{"query": "Easton: Fenced cities", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6bd16e73d103", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There were in Palestine (1) cities, (2) unwalled villages, and (3) villages with castles or towers (1 Chr. 27:25). Cities, so called, had walls, and were thus fenced. The fortifications consisted of o"}, {"id": "card_n_4fdf3cc0a40c", "title": "Easton: City", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The earliest mention of city-building is that of Enoch, which was built by Cain (Gen. 4:17). After the confusion of tongues, the descendants of Nimrod founded several cities (10:10-12). Next, we have "}, {"id": "card_n_f5b7b677ec46", "title": "Easton: Cinnereth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A harp, one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (Josh. 19:35; comp. Deut. 3:17). It also denotes, apparently, a district which may have taken its name from the adjacent city or lake of Gennesaret, anci"}, {"id": "card_n_c2877d726411", "title": "Easton: Sennacherib", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sin (the god) sends many brothers, son of Sargon, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria (B.C. 705), in the 23rd year of Hezekiah. “Like the Persian Xerxes, he was weak and vainglorious, cowardly "}, {"id": "card_n_ee6df934e217", "title": "Easton: Hammath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Warm springs, one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (Josh. 19:35). It is identified with the warm baths (the heat of the water ranging from 136 degrees to 144 degrees) still found on the shore a litt"}, {"id": "card_n_be62531a8449", "title": "Easton: Decapolis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ten cities=deka, ten, and polis, a city, a district on the east and south-east of the Sea of Galilee containing “ten cities,” which were chiefly inhabited by Greeks. It included a portion of Bashan an"}, {"id": "card_n_8dfa0797559c", "title": "Easton: Siddim, Vale of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Valley of the broad plains, “which is the salt sea” (Gen. 14:3, 8, 10), between Engedi and the cities of the plain, at the south end of the Dead Sea. It was “full of slime-pits” (R.V., “bitumen pits”)"}, {"id": "card_c_46b8b6fc9e69", "title": "Easton: Fenced cities references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_src_book_56442", "title": "Romantic Cities of Provence — Mona Caird", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Romantic Cities of Provence, by Mona Caird. Subjects: Provence (France) -- Description and travel; Cities and towns -- France -- Provence. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org"}, {"id": "card_src_book_7187", "title": "Seven English Cities — William Dean Howells", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Seven English Cities, by William Dean Howells. Subjects: Great Britain -- Description and travel; Cities and towns -- Great Britain. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebook"}, {"id": "card_src_book_2504", "title": "Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam — Hubert Howe Bancroft", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, by Hubert Howe Bancroft. Subjects: Cities and towns; San Francisco (Calif.). Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2504"}, {"id": "card_src_book_35575", "title": "Peculiarities of American Cities — Willard W. Glazier", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Peculiarities of American Cities, by Willard W. Glazier. Subjects: United States -- Description and travel; Canada -- Description and travel; Cities and towns -- United States; Cities and towns -- Can"}, {"id": "card_n_feca9c876bc7", "title": "Easton: Shishak I", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Sheshonk I., king of Egypt. His reign was one of great national success, and a record of his wars and conquests adorns the portico of what are called the “Bubastite kings” at Karnak, the ancient Theb"}, {"id": "card_n_70b3d24495b5", "title": "Easton: Beth-shemesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of the sun. (1.) A sacerdotal city in the tribe of Dan (Josh. 21:16; 1 Sam. 6:15), on the north border of Judah (Josh. 15:10). It was the scene of an encounter between Jehoash, king of Israel, a"}, {"id": "card_src_book_44854", "title": "Great Cities of the United States Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial — Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Great Cities of the United States Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial, by Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth. Subjects: United States -- Description and travel; Cities and towns -- United States"}, {"id": "card_src_book_46134", "title": "Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of \"To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform\" — Ebenezer, Sir Howard", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of \"To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform\", by Ebenezer, Sir Howard. Subjects: Garden cities. 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Read the full text (public"}, {"id": "card_src_book_69067", "title": "The ruined cities of Mashonaland: Being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891 — J. Theodore (James Theodore) Bent", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The ruined cities of Mashonaland: Being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891, by J. Theodore (James Theodore) Bent. Subjects: Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city); Extinct cities -- Zimbabwe -- Mas"}, {"id": "card_n_43105d82f21d", "title": "Easton: Kedesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sanctuary. (1.) A place in the extreme south of Judah (Josh. 15:23). Probably the same as Kadesh-barnea (q.v.). (2.) A city of Issachar (1 Chr. 6:72). Possibly Tell Abu Kadeis, near Lejjun. (3.) A “fe"}]}