The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus: Containing six books of the Antiquities of the JewsW. Borradaile, 1824 |
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... Jerusalem , 1 Sam . xxi . 5. The number of priests here slain in Josephus is 385 and but 85 in our Hebrew copies , yet are they 305 in the Septuagint : I pre- fer Josephus's number , the Hebrew having , I suppose , only dropped the ...
... Jerusalem , 1 Sam . xxi . 5. The number of priests here slain in Josephus is 385 and but 85 in our Hebrew copies , yet are they 305 in the Septuagint : I pre- fer Josephus's number , the Hebrew having , I suppose , only dropped the ...
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... Jerusalem . CHAP , III . How David laid siege to Jerusalem ; and when he had taken the city , he cast the Canaanites out of it , and brought in the Jews to inhabit therein . 1. Now the Jebusites , who were the inhabitants of Je- rusalem ...
... Jerusalem . CHAP , III . How David laid siege to Jerusalem ; and when he had taken the city , he cast the Canaanites out of it , and brought in the Jews to inhabit therein . 1. Now the Jebusites , who were the inhabitants of Je- rusalem ...
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... Jerusalem , and employed his utmost diligence and alacrity therein , as intending , by the taking of this place , to demonstrate his power , and to intimi- date all others that might be of the like [ evil ] disposition to- wards him so ...
... Jerusalem , and employed his utmost diligence and alacrity therein , as intending , by the taking of this place , to demonstrate his power , and to intimi- date all others that might be of the like [ evil ] disposition to- wards him so ...
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... Jerusalem . Now David made buildings round about the lower city ; he also joined the citadel to it , and made it one body ; and when he had encompassed all with walls , he appointed Joab to take care of them . It was David , there- fore ...
... Jerusalem . Now David made buildings round about the lower city ; he also joined the citadel to it , and made it one body ; and when he had encompassed all with walls , he appointed Joab to take care of them . It was David , there- fore ...
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... Jerusalem , he removed the ark to Jerusalem , and had a mind to build a temple . § 1. WHEN the Philistines understood that David was made king of the Hebrews , they made war agaist him at Jerusa- lem ; and when they had seized upon that ...
... Jerusalem , he removed the ark to Jerusalem , and had a mind to build a temple . § 1. WHEN the Philistines understood that David was made king of the Hebrews , they made war agaist him at Jerusa- lem ; and when they had seized upon that ...
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Page 35 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 135 - And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand ; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile ; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
Page 77 - And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do ; the heads of them were two hundred ; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
Page 214 - In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon : when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
Page 141 - God foretold to my father that such a house should be built by me ; wherefore I desire thee to send some of thy subjects with mine to Mount Lebanon to cut down timber ; for the Sidonians are more skilful than our people in cutting of wood. As for wages to the hewers of wood, I will pay whatsoever price thou shalt determine.
Page 140 - God also enabled him to learn that skill which expels demons,* which is a science useful and sanative to men. He composed such incantations also by which distempers are alleviated. And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which they drive away demons, so that they never return; and this method of cure is of great force unto this day...
Page 165 - There was a certain place, about fifty furlongs distant from Jerusalem, which is called Etham, very pleasant it is in fine gardens, and abounding in rivulets of water; thither did he use to go out in the morning, sitting on high [in his chariot].
Page 154 - And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
Page 140 - The manner of the cure was this : he put a ring that had a root of one of those sorts mentioned by Solomon to the nostrils of the demoniac, after which he drew out the demon through his nostrils. And, when the man fell down immediately, he adjured him to return into him no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed.
Page 140 - And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which they drive away demons, so that they never return; and this method of cure is of great force unto this day; for I have seen a certain man of my own country, whose name was Eleazar, releasing people that were demoniacal in the presence of Vespasian, and his sons, and his captains, and the whole multitude of his soldiers.