| Robert Brown - 1872 - 178 pages
...former, is, nevertheless, alluded to by the prophet Amos ' as ' the Amorite, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks.' Living quietly in a country of extraordinary fertility,2 the Pastors ultimately degenerated into a... | |
| 1872 - 964 pages
...condemned in the house of their god. 'Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like o the Hebrews, as they have been to you : quit yourselve yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 10 Also I brought you up from the... | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg - Bible - 1870 - 636 pages
...father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite." And in Amos, " I destroyed the Amoritf before them, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oak. I led you in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite" H. 9, 10 ; here also the Amorite... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1874 - 200 pages
...condemned* in the house of their god. Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, ' Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was strong as the oaks ; Yet I destroyed his fruit from above, And his roots from beneath. Also I brought you up from the... | |
| David Thomas - 1874 - 790 pages
...No. LXXVII. Subject: GOD AND NATIONS. "Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks ; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. Also I brought you up from the... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1874 - 422 pages
...condemned t in the house of their god. Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was strong as the oaks ; Yet I destroyed his fruit from above, And his roots from beneath. Also I brought you up from the... | |
| Frederic Charles Cook - Bible - 1875 - 628 pages
...elsewhere only in Amos ii. 9; "Yet destroyed I the Amorite from before them, whose height was like ppressor, as if he "were ready *Mniufy. to destroy ? an (cp. on S- '3)i yrt I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath." If Israel fell back into the... | |
| Francis Bourdillon - 1875 - 396 pages
...of the Lord and by His inspiration, " Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks." 5 We trace his remembrance of past dangers in cattle-keeping when he says, " Will a lion roar in the... | |
| Osmond Tiffany - Bible - 1875 - 784 pages
...poetically describes the strength and power of the Amorite, by telling us that his " height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks." It is, indeed, likely that here, as is certainly the case in other places, such * Gen., IT. 21 ; 2... | |
| 1876 - 1200 pages
...the amerced in the house of their God. 9 And I destroyed the Amorite from their face, whom his height as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks ; and I will destrov his fruit from above and his roots from beneath. 10 And I brought you up from... | |
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