{"query": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5d02125f449c", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 24:15; Mark 13:14; comp. Luke 21:20), is interpreted of the eagles, the standards of the Roman army, which were an abomination to the Jews. These standards, rising over the site of the temple, "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_mark_13_14", "title": "Matthew Henry on Mark 13:14", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Mark 13:14 — The Jews, in rebelling against the Romans, and in persecuting the Christians, were hastening to their own ruin apace, both efficiently and meritoriously, were setting both God and man "}, {"id": "card_c_25675626871c", "title": "Easton: Daystar ↔ Easton: Desolation, Abomination of", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_a_d — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_n_00ad27463b47", "title": "Easton: Banner", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The flag or banner of the larger kind, serving for three tribes marching together. These standards, of which there were four, were worked with embroidery and beautifully ornamented (Num. 1:52; 2:"}, {"id": "card_c_9cbb55173ab9", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_f771667c5514", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of references Romans", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Romans. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_d6c37d497bba", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 13:14 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_a321316abfdf", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 21:20 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_91d44fbb570c", "title": "Easton: Desolation, Abomination of references Dan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Dan (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_66a391ecb6ba", "title": "Easton: Abomination", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is used, (1.) To express the idea that the Egyptians considered themselves as defiled when they ate with strangers (Gen. 43:32). The Jews subsequently followed the same practice, holding it "}, {"id": "card_n_23ddfa0652b0", "title": "Easton: Acts of the Apostles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament. The author styles it a “treatise” (1:1). It was early called “The Acts,” “The Gospel of the Holy Ghost,” and “Th"}, {"id": "card_n_d82725fd8bf4", "title": "Easton: Tophet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Topheth, from Heb. toph “a drum,” because the cries of children here sacrificed by the priests of Moloch were drowned by the noise of such an instrument; or from taph or toph, meaning “to burn,” and "}, {"id": "card_n_6df852add6ba", "title": "Easton: Magic", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews seem early to have consulted the teraphim (q.v.) for oracular answers (Judg. 18:5, 6; Zech. 10:2). There is a remarkable illustration of this divining by teraphim in Ezek. 21:19-22. We read a"}, {"id": "card_n_8bbf589ae37d", "title": "Easton: Owl", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. bath-haya’anah, “daughter of greediness” or of “shouting.” In the list of unclean birds (Lev. 11:16; Deut. 14:15); also mentioned in Job 30:29; Isa. 13:21; 34:13; 43:20; Jer. 50:39; Micah 1:"}, {"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_n_19006cf8f9e2", "title": "Easton: Forest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ya’ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer. 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of Ep"}, {"id": "card_n_0667b6bec0dd", "title": "Easton: Jeroboam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Increase of the people. (1.) The son of Nebat (1 Kings 11:26-39), “an Ephrathite,” the first king of the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two years (B.C. 976-945). He was the son of a widow of "}, {"id": "card_n_06be62a24478", "title": "Easton: Elah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Terebinth or oak. (1.) Valley of, where the Israelites were encamped when David killed Goliath (1 Sam. 17:2, 19). It was near Shochoh of Judah and Azekah (17:1). It is the modern Wady es-Sunt, i.e., “"}, {"id": "card_n_25e88322c198", "title": "Easton: Jeremiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Raised up or appointed by Jehovah. (1.) A Gadite who joined David in the wilderness (1 Chr. 12:10). (2.) A Gadite warrior (1 Chr. 12:13). (3.) A Benjamite slinger who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12"}, {"id": "card_n_6a347eb01bbd", "title": "Easton: Chemosh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The destroyer, subduer, or fish-god, the god of the Moabites (Num. 21:29; Jer. 48:7, 13, 46). The worship of this god, “the abomination of Moab,” was introduced at Jerusalem by Solomon (1 Kings 11:7),"}]}