{"query": "Easton: Chronicles, Books of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_3f25971a39e2", "title": "Easton: Chronicles, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., “Acts of the Days.” This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version “Chronicon,” and hence "}, {"id": "card_n_ac7a1b4d5c0d", "title": "Easton: Kings, The Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. 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This word does not occur in Scripture, nor is it certainly known when the roll was thus divided into five portions Genesi"}, {"id": "card_n_e3616f871091", "title": "Easton: Maccabees, Books of the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were originally five books of the Maccabees. The first contains a history of the war of independence, commencing (B.C. 175) in a series of patriotic struggles against the tyranny of Antiochus Ep"}, {"id": "card_c_m_2e59f8677adc", "title": "Easton: Samuel, Books of shares a section with Easton: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Samuel, Books of shares a section with Easton: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil."}, {"id": "card_src_word_1_chronicles", "title": "1 chronicles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "1 chronicles: (noun) the first of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC — syn: I Chronicles"}, {"id": "card_src_word_i_chronicles", "title": "i chronicles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "i chronicles: (noun) the first of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC — syn: 1 Chronicles"}, {"id": "card_src_word_2_chronicles", "title": "2 chronicles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "2 chronicles: (noun) the second of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC — syn: II Chronicles"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_chronicles_3_10", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 3:10", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Chronicles 3:10 — David having nineteen sons, we may suppose them to have raised many noble families in Israel whom we never hear of in the history. 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