{"query": "Easton: High place", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d3ca682afeb7", "title": "Easton: High place", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An eminence, natural or artificial, where worship by sacrifice or offerings was made (1 Kings 13:32; 2 Kings 17:29). The first altar after the Flood was built on a mountain (Gen. 8:20). Abraham also b"}, {"id": "card_c_m_e64804390734", "title": "Easton: Eden shares a section with Easton: High place", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Eden shares a section with Easton: High place."}, {"id": "card_c_m_570c55f1909e", "title": "Easton: High place shares a section with Easton: Engedi", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: High place shares a section with Easton: Engedi."}, {"id": "card_n_dd7ba8657ea1", "title": "Easton: Annas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was high priest A.D. 7-14. In A.D. 25 Caiaphas, who had married the daughter of Annas (John 18:13), was raised to that office, and probably Annas was now made president of the Sanhedrim, or deputy or "}, {"id": "card_n_5284f333a082", "title": "Easton: High priest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Aaron was the first who was solemnly set apart to this office (Ex. 29:7; 30:23; Lev. 8:12). He wore a peculiar dress, which on his death passed to his successor in office (Ex. 29:29, 30). Besides thos"}, {"id": "card_n_29ebf6e3b636", "title": "Easton: Ensign", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. ‘oth, a military standard, especially of a single tribe (Num. 2:2). Each separate tribe had its own “sign” or “ensign.” (2.) Heb. nes, a lofty signal, as a column or high pole (Num. 21:8, 9)"}, {"id": "card_n_4eead88624e0", "title": "Easton: Armenia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "High land, occurs only in Authorized Version, 2 Kings 19:37; in Revised Version, “Ararat,” which is the Hebrew word. A country in western Asia lying between the Caspian and the Black Sea. Here the ark"}, {"id": "card_n_9d0e70c626b5", "title": "Easton: Beth-haccerem", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of a vineyard, a place in the tribe of Judah (Neh. 3:14) where the Benjamites were to set up a beacon when they heard the trumpet against the invading army of the Babylonians (Jer. 6:1). It is p"}, {"id": "card_n_063bae9f06b1", "title": "Easton: Ararat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sacred land or high land, the name of a country on one of the mountains of which the ark rested after the Flood subsided (Gen. 8:4). The “mountains” mentioned were probably the Kurdish range of South "}, {"id": "card_n_5e99120b85a0", "title": "Easton: Carmel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A park; generally with the article, “the park.” (1.) A prominent headland of Central Palestine, consisting of several connected hills extending from the plain of Esdraelon to the sea, a distance of so"}, {"id": "card_n_55817537d555", "title": "Easton: Accad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The high land or mountains, a city in the land of Shinar. It has been identified with the mounds of Akker Kuf, some 50 miles to the north of Babylon; but this is doubtful. It was one of the cities of "}, {"id": "card_n_439db71b2198", "title": "Easton: Misgab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Height, a town of Moab, or simply, the height=the citadel, some fortress so called; or perhaps a general name for the highlands of Moab, as some think (Jer. 48:1). In Isa. 25:12, the word is rendered "}, {"id": "card_n_8efafc64c265", "title": "Easton: Kirjath-huzoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "City of streets, Num. 22:39, a Moabite city, which some identify with Kirjathaim. Balak here received and entertained Balaam, whom he had invited from Pethor, among the “mountains of the east,” beyond"}, {"id": "card_n_e1106ec279b1", "title": "Easton: Jeshimon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The waste, probably some high waste land to the south of the Dead Sea (Num. 21:20; 23:28; 1 Sam. 23:19, 24); or rather not a proper name at all, but simply “the waste” or “wilderness,” the district on"}, {"id": "card_c_cc626bdb13b3", "title": "Easton: High place references Gilead", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Gilead (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_c08051e79f81", "title": "Easton: Sanballat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Held some place of authority in Samaria when Nehemiah went up to Jerusalem to rebuild its ruined walls. He vainly attempted to hinder this work (Neh. 2:10, 19; 4:1-12; 6). His daughter became the wife"}, {"id": "card_n_d4089d9888b3", "title": "Easton: Nob", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "High place, a city of the priests, first mentioned in the history of David’s wanderings (1 Sam. 21:1). Here the tabernacle was then standing, and here Ahimelech the priest resided. (See AHIMELECH.) Fr"}, {"id": "card_n_2bb4cd399edc", "title": "Easton: Shewbread", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ex. 25:30 (R.V. marg., “presence bread”); 1 Chr. 9:32 (marg., “bread of ordering”); Num. 4:7: called “hallowed bread” (R.V., “holy bread”) in 1 Sam. 21:1-6. This bread consisted of twelve loaves made "}, {"id": "card_n_312a595a186c", "title": "Easton: Aven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nothingness; vanity. (1.) Hosea speaks of the “high places of Aven” (10:8), by which he means Bethel. He also calls it Beth-aven, i.e., “the house of vanity” (4:15), on account of the golden calves Je"}, {"id": "card_n_dc3d12884023", "title": "Easton: Incense", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A fragrant composition prepared by the “art of the apothecary.” It consisted of four ingredients “beaten small” (Ex. 30:34-36). That which was not thus prepared was called “strange incense” (30:9). It"}]}