Conversations on the Bible, by a ladyHenry Colburn, 1824 - 437 pages |
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... person can now determine which is the more correct . Some suppose the rainbow to have always appeared under the same circumstances in which we behold it at the present day , and that it was merely pointed out on the present occasion ...
... person can now determine which is the more correct . Some suppose the rainbow to have always appeared under the same circumstances in which we behold it at the present day , and that it was merely pointed out on the present occasion ...
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... person , who should deliver mankind from the curse in- curred by disobedience , both on him , and for his sake , on the earth which he inhabited . Lamech , for example , exclaims on the birth of his son , Noah , " this same shall ...
... person , who should deliver mankind from the curse in- curred by disobedience , both on him , and for his sake , on the earth which he inhabited . Lamech , for example , exclaims on the birth of his son , Noah , " this same shall ...
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... persons , and dutiful sons , be a 66 servant of servants to his brethren . " FANNY . Then Ham , I suppose , did not deserve a bles- sing ? MRS . M. You are right . The supreme Disposer of events is always just . Ham had himself a bad ...
... persons , and dutiful sons , be a 66 servant of servants to his brethren . " FANNY . Then Ham , I suppose , did not deserve a bles- sing ? MRS . M. You are right . The supreme Disposer of events is always just . Ham had himself a bad ...
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... then prevailed . Nimrod is the first person mentioned in this period , who founded a king- dom . He began his reign by building the stupendous city of Babylon , on the Euphrates , FANNY . What was the primitive language ? MRS . 18.
... then prevailed . Nimrod is the first person mentioned in this period , who founded a king- dom . He began his reign by building the stupendous city of Babylon , on the Euphrates , FANNY . What was the primitive language ? MRS . 18.
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... persons of probity , that they had actually seen pillars , and other fragments of buildings , in the water near the ... person at this time , for we read of his taking three hundred and eighteen trained servants , born in his house , to ...
... persons of probity , that they had actually seen pillars , and other fragments of buildings , in the water near the ... person at this time , for we read of his taking three hundred and eighteen trained servants , born in his house , to ...
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Aaron Abimelech Abraham afflicted altar amongst Amorites army Assyria Babylon Balaam became behold blessing brethren brother brought called Canaan captivity CATHERINE CHARLES chief commanded covenant daughter David death Deity delivered divine earth Egypt Elisha enemies Esau Ezra FANNY father favour glory hand hath heart heathens heaven Hebrew holy honour hundred inhabitants Isaac Israel Israelites Jabesh-gilead Jacob Jehovah Jephthah Jeroboam Jerusalem Jews Joab Joseph Joshua Judah king king's kingdom land Levites lived Lord Medes mercy messenger miracle Moab monarch Moses mother Mount Mount Seir nation Nebuchadnezzar Nineveh offered Pharaoh Philistines pious present priests prince promise prophecy prophet punishment received refused reign religion royal sacred sacrifice Samson Saul scripture sent servant Shechem Sisera Solomon sons strangers Syria Tabernacle temple thee thou shalt throne tion tribes unto whilst whole wife wilderness worship Zedekiah
Popular passages
Page 415 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 172 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Page 290 - What portion have we in David ? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse : to your tents, O Israel : now see to thine own house, David.
Page 417 - The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 333 - Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land ; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Page 297 - And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
Page 149 - The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall hearken...
Page 434 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 130 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his ! And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me?
Page 316 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day ; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee : Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.