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... circumstances connected with their history . The names and history of the other members of Adam's family are consigned to oblivion . No doubt a very simple enclosure , for protection against the wild beasts . A. Ten : Seth , Enos ...
... circumstances connected with their history . The names and history of the other members of Adam's family are consigned to oblivion . No doubt a very simple enclosure , for protection against the wild beasts . A. Ten : Seth , Enos ...
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... circumstance which arose out of it . Sacrifices were common to all nations , and were too well understood as being propitiatory , to require par- ticular description in this part of the history ; especially as under a new dispensation ...
... circumstance which arose out of it . Sacrifices were common to all nations , and were too well understood as being propitiatory , to require par- ticular description in this part of the history ; especially as under a new dispensation ...
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... circumstances , indicative of the period in which Job lived : -The antiquity of manners and customs noticed in the poem , as writing by sculpture , xix . 24 .; computation of his wealth by his flocks and herds , i . 3. xlii . 12 .; his ...
... circumstances , indicative of the period in which Job lived : -The antiquity of manners and customs noticed in the poem , as writing by sculpture , xix . 24 .; computation of his wealth by his flocks and herds , i . 3. xlii . 12 .; his ...
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... circumstance being placed in them all anterior to the creation of man , seems rather to refer to the rebellion of the angels . Noah is identified with the Satyavrata of Hindostan , the Fohi of China , the Xisuthrus of Chaldea , the ...
... circumstance being placed in them all anterior to the creation of man , seems rather to refer to the rebellion of the angels . Noah is identified with the Satyavrata of Hindostan , the Fohi of China , the Xisuthrus of Chaldea , the ...
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... circumstance induced him to take a journey into Egypt ? * The discrepance of the Hebrew , Septuagint , and Sama- ritan Chronology in the epocha between the Deluge and Calling of Abraham , will be seen by the following table , from ...
... circumstance induced him to take a journey into Egypt ? * The discrepance of the Hebrew , Septuagint , and Sama- ritan Chronology in the epocha between the Deluge and Calling of Abraham , will be seen by the following table , from ...
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Aaron Abraham Achish Ahab Ahaz Ahaziah altar Amalek Ammonites angel appears Aristobulus army Babylon became Cæsar called Canaan captivity Chron circumstance commanded consequence covenant Darius daughter David death defeated deliverance Deut Divine earth Egypt Egyptians Elijah epocha Esau Exod Ezra father feast fire forty Gideon Gilead hand heaven Hebrew Herod Hezekiah high priest holy honour hundred Hyrcanus Ibzan idolatry Israel Israelites Jacob Jehoiachin Jehoram Jehoshaphat Jephthah Jerem Jeroboam Jerusalem Jewish Jews Joab Joash Jordan Joshua Judah Judea Judg king kingdom land Levites Lord Moab month Moses Nebuchadnezzar Nehemiah Noah Numb offered Persian Pharaoh Philistines princes prophet Psalm Rehoboam reign returned sacrifice Samuel Saul Saul's Scripture sent servants slain slew smote Solomon sons Syria tabernacle temple thee thousand Tibni took tribes unto viii wherefore wilderness worship xviii xxiii
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Page 40 - And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son : That in blessing I will bless thee...
Page 35 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years. And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Page 99 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 83 - I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 256 - Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. And I will add unto thy days fifteen years...
Page 218 - But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree : and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Page 18 - Saviour: knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Page 186 - But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort?
Page 83 - X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.