The History of the Jews: From the Earliest Period to the Present TimeHarper & Brothers, 1843 |
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Abraham Abram Ahab Ahaz Ahaziah Almighty altar Ammonites appear Arabian army Assyria began Benjamin blood brother called Canaan Canaanites chariots chieftain civil command conquest crime danger daughter David Deity descendants desert district divine dreadful Edom Edomites Egypt Egyptian Elath enemies Ephraim famine fatal father fell fled flocks head Hebrew High Priest holy honour human inhabitants invaders Isaac Israel Israelites Jacob Jehoram Jehu Jephthah Jeroboam Jerusalem Jewish Jews Joab Jordan Joseph Josephus Joshua Judah king kingdom kingdom of Israel Kohath lawgiver Levites Lord Manasseh mercy Moab monarch Mosaic Moses mountain native numbers offered Palestine passed Pekah period Philistines possession priesthood princes promised land prophet put to death race Rehoboam reign religion religious rites royal sacred sacrifice Samaria Saul seized servitude slain slaves solemn Solomon stood stranger Syrians tabernacle temple tent thou throne tion took tribes valley whole wife worship Zebulun
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Page 44 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 27 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him : and they wept.
Page 83 - Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 44 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with, yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Page 44 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Page 65 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 250 - Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria ? Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad ? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah ? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand...
Page 223 - My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke ; my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Page 250 - And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth : and behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine : let us eat and drink ; for to-morrow we shall die.
Page 18 - And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.