A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament: With Devotional and Practical Reflections, for the Use of Families, Volume 2S. Etheridge, 1805 |
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... faith- ful and entertaining record of ancient events . History in general has always been allowed to be very useful , and capable of being improved to many excellent purposes . We may discover many useful truths , and learn many ...
... faith- ful and entertaining record of ancient events . History in general has always been allowed to be very useful , and capable of being improved to many excellent purposes . We may discover many useful truths , and learn many ...
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... faith and patience of God's ancient people , is accommodated to the circumstances of christians . And our en- couragement rises , in proportion to the degree in which we un- derstand the histories , and consider the cases of those ...
... faith and patience of God's ancient people , is accommodated to the circumstances of christians . And our en- couragement rises , in proportion to the degree in which we un- derstand the histories , and consider the cases of those ...
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... faith and patience inherit the promises . 3. They set before us the danger in which the best of men are , of being overcome by temptation . The most perfect of human characters are not exempt from what may be a grievance and reproach to ...
... faith and patience inherit the promises . 3. They set before us the danger in which the best of men are , of being overcome by temptation . The most perfect of human characters are not exempt from what may be a grievance and reproach to ...
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... faith to him , and to confirm ours in him . The sacred histories point out to us the design of God's sev eral dispensations ; show them in their connection and depend- ence ; and lead our thoughts to the grand end and design of all , to ...
... faith to him , and to confirm ours in him . The sacred histories point out to us the design of God's sev eral dispensations ; show them in their connection and depend- ence ; and lead our thoughts to the grand end and design of all , to ...
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... faith in God is confirmed , and your hope en- livened by the united testimony and experience of holy men ; let your hearts ascend in praise to God , who hath given you his word , to be a light to your feet , and a lamp to your path ...
... faith in God is confirmed , and your hope en- livened by the united testimony and experience of holy men ; let your hearts ascend in praise to God , who hath given you his word , to be a light to your feet , and a lamp to your path ...
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Aaron Abimelech according altar Amorites Balaam Balak behold blessing border brethren bullock burnt offering Canaan Canaanites CHAP children of Israel Christ congregation covenant curse daughters death delivered destroyed dren dwelt Egypt Eleazar enemies Ephraim evil faith families fathers favour fear Gibeah Gideon Gilead give God's heart heave offering heaven Heshbon holy honour hundred inheritance Israelites Jephthah Jericho Joshua Judah king lambs land lest Levites LORD commanded LORD hath LORD said unto LORD spake unto LORD thy Manasseh meat offering Moab Moses mount nations numbered pass Philistines possess pray priest princes punishment sacrifice Samson saying servant shalt thou Shechem shekels side Jordan Sihon Sisera smote sons spake unto Moses sword tabernacle tenth deals thereof thing thou hast thou mayest thou shalt thousand took tribe tribe of Manasseh unto the children unto the LORD unto thee wilderness words
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Page 181 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 335 - And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand : and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
Page 161 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Page 234 - Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
Page 134 - Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Page 169 - Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him : because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
Page 185 - Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates : at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it ; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it : lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
Page 145 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 208 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil ; in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Page 181 - THOU shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them : thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother. And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.