Our Young Folks' Josephus: The Antiquities of the Jews and the Jewish Wars of Flavius JosephusJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1912 - 478 pages |
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... named Banun . After three years he returned to Jeru- salem , where he abandoned the doctrines of the Essenes and became a Pharisee . In the year 63 he visited Rome to pro- cure the liberation of some Jewish prisoners that had been sent ...
... named Banun . After three years he returned to Jeru- salem , where he abandoned the doctrines of the Essenes and became a Pharisee . In the year 63 he visited Rome to pro- cure the liberation of some Jewish prisoners that had been sent ...
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... named Abraham . He was the son of Terah , a shepherd , who lived in a country called Chaldea , in Asia , where the ground was flat and open and well suited for pasturing flocks . Abraham had two brothers , named Nahor and Haran . Nahor ...
... named Abraham . He was the son of Terah , a shepherd , who lived in a country called Chaldea , in Asia , where the ground was flat and open and well suited for pasturing flocks . Abraham had two brothers , named Nahor and Haran . Nahor ...
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... named Lot , and two daugh- ters , named Sarah and Milcah . In those days the laws in regard to marriage were not the same as they are now . God allowed men to marry their near relations , and also to have more wives than one . Therefore ...
... named Lot , and two daugh- ters , named Sarah and Milcah . In those days the laws in regard to marriage were not the same as they are now . God allowed men to marry their near relations , and also to have more wives than one . Therefore ...
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... son , as God had foretold , and he was named Isaac , which in the Chaldaic language meant laughter . For Sarah had laughed when she heard the angels say that she was to have this THE SACRifice of ISAAC 19 THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC......... •
... son , as God had foretold , and he was named Isaac , which in the Chaldaic language meant laughter . For Sarah had laughed when she heard the angels say that she was to have this THE SACRifice of ISAAC 19 THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC......... •
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... named Laban , and whether he was still alive . And they answered that they knew him well , for he was an important man in the town , and that his daughter Rachel fed her father's flock together with them . They wondered , indeed , that ...
... named Laban , and whether he was still alive . And they answered that they knew him well , for he was an important man in the town , and that his daughter Rachel fed her father's flock together with them . They wondered , indeed , that ...
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Page 451 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people.
Page 135 - 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 50 - I have brought up a child who is of a divine form,* and of a generous mind ; and as 1 have received him from the bounty of the river, in a wonderful manner, I thought proper to adopt him for my son, and the heir of thy kingdom.
Page 257 - And when he understood that he was not far from the city, he went out in procession, with the priests and the multitude of the citizens. The procession was venerable, and the manner of it different from that of other nations. It reached to a place called Sapha...
Page 87 - The tract of which they thus became possessed was subsequently allotted to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
Page 441 - You have put up a barrier," he said, " to prevent strangers from polluting your Temple : this the Romans have always respected ; — we have allowed you to put to death all who violated its precincts. Yet ye defile it yourselves with blood and carnage. I call on your Gods — I call on my whole army — I call on the Jews who are with me — I call on yourselves — to witness, that I do not force you to this crime. Come forth, and fight in any other place : and no Roman shall violate your sacred...
Page 166 - ... equal on all sides; and said this beforehand, that it was much better to fall into the hands of God, than into those of his enemies.
Page 451 - And when Albinus (for he was then our procurator) asked him, Who he was '? and whence he came ? and why he uttered such words ? he made no manner of reply to what he said, but still did not leave off his melancholy ditty, till Albinus took him to be a madman, and dismissed him. Now, during all the time that passed before the war began, this man did not go near any of the citizens, nor was...
Page 60 - ... destruction. As soon, therefore, as ever the whole Egyptian army was within it, the sea flowed to its own place, and came down with a torrent raised by storms of wind*, and encompassed the Egyptians. Showers of rain also came down from the sky, and dreadful thunders, and lightning, with flashes of fire. Thunderbolts also were darted upon them. Nor was there any thing which used to be sent by God upon men, as indications of his wrath, which did not happen at this time, for a dark and dismal night...