| Samuel Carr - 1801 - 390 pages
...away the idols from among " you." And let your's be the noble answer of the same Israelites, — " God forbid that we " should forsake the Lord, to serve other " gods!" S 4 SERMON SERMON XVII. 2 KINGS v. 20 — 27But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said,... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...; and serve ye the Lord. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose ye this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served...that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods. For the Lord our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt from the... | |
| Job Orton - 1805 - 430 pages
...their minds, that they 16 would not give him leave to proceed ; And the people, with great ardour, answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods ; this would be the 17 greatest madness ; we abhor the thought ofaposlacy. For the LORD our God, he... | |
| Richard Steele - 1807 - 238 pages
...and truth. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve. And the people answered and said, GoD forbid that we should forsake the Lord, Joshua xxiv. 14, 16. " What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good... | |
| Richard Watson (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1808 - 156 pages
...the sepulchre, was commonly reported among the Jews until this day. Moses, in 'his old age, had made use of a similar expression, when he put the Israelites...other gods." Joshua urged farther, that God would pot suffer them to worship other gods in fellowship with him : they answered, that " they would serve... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 16 name unto my brethren : in the midst of the congregation will I ; 17 For the LOR D our God, heit is that brought us up, and our fathers, out of the land of Egypt,... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...reader, and let him see which he prefers. " Choose you this day whom you will serve," says Joshua; " whether the gods which your fathers served, that were...said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord. The Lord drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore... | |
| Thomas Cogan - 1812 - 520 pages
...and my house, we will serve the Lord.* The people, under a momentary impulse of pious gratitude, " answered and said, " God forbid that we should forsake .the Lord, to serve other gods; for Jehovah our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from tb.e... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1861 - 626 pages
...and who was about to die, as we read in the subsequent verses of the chapter. The people accordingly said — " God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods." The gods whom their fathers had served beyond the flood, and in Egypt, were mere idols, which could... | |
| 1815 - 880 pages
...gods which your fathers served, that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorrtes, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house...that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods. For the Lord our God, he it is that brought us up, and our fathers, out of the land of Egypt, from... | |
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