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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_n_d80fbe8b0d63", "title": "Easton: Apocrypha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hidden, spurious, the name given to certain ancient books which found a place in the LXX. and Latin Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, and were appended to all the great translations made from the"}, {"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_c_m_d0d3f46179e3", "title": "Easton: Maccabees, Books of the shares a section with Easton: Martyr", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Maccabees, Books of the shares a section with Easton: Martyr."}, {"id": "card_c_m_2cb3aeb5d03d", "title": "Easton: Maccabees, Books of the shares a section with Easton: Mystery", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Maccabees, Books of the shares a section with Easton: Mystery."}, {"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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