{"query": "Easton: Judges, Book of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_29b06212e953", "title": "Easton: Judges, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is so called because it contains the history of the deliverance and government of Israel by the men who bore the title of the “judges.” The book of Ruth originally formed part of this book, but about "}, {"id": "card_c_m_45a9009a39ca", "title": "Easton: Judges, Book of shares a section with Easton: Lamentations, Book of", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Judges, Book of shares a section with Easton: Lamentations, Book of."}, {"id": "card_c_m_259661a7e160", "title": "Easton: Judges, Book of shares a section with Easton: Jacob’s Well", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Judges, Book of shares a section with Easton: Jacob’s Well."}, {"id": "card_src_book_40076", "title": "Atrocious Judges : Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression — John Campbell, Baron Campbell", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Atrocious Judges : Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression, by John Campbell, Baron Campbell. Subjects: Judges -- England -- Biography; Political questions and judic"}, {"id": "card_n_2acf4e5828ab", "title": "Easton: Ruth The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was originally a part of the Book of Judges, but it now forms one of the twenty-four separate books of the Hebrew Bible. The history it contains refers to a period perhaps about one hundred and twenty"}, {"id": "card_src_word_book_of_judges", "title": "book of judges", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "book of judges: (noun) a book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges — syn: Judges"}, {"id": "card_src_word_judges", "title": "judges", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "judges: (noun) a book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges — syn: Book of Judges"}, {"id": "card_n_d37649c81c16", "title": "Easton: Nehemiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author of this book was no doubt Nehemiah himself. There are portions of the book written in the first person (ch. 1-7; 12:27-47, and 13). But there are also portions of it in which Nehemiah is sp"}, {"id": "card_n_8f9a480cec99", "title": "Easton: Joel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is his God. (1.) The oldest of Samuel’s two sons appointed by him as judges in Beersheba (1 Sam. 8:2). (See VASHNI.) (2.) A descendant of Reuben (1 Chr. 5:4, 8). (3.) One of David’s famous war"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_judges_19_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Judges 19:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Judges 19:1 — The domestic affairs of this Levite would not have been related thus largely but to make way for the following story of the injuries done him, in which the whole nation interested the"}, {"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_915917bcd1fb", "title": "Easton: Revelation, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=The Apocalypse, the closing book and the only prophetical book of the New Testament canon. The author of this book was undoubtedly John the apostle. His name occurs four times in the book itself (1:1"}, {"id": "card_n_734bcd21be45", "title": "Easton: Joshua, The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Contains a history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to that of Joshua. It consists of three parts: (1.) The history of the conquest of the land (1-12). (2.) The allotment of the land to the d"}, {"id": "card_n_addb6bb817e8", "title": "Easton: Proverbs, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A collection of moral and philosophical maxims of a wide range of subjects presented in a poetic form. This book sets forth the “philosophy of practical life. It is the sign to us that the Bible does "}, {"id": "card_n_ea0835f4fb1b", "title": "Easton: Jasher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Upright. “The Book of Jasher,” rendered in the LXX. “the Book of the Upright One,” by the Vulgate “the Book of Just Ones,” was probably a kind of national sacred song-book, a collection of songs in pr"}, {"id": "card_n_86cd9a1e1fce", "title": "Easton: Gideon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also Jerubbaal (Judg. 6:29, 32), was the first of the judges whose history is circumstantially narrated (Judg. 6-8). His calling is the commencement of the second period in the history of the j"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_judges_3_8", "title": "Matthew Henry on Judges 3:8", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Judges 3:8 — We now come to the records of the government of the particular judges, the first of which was Othniel, in whom the story of this book is knit to that of Joshua, for even in Joshua's ti"}, {"id": "card_n_5a0d951f0365", "title": "Easton: Ezra, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the"}, {"id": "card_n_b0a399e44fbf", "title": "Easton: Esther, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The authorship of this book is unknown. It must have been obviously written after the death of Ahasuerus (the Xerxes of the Greeks), which took place B.C. 465. The minute and particular account also g"}, {"id": "card_n_fdff2a158d3f", "title": "Easton: Numbers, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew be-midbar, i.e., “in the wilderness.” In the LXX. version it is called “Numbers,” and this name is now the usual title of the book. It i"}]}