 | Conduct of life - 1855 - 902 pages
...cedars actually are, even at the present day, and he will confess that a fine comparison in Amos 2. 9, " whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks." Let him, after aloag ride in the heat of the sun, sit down under the shade of a cedar, and contemplate the exact conical... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1856 - 750 pages
...actually are, even at the present day, and he will confess thai to be a fine comparison in Amos ii. 9, — G in the shade of a cedar, and contemplate the exact conical form of its top, and the beautiful symmetry... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Egypt - 1856 - 642 pages
...giant race, which had been " destroyed from before Israel " — " the Amorite, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks,." Each successive step of the first patriarchal migration is marked by a halt under one or more of these... | |
 | Alexander Penrose Forbes - Justification - 1857 - 250 pages
...conquest of this nation with the escape from the land of Egypt. " Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks, yet destroyed I his fruit from above and his roots from beneath. Also I brought you up from the land... | |
 | John Eadie - Bible - 1857 - 870 pages
...thy mother an Hlttlte. Amos II, 9. Yet destroyed I the the Amorite before them, whose height was like -18. And I charged your Judges at that time, saying, Hear yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. ARABIA. VOTED FOR ITS KINGS AND ITS... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1858 - 480 pages
...through the prophet Amos, ch. 2:9," Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks." If The Canaanites dwell by the sea. That is, the nation specifically called by this name, Gen. 15 :... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1858 - 498 pages
...through the prophet Amos, ch. 2:9," Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks." If The Canaanites dwell by the sea. That is, the nation specifically called by this name, Gen. 15 :... | |
 | Plague Spot - Great Britain - 1859 - 632 pages
...and Herculaneum preserve them ? No. " 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." Unless we also are so politically... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - Bible - 1862 - 560 pages
...acquainted with the Jehovist. Amos writes : " Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks" (ii. 9), which merely resembles the description in Num. xiii. 32, 33 (an Elohistic portion), but is... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1863 - 498 pages
...father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite." And in Amos, " I destroyed the Amorite 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," (ii. 9, 10;) here also the Amorite... | |
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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. 
