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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... given them by their first founders ; but fome have loft them alfo , and fome have only admitted certain changes in them , that they might be the more intelligible to the inhabitants . And they were the Greeks who became the authors of ...
... given them by their first founders ; but fome have loft them alfo , and fome have only admitted certain changes in them , that they might be the more intelligible to the inhabitants . And they were the Greeks who became the authors of ...
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... given them , are hardly to be difcovered , yet a few there are which have kept their denominations entire : For of the four fons of Ham , time has not at all hurt the name of Chus ; for the Ethi- opians , over whom he reigned , are even ...
... given them , are hardly to be difcovered , yet a few there are which have kept their denominations entire : For of the four fons of Ham , time has not at all hurt the name of Chus ; for the Ethi- opians , over whom he reigned , are even ...
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... given after the manner following . They put each others hands under each others thighs ; then they called upon God as the witness of what was to be done . He alfo fent such prefents to thofe that were there , as were in efteem , on ...
... given after the manner following . They put each others hands under each others thighs ; then they called upon God as the witness of what was to be done . He alfo fent such prefents to thofe that were there , as were in efteem , on ...
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... given him leave ta marry thus , for he was not pleased with contracting any alli- ance with the people of that country ; but not caring to be uneafy to his fon , by commanding him to put away thele wives , he refolved to be filent . 5 ...
... given him leave ta marry thus , for he was not pleased with contracting any alli- ance with the people of that country ; but not caring to be uneafy to his fon , by commanding him to put away thele wives , he refolved to be filent . 5 ...
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... given him of God , and of the bleffings for which their fa- ther prayed ; and that this was the occafion of his coming hither , as his mother had commanded him to do : for we are all ( fays he ) brethren one to another , but our mother ...
... given him of God , and of the bleffings for which their fa- ther prayed ; and that this was the occafion of his coming hither , as his mother had commanded him to do : for we are all ( fays he ) brethren one to another , but our mother ...
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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.