{"query": "Easton: War", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2e964ada3cc3", "title": "Easton: War", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Israelites had to take possession of the Promised Land by conquest. They had to engage in a long and bloody war before the Canaanitish tribes were finally subdued. Except in the case of Jericho an"}, {"id": "card_n_01d69631e5d2", "title": "Easton: Jephthah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God sets free, or the breaker through, a “mighty man of valour” who delivered Israel from the oppression of the Ammonites (Judg. 11:1-33), and judged Israel six years (12:7). He has been describe"}, {"id": "card_n_961fe386ee00", "title": "Easton: Booty", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Captives or cattle or objects of value taken in war. In Canaan all that breathed were to be destroyed (Deut. 20: 16). The “pictures and images” of the Canaanites were to be destroyed also (Num. 33:52)"}, {"id": "card_n_5e1dc6d0bfeb", "title": "Easton: Ben-hadad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The standing title of the Syrian kings, meaning “the son of Hadad.” (See HADADEZER.) (1.) The king of Syria whom Asa, king of Judah, employed to invade Israel (1 Kings 15:18). (2.) Son of the precedin"}, {"id": "card_n_a7883bf5ce3a", "title": "Easton: Jehu", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is he. (1.) The son of Obed, and father of Azariah (1 Chr. 2:38). (2.) One of the Benjamite slingers that joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:3). (3.) The son of Hanani, a prophet of Judah (1 Ki"}, {"id": "card_n_229b0241062e", "title": "Easton: Judah, Kingdom of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When the disruption took place at Shechem, at first only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David. But very soon after the tribe of Benjamin joined the tribe of Judah, and Jerusalem became the c"}, {"id": "card_n_45a9ed6771ea", "title": "Easton: Artillery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "1 Sam. 20:40, (Heb. keli, meaning “apparatus;” here meaning collectively any missile weapons, as arrows and lances. In Revised Version, “weapons”). This word is derived from the Latin artillaria = equ"}, {"id": "card_n_12f6b7ff2716", "title": "Easton: Eliada", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God cares for. (1.) One of David’s sons born after his establishment in Jerusalem (2 Sam. 5:16). (2.) A mighty man of war, a Benjamite (2 Chr. 17:17). (3.) An Aramite of Zobah, captain of a marau"}, {"id": "card_n_da4b14b78cbe", "title": "Easton: Husband", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., the “house-band,” connecting and keeping together the whole family. A man when betrothed was esteemed from that time a husband (Matt. 1:16, 20; Luke 2:5). A recently married man was exempt from "}, {"id": "card_n_0b750433f1f4", "title": "Easton: Wagon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. aghalah; so rendered in Gen. 45:19, 21, 27; 46:5; Num. 7:3, 7, 8, but elsewhere rendered “cart” (1 Sam. 6:7, etc.). This vehicle was used for peaceful purposes. In Ezek. 23:24, however, it is the"}, {"id": "card_n_f6014b451c59", "title": "Easton: Zobah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Aram-Zobah, (Ps. 60, title), a Syrian province or kingdom to the south of Coele-Syria, and extending from the eastern slopes of Lebanon north and east toward the Euphrates. Saul and David had war wit"}, {"id": "card_n_499b46b2e38b", "title": "Easton: Dart", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An instrument of war; a light spear. “Fiery darts” (Eph. 6:16) are so called in allusion to the habit of discharging darts from the bow while they are on fire or armed with some combustible material. "}, {"id": "card_n_fc2c0a4fe7b5", "title": "Easton: Battle-bow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The war-bow used in fighting (Zech. 9:10; 10:4). “Thy bow was made quite naked” (Hab. 3:9) means that it was made ready for use. By David’s order (2 Sam. 1:18) the young men were taught the use, or ra"}, {"id": "card_n_c42197511e7e", "title": "Easton: Bell", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The bells first mentioned in Scripture are the small golden bells attached to the hem of the high priest’s ephod (Ex. 28:33, 34, 35). The “bells of the horses” mentioned by Zechariah (14:20) were atta"}, {"id": "card_n_474eaa131e95", "title": "Easton: Sabeans", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Descendants of Seba (Gen. 10:7); Africans (Isa. 43:3). They were “men of stature,” and engaged in merchandise (Isa. 45:14). Their conversion to the Lord was predicted (Ps. 72:10). This word, in Ezek. "}, {"id": "card_n_4903af14d7bb", "title": "Easton: Armoury", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The place in which armour was deposited when not used (Neh. 3:19; Jer. 50:25). At first each man of the Hebrews had his own arms, because all went to war. There were no arsenals or magazines for arms "}, {"id": "card_n_545beb89447f", "title": "Easton: Amraphel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "King of Shinar, southern Chaldea, one of the confederates of Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, in a war against Sodom and cities of the plain (Gen. 14:1, 4). It is now found that Amraphel (or Ammirapaltu) i"}, {"id": "card_n_77803c8078b4", "title": "Easton: Hanun", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Graciously given. (1.) The son and successor of Nahash, king of Moab. David’s messengers, sent on an embassy of condolence to him to Rabbah Ammon, his capital, were so grossly insulted that he proclai"}, {"id": "card_n_330dd66caf67", "title": "Easton: Greyhound", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Prov. 30:31), the rendering of the Hebrew zarzir mothnayim, meaning literally “girded as to the lions.” Some (Gesen.; R.V. marg.) render it “war-horse.” The LXX. and Vulgate versions render it “cock."}, {"id": "card_c_911d89790763", "title": "Easton: War references Canaanites", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Canaanites (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}]}