The Kings: Ed., with an Introduction & Notes |
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... and the house of Baasha which followed in the second generation . At first , as already noted , prophecy is on the side of the revolt . But Jeroboam is scarcely secure on his throne before he establishes the worship of the - calves ...
... and the house of Baasha which followed in the second generation . At first , as already noted , prophecy is on the side of the revolt . But Jeroboam is scarcely secure on his throne before he establishes the worship of the - calves ...
Page xi
The third period in the history of the northern kingdom is occupied with the house of Jehu , and the usurping kings that followed . Here the two kingdoms fall away from their temporary rapprochement , and their history moves in ...
The third period in the history of the northern kingdom is occupied with the house of Jehu , and the usurping kings that followed . Here the two kingdoms fall away from their temporary rapprochement , and their history moves in ...
Page xiii
And they rejected his statutes , and his covenant that he made with their fathers , and his testimonies which he testified unto them ; and they followed vanity , and became vain , and went after the nations that were round about them ...
And they rejected his statutes , and his covenant that he made with their fathers , and his testimonies which he testified unto them ; and they followed vanity , and became vain , and went after the nations that were round about them ...
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But the house of Judah followed David . And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months . And Abner the son of Ner , and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul , went out from ...
But the house of Judah followed David . And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months . And Abner the son of Ner , and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul , went out from ...
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And Joab said , As God liveth , if thou hadst not spoken , surely then in the morning the people had gone away , nor followed every one his brother . more . So Joab blew the trumpet , and all. 7 The Kings Be Book VIII.
And Joab said , As God liveth , if thou hadst not spoken , surely then in the morning the people had gone away , nor followed every one his brother . more . So Joab blew the trumpet , and all. 7 The Kings Be Book VIII.
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Page 81 - And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
Page 199 - Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. 6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years...
Page 76 - O Lord my God, Thou hast made Thy servant king instead of David my father ; and I am but a little child : I know not how to go out or to come in.
Page 127 - And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time.
Page 26 - Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For thou didst it secretly : but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
Page 149 - Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead ; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord : and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
Page 55 - David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul...
Page 131 - And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee.
Page 210 - And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
Page 97 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.