An Historical Account of the Life and Reign of David, King of Israel: Interspersed with Various Conjectures, Digressions and Disquisitions, in which ... Mr. Bayle's Criticisms Upon the Conduct and Character of that Prince, are Fully Considered, Volume 3J. Osborn, 1742 |
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... reader will pardon me the weakness of wishing to alleviate it . THE Woman was Bathsheba , the wife of Uriah , one of the king's worthies , and then with Joab in the field . And it was easy for the king to fend for her , under the ...
... reader will pardon me the weakness of wishing to alleviate it . THE Woman was Bathsheba , the wife of Uriah , one of the king's worthies , and then with Joab in the field . And it was easy for the king to fend for her , under the ...
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... reader , I believe , can have no doubt , that this disappointment threw the king into great perplexity : he was evidently at a lofs what to do , or how to conduct himself : and in that doubt , commanded Uriah to con tinue at Jerufalem ...
... reader , I believe , can have no doubt , that this disappointment threw the king into great perplexity : he was evidently at a lofs what to do , or how to conduct himself : and in that doubt , commanded Uriah to con tinue at Jerufalem ...
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... reader will , I believe , be better fatisfied , to take the account of this matter , from the facred historian's own words , 2 Sam . xi . 14 , 15 , 16 , and 17 verfes . I can throw no light upon the text by varying them , and GOD forbid ...
... reader will , I believe , be better fatisfied , to take the account of this matter , from the facred historian's own words , 2 Sam . xi . 14 , 15 , 16 , and 17 verfes . I can throw no light upon the text by varying them , and GOD forbid ...
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... reader will pleafe to ob- serve , that they are all to be inflicted upon him in this world that there is not the leaft hint of any part of his punishment's being deferred to the next : even mortal guilt ( the eternal vengeance due to it ...
... reader will pleafe to ob- serve , that they are all to be inflicted upon him in this world that there is not the leaft hint of any part of his punishment's being deferred to the next : even mortal guilt ( the eternal vengeance due to it ...
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... reader's curiofity , to learn fome- + * By the law of GOD , the sheep - thief fhould , at moft , but reftore four - fold , Exod . xxii . 1. If a man shall feal an ox , or a sheep , and kill it , or fell it ; he shall restore five oxen ...
... reader's curiofity , to learn fome- + * By the law of GOD , the sheep - thief fhould , at moft , but reftore four - fold , Exod . xxii . 1. If a man shall feal an ox , or a sheep , and kill it , or fell it ; he shall restore five oxen ...
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Abfalom Abiathar Abishai Achitophel Adonijah affurance againſt Ahimaaz alfo alſo Ammonites Amnon anſwer antient apprehend Araunah Bathsheba becauſe befides beſt book of Samuel cafe cauſe character Chron command confequence confidered courſe David death defire deſtroy diftemper diſpatch diſtreſs divine eafily enemies evil facred faid fame father favour fays the text feems fent fervants fervice fhall fignal filver firſt flain fome friendſhip fuch fuffer fufficiently fuppofe fure fword Gibeon greateſt guilt hath himſelf hiſtory houfe houſe Ifrael inftance Jerufalem Joab Joab's juſtice king king's laſt leaſt Lord meaſures Mephibofheth mercy moft moſt muſt obferve occafion paffage paffed paffion Pelethites perfon Pfalm poffible prefent prieſts princes puniſh purpoſe purſue raiſed reaſon rebellion Saul ſee ſhall ſhe ſhould Solomon ſome ſon ſpirit thee themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand treaſures tribe underſtand unto Uriah Uriah the Hittite whofe wife Zadok