{"query": "Gideon and the Fleece", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_0042d98a8e3f", "title": "Easton: Fleece", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wool of a sheep, whether shorn off or still attached to the skin (Deut. 18:4; Job 31:20). The miracle of Gideon’s fleece (Judg. 6:37-40) consisted in the dew having fallen at one time on the fleec"}, {"id": "card_n_40152de5a116", "title": "Gideon and the Fleece", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Threshing in the winepress for fear; called mighty man of valor while hiding; tears down his father's altar at night; lays fleece twice; army reduced from thirty-two thousand to three hundred.\n\nFailur"}, {"id": "card_n_86cd9a1e1fce", "title": "Easton: Gideon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also Jerubbaal (Judg. 6:29, 32), was the first of the judges whose history is circumstantially narrated (Judg. 6-8). His calling is the commencement of the second period in the history of the j"}, {"id": "card_n_edf79a6e0295", "title": "Easton: Zebah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Man-killer, or sacrifice, one of the two kings who led the vast host of the Midianites who invaded the land of Israel, and over whom Gideon gained a great and decisive victory (Judg. 8). Zebah and Zal"}, {"id": "card_n_93218c103111", "title": "Easton: Ophrah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A fawn. 1 Chr. 4:14. (1.) A city of Benjamin (Josh. 18:23); probably identical with Ephron (2 Chr. 13:19) and Ephraim (John 11:54). (2.) “Of the Abi-ezrites.” A city of Manasseh, 6 miles south-west of"}, {"id": "card_n_a930c67f4b13", "title": "Easton: Succoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Booths. (1.) The first encampment of the Israelites after leaving Ramesses (Ex. 12:37); the civil name of Pithom (q.v.). (2.) A city on the east of Jordan, identified with Tell Dar’ala, a high mound, "}, {"id": "card_n_29b06212e953", "title": "Easton: Judges, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is so called because it contains the history of the deliverance and government of Israel by the men who bore the title of the “judges.” The book of Ruth originally formed part of this book, but about "}, {"id": "card_n_c948b5cb5d5b", "title": "Easton: Penuel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Face of God, a place not far from Succoth, on the east of the Jordan and north of the river Jabbok. It is also called “Peniel.” Here Jacob wrestled (Gen. 32:24-32) “with a man” (“the angel”, Hos. 12:4"}, {"id": "card_n_d3b5f424303e", "title": "Easton: Esdraelon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Greek form of the Hebrew “Jezreel,” the name of the great plain (called by the natives Merj Ibn Amer; i.e., “the meadow of the son of Amer”) which stretches across Central Palestine from the Jorda"}, {"id": "card_n_4f1d626f71c5", "title": "Easton: Judge", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shophet, pl. shophetim), properly a magistrate or ruler, rather than one who judges in the sense of trying a cause. This is the name given to those rulers who presided over the affairs of the Is"}, {"id": "card_n_aa37a2dcb7e5", "title": "Easton: Jezreel, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lying on the northern side of the city, between the ridges of Gilboa and Moreh, an offshoot of Esdraelon, running east to the Jordan (Josh. 17:16; Judg. 6:33; Hos. 1:5). It was the scene of the signal"}, {"id": "card_n_bba8da4d6545", "title": "Easton: Dream", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will to men. The most remarkable instances of this are recorded in the history of Jacob (Gen. 28:12; 31:10), Laban (31:24), Joseph (37:9-11),"}, {"id": "card_n_cb99a5550d3e", "title": "Easton: Jotham", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is perfect. (1.) The youngest of Gideon’s seventy sons. He escaped when the rest were put to death by the order of Abimelech (Judg. 9:5). When “the citizens of Shechem and the whole house of M"}, {"id": "card_n_9692ee3f6799", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §136: They also showed him some of the engines with which some of his servants had done wonde...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "They also showed him some of the engines with which some of his servants had done wonderful things. They shewed him Moses' rod; the hammer and nail with which Jael slew Sisera; the pitchers, trumpets,"}, {"id": "card_n_cad0d491b8cc", "title": "Easton: Harod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Palpitation, a fountain near which Gideon and his army encamped on the morning of the day when they encountered and routed the Midianites (Judg. 7). It was south of the hill Moreh. The present ‘Ain Ja"}, {"id": "card_n_93723810b32c", "title": "Easton: Karkor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Foundation, a place in the open desert wastes on the east of Jordan (Judg. 8:10), not far beyond Succoth and Penuel, to the south. Here Gideon overtook and routed a fugitive band of Midianites under Z"}, {"id": "card_n_cb30ab57b893", "title": "Easton: Zeeb", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wolf, one of the two leaders of the great Midianite host which invaded Israel and was utterly routed by Gideon. The division of that host, which attempted to escape across the Jordan, under Oreb a"}, {"id": "card_n_dbe87d995cf8", "title": "Easton: Zebulun, Tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Numbered at Sinai (Num. 1:31) and before entering Canaan (26:27). It was one of the tribes which did not drive out the Canaanites, but only made them tributary (Judg. 1:30). It took little interest in"}, {"id": "card_c_7149fd8479bf", "title": "Easton: Fleece cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 31:20 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_bdffff9f25db", "title": "Easton: Barak", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lightning, the son of Abinoam (Judg. 4:6). At the summons of Deborah he made war against Jabin. She accompanied him into the battle, and gave the signal for the little army to make the attack; in whic"}]}