{"query": "Easton: Idolatry", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_df68c9d261cd", "title": "Easton: Idolatry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Image-worship or divine honour paid to any created object. Paul describes the origin of idolatry in Rom. 1:21-25: men forsook God, and sank into ignorance and moral corruption (1:28). The forms of ido"}, {"id": "card_c_m_c3350a13643a", "title": "Easton: Leek shares a section with Easton: Idolatry", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Leek shares a section with Easton: Idolatry."}, {"id": "card_c_m_4fd09347cb57", "title": "Hebrews cites Easton: Idolatry", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrews cites Easton: Idolatry."}, {"id": "card_c_m_b1ebf84074c9", "title": "Matthew cites Easton: Idolatry", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Matthew cites Easton: Idolatry."}, {"id": "card_n_df411a23656a", "title": "Easton: Moon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. yareah, from its paleness (Ezra 6:15), and lebanah, the “white” (Cant. 6:10; Isa. 24:23), was appointed by the Creator to be with the sun “for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years” (Ge"}, {"id": "card_n_a02cbfe45d37", "title": "Easton: Hosea, Prophecies of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This book stands first in order among the “Minor Prophets.” “The probable cause of the location of Hosea may be the thoroughly national character of his oracles, their length, their earnest tone, and "}, {"id": "card_n_eeb3273afc89", "title": "Easton: Jezebel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians, and the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel (1 Kings 16:31). This was the “first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by marriage with"}, {"id": "card_n_9c73d1d54f13", "title": "Easton: Aholah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "She has her own tent, a name used by Ezekiel (23:4, 5, 36, 44) as a symbol of the idolatry of the kingdom of Israel. This kingdom is described as a lewdwoman, an adulteress, given up to the abominatio"}, {"id": "card_n_51ec7b898589", "title": "Easton: Eth-baal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "With Baal, a king of Sidon (B.C. 940-908), father of Jezebel, who was the wife of Ahab (1 Kings 16:31). He is said to have been also a priest of Astarte, whose worship was closely allied to that of Ba"}, {"id": "card_n_e09878be59a1", "title": "Easton: Sun", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shemesh), first mentioned along with the moon as the two great luminaries of heaven (Gen. 1:14-18). By their motions and influence they were intended to mark and divide times and seasons. The wo"}, {"id": "card_n_5eb659f6c2e1", "title": "Easton: Cushan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Probably a poetic or prolonged name of the land of Cush, the Arabian Cush (Hab. 3:7). Some have, however, supposed this to be the same as Chushan-rishathaim (Judg. 3:8, 10), i.e., taking the latter pa"}, {"id": "card_n_1290dc494a4b", "title": "Easton: Asa", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Physician, son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam, was the third king of Judah. He was zealous in maintaining the true worship of God, and in rooting all idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities, "}, {"id": "card_n_56c311dbb95f", "title": "Easton: Alien", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A foreigner, or person born in another country, and therefore not entitled to the rights and privileges of the country where he resides. Among the Hebrews there were two classes of aliens. (1.) Those "}, {"id": "card_n_1a9376024918", "title": "Easton: Idol", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. aven, “nothingness;” “vanity” (Isa. 66:3; 41:29; Deut. 32:21; 1 Kings 16:13; Ps. 31:6; Jer. 8:19, etc.). (2.) ‘Elil, “a thing of naught” (Ps. 97:7; Isa. 19:3); a word of contempt, used of th"}, {"id": "card_n_040e3835ce7a", "title": "Easton: Ahaz", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Possessor. (1.) A grandson of Jonathan (1 Chr. 8:35; 9:42). (2.) The son and successor of Jotham, king of Judah (2 Kings 16; Isa. 7-9; 2 Chr. 28). He gave himself up to a life of wickedness and idolat"}, {"id": "card_n_43df5dde2771", "title": "Easton: Amon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Builder. (1.) The governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab. The prophet Micaiah was committed to his custody (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chr. 18:25). (2.) The son of Manasseh, and fourteenth king of Judah. He re"}, {"id": "card_n_84d0c51936f1", "title": "Easton: Heathen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. plural goyum). At first the word goyim denoted generally all the nations of the world (Gen. 18:18; comp. Gal. 3:8). The Jews afterwards became a people distinguished in a marked manner from the "}, {"id": "card_n_1006cff8ab6d", "title": "Easton: Ehud", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Union. (1.) A descendant of Benjamin (1 Chr. 7:10), his great-grandson. (2.) The son of Gera, of the tribe of Benjamin (Judg. 3:15). After the death of Othniel the people again fell into idolatry, and"}, {"id": "card_n_f2924f2030c7", "title": "Easton: Adultery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Conjugal infidelity. An adulterer was a man who had illicit intercourse with a married or a betrothed woman, and such a woman was an adulteress. Intercourse between a married man and an unmarried woma"}, {"id": "card_n_2e5eecd9c3f4", "title": "Easton: Samaritans", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the new and mixed inhabitants whom Esarhaddon (B.C. 677), the king of Assyria, brought from Babylon and other places and settled in the cities of Samaria, instead of the original inh"}]}