 | 1867 - 1216 pages
...swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom ; but they could not. 27 Then he took his cKlcst ed of the sons of Ileth ; there was Abraham buried, and Sarah hi burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel ; and they departed from... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 pages
...swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not. 27 Then he took his eldest sou 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... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1869 - 612 pages
...after a mystical manner." This the history of the king of Moab,5 when he was in great distress in his war against Israel and Judah, informs us of; who then...a burnt-offering upon the city wall. This also the 1 Jcr. xixii. 35. » Ezek. xvi. 20, 21. 3 Wisdom, xii. 4-6 4 Ap. Marsh, p. 7fi, 77. 5 2 Kings, iii.... | |
 | William Drake - 1869 - 90 pages
...bones of the king of Edom into lime. — This should be compared with 2 Kings iii. 27 — "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... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1907 - 1746 pages
...seven hundred men that drew sword, to break through unto the king of Edom : but they could not. Then he rejected the word of the LORD; and what manner of wisdom is in them ? Therefore burnt offering upon the wall. And there came great wrath upon Israel: and they departed from him, and... | |
 | George Carter - 1908 - 352 pages
...seven hundred men that drew sword, 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. And the Israelites departed from him, and returned to their own land.... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1909 - 900 pages
...escape. Goaded to desperation, King Mesha now resolved upon a measure of the last extremity: "Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall." This was done with all solemnity upon the wall of the city in full view... | |
 | Alfred Dwight Sheffield - 1910 - 544 pages
...hundred men that drew swords, to break through even 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. And there came great wrath upon Israel: and they departed from him, and... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Julius August Brewer - 1910 - 600 pages
...hundred 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 offered him/or a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed... | |
 | Louis Wallis - 1912 - 354 pages
...escape. Goaded to desperation, King Mesha now resolved upon a measure of the last extremity: "Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his...stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall. " This was done with all solemnity upon the wall of the besieged city, in full view of the Israelites,... | |
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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. 
