{"query": "Lincoln in the Divided House", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_bb40604cf92a", "title": "Lincoln in the Divided House", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Frontier lawyer of unusual gravity who wins the presidency of a fracturing union; refuses to recognize secession; prosecutes the war while writing letters of personal condolence to widows; signs the E"}, {"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_83b4f42beff5", "title": "Easton: Chapter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The several books of the Old and New Testaments were from an early time divided into chapters. The Pentateuch was divided by the ancient Hebrews into 54 parshioth or sections, one of which was read in"}, {"id": "card_n_68af30a18bda", "title": "Easton: Shearing-house", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Kings 10:12, 14; marg., “house of shepherds binding sheep.” R.V., “the shearing-house of the shepherds;” marg., “house of gathering”), some place between Samaria and Jezreel, where Jehu slew “two a"}, {"id": "card_n_3cdc1e9d466b", "title": "2 Samuel 7", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. When the king lived in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies all around,\n2. the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwell"}, {"id": "card_n_d264f078d165", "title": "Easton: Courses", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When David was not permitted to build the temple, he proceeded, among the last acts of his life, with the assistance of Zadok and Ahimelech, to organize the priestly and musical services to be conduct"}, {"id": "card_n_abd17e525428", "title": "Easton: Deuteronomy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In all the Hebrew manuscripts the Pentateuch (q.v.) forms one roll or volume divided into larger and smaller sections called parshioth_ and _sedarim. It is not easy to say when it was divided into fiv"}, {"id": "card_n_63d52412a710", "title": "Easton: Decalogue", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given by the Greek fathers to the ten commandments; “the ten words,” as the original is more literally rendered (Ex. 20:3-17). These commandments were at first written on two stone slabs (31:"}, {"id": "card_n_19079c10b24d", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_20_wise_and_foolish_builders: \"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will like...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on th"}, {"id": "card_n_12ce9a5d36c8", "title": "Easton: Bird", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Birds are divided in the Mosaic law into two classes, (1) the clean (Lev. 1:14-17; 5:7-10; 14:4-7), which were offered in sacrifice; and (2) the unclean (Lev. 11:13-20). When offered in sacrifice, the"}, {"id": "card_n_1a75580d235c", "title": "Genesis 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.\n2. The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.\n3"}, {"id": "card_n_a76395b98b78", "title": "Psalm 127 — Except the LORD Build the House", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.>> Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. It is vain for you to rise up e"}, {"id": "card_n_30088c59ad6d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xxiii: There is but one light of the sun, though it be intercepted by walls and moun...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is but one light of the sun, though it be intercepted by walls and mountains, and other thousand objects. There is but one common substance of the whole world, though it be concluded and restrai"}, {"id": "card_n_d07cde39d4e7", "title": "Easton: Door-keeper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used in Ps. 84:10 (R.V. marg., “stand at the threshold of,” etc.), but there it signifies properly “sitting at the threshold in the house of God.” The psalmist means that he would rather "}, {"id": "card_n_81e81adf522b", "title": "Easton: Beth-aven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of nothingness; i.e., “of idols”, a place in the mountains of Benjamin, east of Bethel (Josh. 7:2; 18:12; 1 Sam. 13:5). In Hos. 4:15; 5:8; 10:5 it stands for “Bethel” (q.v.), and it is so called"}, {"id": "card_n_e5c841c02410", "title": "A parable — Ltv", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man borrowed against his house until the debt reached the rooftop. When the wind came and shook the price down by a tenth, the rooftop was beneath the debt. He still lived in the house, but the hous"}, {"id": "card_n_4f74daec55a7", "title": "Easton: Obed-Edom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Servant of Edom. (1.) “The Gittite” (probably so called because he was a native of Gath-rimmon), a Levite of the family of the Korhites (1 Chr. 26:1, 4-8), to whom was specially intrusted the custody "}, {"id": "card_n_5c1a1d7930e6", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §115: Then she asked him whence he was, and whither he was going, and he told her.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then she asked him whence he was, and whither he was going, and he told her. She asked him also how he got into the way; and he told her. Then she asked him what he had seen and met with in the way; a"}, {"id": "card_n_9c24074fe17d", "title": "Easton: Day", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps. 55:17). “The heat of the day” (1 Sam. 11:11; Neh. 7:3) was at our nine o’clock, and “the c"}, {"id": "card_n_ea1eb2bf8a62", "title": "Easton: Hour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First found in Dan. 3:6; 4:19, 33;5:5. It is the rendering of the Chaldee shaah, meaning a “moment,” a “look.” It is used in the New Testament frequently to denote some determinate season (Matt. 8:13;"}]}