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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... taken another turn , and their whole study and contrivance was , how to gratify their inordinate passions . This universal depravity of mankind so offended the Almighty , that , as the sacred historian informs us , he " repented that he ...
... taken another turn , and their whole study and contrivance was , how to gratify their inordinate passions . This universal depravity of mankind so offended the Almighty , that , as the sacred historian informs us , he " repented that he ...
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... taken till the river became an enemy to the city ; and in the third year of the siege , the river , being swollen with continual rains , overflowed part of the city , and broke d the wall for twenty furlongs . Then the king " ( Sarda ...
... taken till the river became an enemy to the city ; and in the third year of the siege , the river , being swollen with continual rains , overflowed part of the city , and broke d the wall for twenty furlongs . Then the king " ( Sarda ...
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... taken up their residence somewhere between Sidon and Gerar , and Admah and Zoboim ; those places being the boundaries of the land they pos- sessed . Thus we find that , in the first dispersion of the people over the world , the de ...
... taken up their residence somewhere between Sidon and Gerar , and Admah and Zoboim ; those places being the boundaries of the land they pos- sessed . Thus we find that , in the first dispersion of the people over the world , the de ...
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... taken place under the Divine government upon earth . This is the country where the chief patriarchs walked with God-- where the theocracy of Israel was established - where the prophets received most of their divine inspira- tions ...
... taken place under the Divine government upon earth . This is the country where the chief patriarchs walked with God-- where the theocracy of Israel was established - where the prophets received most of their divine inspira- tions ...
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... taken , and be considered as having properly discharged the business with which he was intrusted . These matters being settled , Eliezer ( for that was the name of this trusty servant ) set out on his embassy , attended by a number of ...
... taken , and be considered as having properly discharged the business with which he was intrusted . These matters being settled , Eliezer ( for that was the name of this trusty servant ) set out on his embassy , attended by a number of ...
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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.