{"query": "Easton: Avenger of blood", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1aa07a7839ff", "title": "Easton: Avenger of blood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. goel, from verb gaal, “to be near of kin,” “to redeem”), the nearest relative of a murdered person. It was his right and duty to slay the murderer (2 Sam. 14:7, 11) if he found him outside of a "}, {"id": "card_c_m_a06b8e41c77b", "title": "Easton: Almug shares a section with Easton: Avenger of blood", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Almug shares a section with Easton: Avenger of blood."}, {"id": "card_c_m_90c063cf17f1", "title": "Easton: Avenger of blood shares a section with Easton: Abarim", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Avenger of blood shares a section with Easton: Abarim."}, {"id": "card_n_b003bb46e6aa", "title": "Easton: Blood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) As food, prohibited in Gen. 9:4, where the use of animal food is first allowed. Comp. Deut. 12:23; Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10-14. The injunction to abstain from blood is renewed in the decree of the "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_28_17", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:17", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 28:17 — This agrees with that ancient law, Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed (Gen 9:6), and proclaims, 1. The doom of the shedder of blood. He that has committed m"}, {"id": "card_n_8b78ff3fde97", "title": "Easton: Kinsman", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. goel, from root meaning to redeem. The goel among the Hebrews was the nearest male blood relation alive. Certain important obligations devolved upon him toward his next of kin. (1.) If any one fr"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_deuteronomy_19_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 19:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Deuteronomy 19:1 — It was one of the precepts given to the sons of Noah that whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed, that is, by the avenger of blood, Gen 9:6. Now here we have t"}, {"id": "card_c_0aeb114ca47f", "title": "Easton: Abarim ↔ Easton: Avenger of blood", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_place_a_d — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_c_b85fd43cefb1", "title": "Easton: Avenger of blood ↔ Easton: Almug", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_place_a_d — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_n_d1b2d9bd24c0", "title": "Easton: Goel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Hebrew the participle of the verb gaal, “to redeem.” It is rendered in the Authorized Version “kinsman,” Num. 5:8; Ruth 3:12; 4:1, 6, 8; “redeemer,” Job 19:25; “avenger,” Num. 35:12; Deut. 19:6, et"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_2_samuel_4_9", "title": "Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 4:9", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 2 Samuel 4:9 — We have here justice done upon the murderers of Ish-bosheth.\nI. Sentence passed upon them. There needed no evidence, their own tongues witnessed against them; they were so far from d"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_joshua_20_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Joshua 20:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Joshua 20:1 — Many things were by the law of Moses ordered to be done when they came to Canaan and this among the rest, the appointing of sanctuaries for the protecting of those that were guilty of"}, {"id": "card_n_f00240775d03", "title": "Easton: Drink-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consisted of wine (Num. 15:5; Hos. 9:4) poured around the altar (Ex. 30:9). Joined with meat-offerings (Num. 6:15, 17; 2 Kings 16:13; Joel 1:9, 13; 2:14), presented daily (Ex. 29:40), on the Sabbath ("}, {"id": "card_n_23ddfa0652b0", "title": "Easton: Acts of the Apostles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament. The author styles it a “treatise” (1:1). It was early called “The Acts,” “The Gospel of the Holy Ghost,” and “Th"}, {"id": "card_n_8fa579adfa24", "title": "Easton: Abel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. Hebhel), a breath, or vanity, the second son of Adam and Eve. He was put to death by his brother Cain (Gen. 4:1-16). Guided by the instruction of their father, the two brothers were trained in t"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_habakkuk_2_15", "title": "Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:15", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Habakkuk 2:15 — The three foregoing articles, upon which the woes here are grounded, are very near akin to each other. The criminals charged by them are oppressors and extortioners, that raise esta"}, {"id": "card_n_aaeb5084db01", "title": "Easton: Jehoshaphat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah-judged. (1.) One of David’s body-guard (1 Chr. 11:43). (2.) One of the priests who accompanied the removal of the ark to Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15:24). (3.) Son of Ahilud, “recorder” or annalist un"}, {"id": "card_n_048bd5e3c62d", "title": "Easton: Samuel, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The LXX. translators regarded the books of Samuel and of Kings as forming one continuous history, which they divided into four books, which they called “Books of the Kingdom.” The Vulgate version foll"}, {"id": "card_n_1987410ceae9", "title": "Easton: Plague", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “stroke” of affliction, or disease. Sent as a divine chastisement (Num. 11:33; 14:37; 16:46-49; 2 Sam. 24:21). Painful afflictions or diseases, (Lev. 13:3, 5, 30; 1 Kings 8:37), or severe calamity ("}, {"id": "card_n_ad9dc748d311", "title": "Easton: Horn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Trumpets were at first horns perforated at the tip, used for various purposes (Josh. 6:4, 5). Flasks or vessels were made of horn (1 Sam. 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39). But the word is used also metaphorica"}]}