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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Page 15
... leave + children behind him , who imitat- ed his virtues . All these proved to be of good difpofitions . They alfo inhabited the fame country without diffentions , and in an happy condition , without any misfortunes falling upon them ...
... leave + children behind him , who imitat- ed his virtues . All these proved to be of good difpofitions . They alfo inhabited the fame country without diffentions , and in an happy condition , without any misfortunes falling upon them ...
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... leave off for the time to come to require fuch punishments , the effects of fo great wrath , for their future wicked actions , and efpecially on account of thy prayers . But if I fhall at any time fend tempefts of rain in an ...
... leave off for the time to come to require fuch punishments , the effects of fo great wrath , for their future wicked actions , and efpecially on account of thy prayers . But if I fhall at any time fend tempefts of rain in an ...
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... leave that country ; and at the command , and by the affiftance of God , he came and liv- ed in the land of Canaan . And when he was there fettled , he built an altar , and performed a facrifice to God . 2. Berofus mentions our father ...
... leave that country ; and at the command , and by the affiftance of God , he came and liv- ed in the land of Canaan . And when he was there fettled , he built an altar , and performed a facrifice to God . 2. Berofus mentions our father ...
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... leave to enter in- to converfation with the moil learned among the Egyptians . From which converfation , his virtue and his reputation be- came more confpicuous than they had been before . 2. For whereas the Egyptians were formerly ...
... leave to enter in- to converfation with the moil learned among the Egyptians . From which converfation , his virtue and his reputation be- came more confpicuous than they had been before . 2. For whereas the Egyptians were formerly ...
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... leave thee at my death the " fucceffor to my dominion ; but fince it was by God's will " that I became thy father , and it is now his will that I relin- quith thee , bear this confecration to God with a generous mind ; for I refign thee ...
... leave thee at my death the " fucceffor to my dominion ; but fince it was by God's will " that I became thy father , and it is now his will that I relin- quith thee , bear this confecration to God with a generous mind ; for I refign thee ...
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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.