rendered in Revised Version “second quarter”, the residence of the prophetess Huldah. The Authorized Version followed the Jewish commentators, who, followin"}]}