Genesis and ProphetsJ. Munroe, 1840 |
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Page vii
... thou- sand years ; and I withhold my assent equally from this proposition , on the same ground of the insufficiency of the evidence advanced in its behalf . To place the books of Kings , for instance , on a level with those of Moses ...
... thou- sand years ; and I withhold my assent equally from this proposition , on the same ground of the insufficiency of the evidence advanced in its behalf . To place the books of Kings , for instance , on a level with those of Moses ...
Page 65
... thou seest , to thee will I give it , and to thy seed for ever . " * He had become sole proprietor of the soil by a peaceable arrangement with Lot , the associate of his emigration ; he had surveyed it by traversing its whole extent ...
... thou seest , to thee will I give it , and to thy seed for ever . " * He had become sole proprietor of the soil by a peaceable arrangement with Lot , the associate of his emigration ; he had surveyed it by traversing its whole extent ...
Page 89
... thou shalt rove abroad , thou mayest break his yoke from off thy neck ; " that is , only by leaving the parental home , mayest thou escape from his superiority ; here his superiority will henceforward be maintained . " Why should I be ...
... thou shalt rove abroad , thou mayest break his yoke from off thy neck ; " that is , only by leaving the parental home , mayest thou escape from his superiority ; here his superiority will henceforward be maintained . " Why should I be ...
Page 97
... Thou shalt have this son also " ( 17 ) ; rather , " this child also shall be a son for thee " ; that is , the encouragement offered to Rachel was , that the hope would be fulfilled which she had expressed in xxx . 24.- · Benoni ( 18 ) ...
... Thou shalt have this son also " ( 17 ) ; rather , " this child also shall be a son for thee " ; that is , the encouragement offered to Rachel was , that the hope would be fulfilled which she had expressed in xxx . 24.- · Benoni ( 18 ) ...
Page 112
... thou shalt bury me in their burying - place " ( xlvii . 30 ) ; a desire which Jacob cannot be supposed to have entertained , unless he expected his de- scendants to repossess the country ; the passage , accordingly , gives rise to a ...
... thou shalt bury me in their burying - place " ( xlvii . 30 ) ; a desire which Jacob cannot be supposed to have entertained , unless he expected his de- scendants to repossess the country ; the passage , accordingly , gives rise to a ...
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Abimelech Abraham according Amos ancient appears authority book of Joshua book of Judges book of Kings books of Samuel called Canaan chapter character comp composition connexion David death Deity Deut divine Egypt Ephraim fact father Genesis Gideon Gilgal hand Hebrew Hosea hundred inhabitants instance interpretation Isaac Israelites Israelitish Jacob Jehovah Jephthah Jewish Jews Jordan Joseph Josh Joshua Judah judged Israel king land language Later Prophets Levite Lord means miraculous Mizpeh Moses narrative nation Numb origin passage Philistines poetry portion present priest probable question race reason record reference reign remark representation represented respecting Samuel Saul sense Septuagint Shechem statement supernatural supposed territory Testament thee thing thou thousand tion tradition tribe of Benjamin tribe of Ephraim tribes unto verse words writer xviii xxiv xxvi Zebulun
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Page 33 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 80 - And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns : and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Page 107 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, ° before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Page 193 - And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man.
Page 321 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard : My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 153 - And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein : only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
Page 320 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 212 - In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Page 198 - And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; that he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Page 273 - It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king : for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments.