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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... gave to one was Night , and the other he called Day ; and he named the beginning of light and the time of reft , the Evening and the Morning . And this was indeed the first day . But Mofes faid it was one day ; the caufe of which I am ...
... gave to one was Night , and the other he called Day ; and he named the beginning of light and the time of reft , the Evening and the Morning . And this was indeed the first day . But Mofes faid it was one day ; the caufe of which I am ...
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... gave name to the Elifians , who were his fub- jects ; they are now the Eolians . Tharfus to the Tharfians ; for fo was Cilicia of old called ; the fign of which is this , that the nobleft city they have , and a metropolis alfo , is ...
... gave name to the Elifians , who were his fub- jects ; they are now the Eolians . Tharfus to the Tharfians ; for fo was Cilicia of old called ; the fign of which is this , that the nobleft city they have , and a metropolis alfo , is ...
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... gave them provifion in abundance ; and as they were feafting , he began to praife him , and to blefs God for fubduing his enemies under him . And when Abram gave him the tenth part of his prey , he accepted of the gift . But the king of ...
... gave them provifion in abundance ; and as they were feafting , he began to praife him , and to blefs God for fubduing his enemies under him . And when Abram gave him the tenth part of his prey , he accepted of the gift . But the king of ...
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... gave thanks to God for thele bleflings ; and then he , and all his family , and his fon Ifmael , were circumcifed immediate- ly ; the fon being that day thirteen years of age , and he ninety- nine . CHAP . XI . How God overthrew the ...
... gave thanks to God for thele bleflings ; and then he , and all his family , and his fon Ifmael , were circumcifed immediate- ly ; the fon being that day thirteen years of age , and he ninety- nine . CHAP . XI . How God overthrew the ...
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... gave them to the damfel , by way of acknowledgment , and as a reward for her kindness in giving him water to drink ; faying , It was but jult that the thould have them , becaule fhe was fo much more obliging than any of the reft . She ...
... gave them to the damfel , by way of acknowledgment , and as a reward for her kindness in giving him water to drink ; faying , It was but jult that the thould have them , becaule fhe was fo much more obliging than any of the reft . She ...
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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.