The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measuresFor Thomas and Andrews, Boston, and Isaiah Thomas, Jun., Worcester, 1809 |
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... should consider the Divine Nature , and upon the contem- plation of God's operations , should thereby imitate the best of all patterns , so far as it is possible for human nature to do , and to en- deavor to follow after it ; neither ...
... should consider the Divine Nature , and upon the contem- plation of God's operations , should thereby imitate the best of all patterns , so far as it is possible for human nature to do , and to en- deavor to follow after it ; neither ...
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... should be pure from wickednefs , and cut- ting fhort their lives , and making their years not fo many as they formerly lived , but tone hundred and twenty only , he turned the dry land into fea ; and thus were all thefe men de- ftroyed ...
... should be pure from wickednefs , and cut- ting fhort their lives , and making their years not fo many as they formerly lived , but tone hundred and twenty only , he turned the dry land into fea ; and thus were all thefe men de- ftroyed ...
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... should have a fon , and that his pofterity fhould be very numerous , infomuch , that their number should be like the ftars . When he heard that , he offered a facrifice to God , as he commanded him . The manner of the facrifice was this ...
... should have a fon , and that his pofterity fhould be very numerous , infomuch , that their number should be like the ftars . When he heard that , he offered a facrifice to God , as he commanded him . The manner of the facrifice was this ...
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... should have a fon by Sarai , and commanded that his name fhould be Ifaac ; and fhewed him , that from this fon fhould fpring great nations and kings , and that they fhould obtain all the land of Canaan by war , from Sidon to Egypt . But ...
... should have a fon by Sarai , and commanded that his name fhould be Ifaac ; and fhewed him , that from this fon fhould fpring great nations and kings , and that they fhould obtain all the land of Canaan by war , from Sidon to Egypt . But ...
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... should have what he wanted in abun- dance ; but that if he defigned to go away , he should be hon- ourably conducted , and have what foever fupply he wanted when he came thither . Upon his faying this , Abraham told him that his ...
... should have what he wanted in abun- dance ; but that if he defigned to go away , he should be hon- ourably conducted , and have what foever fupply he wanted when he came thither . Upon his faying this , Abraham told him that his ...
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Abfalom Abimelech Accordingly affiftance againſt Ahab alfo alſo altar Amaziah Ammonites Antiq army Babylon becauſe befides Benhadad brought caft called Canaan Canaanites caufe CHAP commanded cubits David death defired deftroyed deftruction Egypt Egyptians enemies facrifices faid fame father feaft feems felf fend fent fervants feven fhall fhewed fhould fight filver fince firft flain flew fome foon foretold ftill ftones fuch fuffer fuppofe gave hath Hebrews himſelf honour houfe houſe hundred Ifrael Ifraelites Jeroboam Jerufalem Jews Joab Jofephus Jofephus's king king's kingdom land laws Mofes moft moſt multitude obferved occafion paffed perfon perfuaded Philiftines pleaſed pofterity prefent preferve priests promifed prophet punishment reafon refolved reft reign Samaria Saul Solomon Syria tabernacle temple thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thoufand told took tribe tribe of Judah uſe whofe wicked wife worship
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Page 15 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And, that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars...
Page 24 - For of the four sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Chus; for the Ethiopians, over whom he reigned, are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites.
Page 375 - ... the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man...
Page 16 - For many angels" of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.