The History of the Hebrew Nation: From Its First Origin to the Present Time |
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Page 18 - a great and mighty nation—" For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken
Page 57 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came oat, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs; but a land of hills and valleys which drinketh water of the rain of heaven.'
Page 452 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments moth-eaten; your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of
Page 462 - For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side.
Page 76 - will by no means clear the guilty : visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth generation.
Page 191 - heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and evil: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people.
Page 81 - Enviest thou for my sake ?—Would to God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them !
Page 191 - at this day. And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king, instead of David my father, and I am but a little child : I know not how to go out or to come in: and thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. Give therefore thy servant
Page 7 - I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet; nor
Page 189 - is not so with God ; yet hath he made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure: for this is all my salvation and desire,