The Old Testament NarrativeAlfred Dwight Sheffield Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910 - 510 pages |
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Page xiv
... Jerusalem , which till then had separated Judah from the tribes to the north , and by making that his capital he averted the sectional jealousies that would have attached to a royal seat either north or south . He broke the power of the ...
... Jerusalem , which till then had separated Judah from the tribes to the north , and by making that his capital he averted the sectional jealousies that would have attached to a royal seat either north or south . He broke the power of the ...
Page xvii
... Jerusalem . The re- sult bore out his trust . A plague broke out in the Assyrian army , and Sennacherib raised the siege . This event impressed the Hebrew imagination as showing Jerusalem to be the favored abode of Jehovah . He had left ...
... Jerusalem . The re- sult bore out his trust . A plague broke out in the Assyrian army , and Sennacherib raised the siege . This event impressed the Hebrew imagination as showing Jerusalem to be the favored abode of Jehovah . He had left ...
Page xviii
... Jerusalem ; and , in 597 , forced its surrender , deported ten thousand of its citizens into Babylonia , and made Zedekiah its tributary king . Egypt , however , again became Judah's evil genius . In spite of Jeremiah's protests , Judah ...
... Jerusalem ; and , in 597 , forced its surrender , deported ten thousand of its citizens into Babylonia , and made Zedekiah its tributary king . Egypt , however , again became Judah's evil genius . In spite of Jeremiah's protests , Judah ...
Page xx
... Jerusalem , collected the annals and literary re- mains of their country . To the combined prophetic narrative they now added from these sources , writing in connective pas- sages and comments , until they had given the Mosaic law its ...
... Jerusalem , collected the annals and literary re- mains of their country . To the combined prophetic narrative they now added from these sources , writing in connective pas- sages and comments , until they had given the Mosaic law its ...
Page xviii
... Jerusalem. Its inhabitants looked for a divine deliverance, but Jeremiah had advanced in religious insight beyond Isaiah's belief of a century before that Jerusalem was inviolable. He now proclaimed that Jehovah would give over His ...
... Jerusalem. Its inhabitants looked for a divine deliverance, but Jeremiah had advanced in religious insight beyond Isaiah's belief of a century before that Jerusalem was inviolable. He now proclaimed that Jehovah would give over His ...
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Aaron Abimelech Abraham Absalom Achish Ahab Ahaziah altar Amorites answered asherah Baal Babylon Balaam behold Ben-hadad blessed bread brethren brother brought called Canaan captain chariots children of Israel commanded covenant daughter David delivered dwelt earth Edom Egypt Egyptians Elijah Elisha ephod evil fled heard hearkened heaven host Isaac Jacob Jehoiakim Jehoshaphat Jehovah Jehu Jeremiah Jeroboam Jerubbaal Jerusalem Joab Jonathan Jordan Joseph Joshua king of Assyria king of Israel king of Judah king's land of Egypt Lord hath Lord said unto Midian Mizpeh Moab Moses pass Pharaoh Philistines pray thee priest princes prophet reigned saith the Lord Samaria Samuel Saul say unto sent Shechem shew slew smote Solomon sons spake unto stood sword Syria thereof thing thou hast thou shalt thy father thy servant told took unto Moses unto the king unto the Lord unto thee Wherefore wife woman word