A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament, with Devotional and Practical Reflections, for the Use of Families, Volume 2Samuel Etheridge, 1805 |
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... religion as any in the New . The simplicity , as well as shortness of the scrip- ture histories , does not allow the inspired penmen to take up time in drawing characters and writing encomiums , such as are to be found in common ...
... religion as any in the New . The simplicity , as well as shortness of the scrip- ture histories , does not allow the inspired penmen to take up time in drawing characters and writing encomiums , such as are to be found in common ...
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... religion . And let me add , it is a debt of justice to good characters in ancient times , as well as at present , not hastily to receive an opinion to their disadvantage ; but to consider the circumstances of the action , of time and ...
... religion . And let me add , it is a debt of justice to good characters in ancient times , as well as at present , not hastily to receive an opinion to their disadvantage ; but to consider the circumstances of the action , of time and ...
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... religion , and their external privileges , as belonging to the church and kingdom of God , as if that alone would secure the divine favour . This is a fatal error , and we are cautioned against it by the precepts and by the histories of ...
... religion , and their external privileges , as belonging to the church and kingdom of God , as if that alone would secure the divine favour . This is a fatal error , and we are cautioned against it by the precepts and by the histories of ...
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... religion . 6. They manifest God's favourable regard to the upright , not- withstanding the imperfections of their characters . The follies and faults of good men could not be passed by , without observation , reproof , and punishment ...
... religion . 6. They manifest God's favourable regard to the upright , not- withstanding the imperfections of their characters . The follies and faults of good men could not be passed by , without observation , reproof , and punishment ...
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... religion for the benefit of the neighbouring nations ; and , for the same end , scattering them , and their sacred records , through the most considerable nations of the earth . But we shall have an imperfect notion of the Jewish religion ...
... religion for the benefit of the neighbouring nations ; and , for the same end , scattering them , and their sacred records , through the most considerable nations of the earth . But we shall have an imperfect notion of the Jewish religion ...
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Aaron Abimelech according altar Amorites Balaam Balak behold blessing border brethren bullock burnt offering Canaan Canaanites CHAP chil children of Israel Christ congregation covenant curse daughters death delivered destroyed 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 174 - If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates : then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose ; and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire ; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment...
Page 153 - The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you...
Page 67 - Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
Page 266 - And it came to pass as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them, unto Azekah, and they died ; they were more which died with hailstones, than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Page 148 - These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
Page 144 - Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Page 186 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 92 - Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
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 156 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.