A New and Complete History of the Holy Bible as Contained in the Old and New Testaments: From the Creation of the World to the Full Establishment of Christianity ; Containing a Clear and Comprehensive Account of Every Remarkable Transaction Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures During a Period of Upward of Four Thousand YearsR. Sears, 1844 - Bible |
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Page 52
... Jacob stood before the Egyptian king , and was asked his age , he replied : " The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years : few and full of evil have the days of the years of my life been , and have not ...
... Jacob stood before the Egyptian king , and was asked his age , he replied : " The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years : few and full of evil have the days of the years of my life been , and have not ...
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... Jacob's journey to the same place expressly informs us that Haran was in Mesopotamia , on which ground the site , with the mention of which we commenced this note , must still be held to have a little the preference , notwithstanding ...
... Jacob's journey to the same place expressly informs us that Haran was in Mesopotamia , on which ground the site , with the mention of which we commenced this note , must still be held to have a little the preference , notwithstanding ...
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... Jacob , to denote ( what he afterward proved ) the supplanter of his brother . As these two children grew up , they became very different in their tempers , and when they arrived at the age of maturity , followed different employments ...
... Jacob , to denote ( what he afterward proved ) the supplanter of his brother . As these two children grew up , they became very different in their tempers , and when they arrived at the age of maturity , followed different employments ...
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... Jacob ( who was probably so instructed by his mother ) refused to comply with his re- quest , unless on the following conditions ; namely , that he would immediately make over to him his birth - right . Esau reflecting on the danger to ...
... Jacob ( who was probably so instructed by his mother ) refused to comply with his re- quest , unless on the following conditions ; namely , that he would immediately make over to him his birth - right . Esau reflecting on the danger to ...
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... Jacob often lived ! Here Samuel made his three sons judges ; and from here Elijah wandered out into the southern desert , and sat down under the rethem , or shrub of broom , just as our Arabs sat down under it every day and every night ...
... Jacob often lived ! Here Samuel made his three sons judges ; and from here Elijah wandered out into the southern desert , and sat down under the rethem , or shrub of broom , just as our Arabs sat down under it every day and every night ...
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Page 515 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 537 - After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down ; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up ; that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Page 498 - Then Judas, which had betrayed Him. when he saw that He was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 40 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 160 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Page 556 - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 83 - And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more ; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Page 328 - Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me ? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
Page 21 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 568 - By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.