 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 pages
...that drew 476 477 swords, to break through even unto the king of Edoiii ; but they could not. Then lie took his eldest son, t;hat should have reigned in...s.tead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the. wall." (2 Kings, iii, 27.) Again, it is said that Ifelak, king of Moab, consulting Balaam, the son... | |
 | 1857 - 924 pages
...that the battle was too sore for him, and that he could not cut his way through the besieging army, took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And Grotefend deciphered an inscription of Nebuchadnezzar which contains... | |
 | Stephen Farley - 1851 - 422 pages
...in the extremity of a hard battle turning against him, that " the king of Moab took his own son, who should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall." 2 Kings, iii. 27. All the human sacrifices in Mexico were offered to the odious and terrible... | |
 | 1851 - 668 pages
...men that drew swords, to break through even* unto the king of Edom: but they could not. 27 Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and II offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Jsrael:... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1852 - 548 pages
...the king of Edom, but failed in the undertaking. As a last experiment to appease his angry gods, " he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his...stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall." Struck with horror at the transaction, the Israelitish host departed for their homes.* * 2 Kings... | |
 | sir George Sinclair (2nd bart.) - 1852 - 818 pages
...offer the fruit of the body for the sin of the soul, and follow the precedent of the king of Edom, who took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering ; but, whether the Lord will or will not be pleased with thousands of rams, and ten thousands of rivers... | |
 | George Bush - 1852 - 268 pages
...actually to have done; and in precisely the same words, joined in the same construction ; ' Then took he his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him (for) a burnt offering, (niir 1ni)S^"l) upon the wall.' These words differ from Jephthah's only in the mood,... | |
 | 1853 - 446 pages
...ward off the affliction of Babylon, something similar to what we read of the King of Moab. " Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall." (2 Kings iii. 27.) NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received Hie communications... | |
 | 1853 - 764 pages
...men that drew swords, to break through even unto the 27 king of Edom: but they conld not. Then 'he s Tract Society"+"'Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)( him^or a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was groat indignation against Israel:8 *and they departed... | |
 | William McGirr - 1854 - 418 pages
...hundred men that drew swords, to break through unto the King of Edom : but they could not. Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall." This event took place, according to Scripture chronologists, 895 years... | |
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Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land. 
