| James Foote - 1849 - 698 pages
...and Esau:* Jacob " bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept." So also, " Joseph fell upon his brother Benjamin's * Gen. xxxiii. 3, xlv. 14.... | |
| 1849 - 360 pages
...over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him : and they wept. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women, and the children, and said, Who... | |
| William Henry Bartlett - 1849 - 324 pages
...to propitiate him by a present. He next crossed the ford of the Jabbok. Esau now approached, " and ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and he said, Who... | |
| David M'Conaughy - 1850 - 420 pages
...meeting of Jacob, and Esau are so interesting and lovely, that I transcribe them in part, — " And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him : and they wept : and he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women, and children, and said who are... | |
| Francis Busteed Ashley - 1851 - 188 pages
...brother. Esau's violence is checked, but Jacob's love and liberality turn his heart to tenderness ; " Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him : and they wept." What an affecting reconciliation ! We know not which to admire most, the kisses... | |
| Walter Macon Lowrie - 1851 - 494 pages
...therefore, that which he prayed for, and when he met his brother, the lion was changed into a lamb. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept, Gen. \x\iii. 4. It is a sublime thing to pray. Even on earth, when a subject is... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1851 - 396 pages
...importunate prayer. On the day following the midnight struggle of Jacob, these brothers met, " and Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him; and they wept." Here is the answer to Jacob's prayer; here is the delightful issue of a controversy... | |
| Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 250 pages
...over before them, and bowed himself to the ground eeven times, until he came near to his brother. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept." — GEN. xxxii. 1, 9, 11, 22, 23; xxxiii. 1-4. THE journey of Jacob from Padan-aram... | |
| 1852 - 274 pages
...that morning, Jacob arose and met his brother, bowing himself to the ground seven times before him, Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him ; and they wept. Mutual explanations and salutations followed. Esau returned unto Seir, and Jacob... | |
| Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1852 - 926 pages
...forgiven one another ; and," continuing in the words of the scripture explanation written in the page, ' " Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.' That is a nicer picture, Mary, than that of Cain and Abel, for Abel there is dead,... | |
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