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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... able to give even now , but because I have promifed to give fuch reafons for all thing in a treatife by itlelf , I fhall put off its expofi- tion till that time . After this , on the fecond day , he placed the heaven over the whole ...
... able to give even now , but because I have promifed to give fuch reafons for all thing in a treatife by itlelf , I fhall put off its expofi- tion till that time . After this , on the fecond day , he placed the heaven over the whole ...
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... faid , " He would be revenged on God , if he fhould have a mind to " drown the world again ; for that he would build a tower too 66 " high for the waters to be able to reach Chap . IV . ] ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS . 21.
... faid , " He would be revenged on God , if he fhould have a mind to " drown the world again ; for that he would build a tower too 66 " high for the waters to be able to reach Chap . IV . ] ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS . 21.
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... able to understand one another . The place wherein they built the tower , is now called Babylon , be caufe of the confufion of that language which they readily understood before ; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel , Conjufon . The ...
... able to understand one another . The place wherein they built the tower , is now called Babylon , be caufe of the confufion of that language which they readily understood before ; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel , Conjufon . The ...
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... able to understand , that fo was the entire nation once called . Thiras alfo called those whom he ruled over Thirafans ; but the Greeks changed the name into Thracians . And fo many were the countries that had the children of Japhet for ...
... able to understand , that fo was the entire nation once called . Thiras alfo called those whom he ruled over Thirafans ; but the Greeks changed the name into Thracians . And fo many were the countries that had the children of Japhet for ...
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... able to preserve its denomination ; it is called Citius , by thofe who ufe the language of the Greeks , and has not by the ufe of that dialect , efcaped the name of Cethim . And fo many nations have the children and grand- children of ...
... able to preserve its denomination ; it is called Citius , by thofe who ufe the language of the Greeks , and has not by the ufe of that dialect , efcaped the name of Cethim . And fo many nations have the children and grand- children of ...
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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.