The Historians' History of the World: Israel, India, Persia, Phoenicia, Minor nations of western AsiaHenry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 |
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... mentioned above , fragments of whose work are preserved in the Pentateuch ) , Moses , the child of a Hebrew man and woman of a tribe called Levi , was hidden in an " ark of bulrushes " by the Nile , on account of a royal edict that all ...
... mentioned above , fragments of whose work are preserved in the Pentateuch ) , Moses , the child of a Hebrew man and woman of a tribe called Levi , was hidden in an " ark of bulrushes " by the Nile , on account of a royal edict that all ...
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... mentioned in Judges iii . 8-11 : the oppression of the Israelites by a Jerahmeelite king called Cushan ( properly a race name ) , which was closed by the intervention of a friendly clan of Kenizzite origin called Othniel ( Ethan ...
... mentioned in Judges iii . 8-11 : the oppression of the Israelites by a Jerahmeelite king called Cushan ( properly a race name ) , which was closed by the intervention of a friendly clan of Kenizzite origin called Othniel ( Ethan ...
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... ( mentioned in Egyptian inscriptions ) in what became western Galilee , and may , indeed , at one time have possessed all Galilee , is less probable than the theory that the name is a modification of Ashkhur , derived from a time when ...
... ( mentioned in Egyptian inscriptions ) in what became western Galilee , and may , indeed , at one time have possessed all Galilee , is less probable than the theory that the name is a modification of Ashkhur , derived from a time when ...
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... mentioned , viz . , the northern Aramæans , is not to be relied upon ; it is evident that there has been both interpolation and confusion of names . It is only the latter part that concerns the historian , for it gives the achievement ...
... mentioned , viz . , the northern Aramæans , is not to be relied upon ; it is evident that there has been both interpolation and confusion of names . It is only the latter part that concerns the historian , for it gives the achievement ...
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... mentioned Adullam , Keilah , Carmel and Ziklagall places in the " Negeb . " The last - named place is repre- sented to us as belonging to Achish , king of Gath . But a Philistine suze- rain of an Israelite free - lance is inconceivable ...
... mentioned Adullam , Keilah , Carmel and Ziklagall places in the " Negeb . " The last - named place is repre- sented to us as belonging to Achish , king of Gath . But a Philistine suze- rain of an Israelite free - lance is inconceivable ...
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Page 120 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! how is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary...
Page 122 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 122 - THUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have holden, To subdue nations before him ; And I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut...
Page 63 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.
Page 62 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 62 - And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Page 122 - Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Page 83 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided : they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Page 83 - Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 62 - Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin...