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Abimelech Acts Ahab Ahaziah allusion altar Ammonites Amos ancient apostle army Assyria Babylon Bible called Canaan captivity Christ Christian Chron Church David death denote Deut divine east eastern Edom Egypt Exod Ezek Ezra father God's gospel Greek Hebrews Hence holy hundred idol Israelites Jehovah Jeroboam Jerusalem Jewish Jews Joab John John xix Jordan Josh Joshua Judæa Judah Judg kingdom Kings xv land Lord Luke Matt ment miles Moab modern Moses Mount Nebuchadnezzar passage Paul Persia Philistines priest probably prophecy prophet Prov province reign Roman sacred writers Samaria Saul Saviour Scriptures Shechem signifies supposed Syria tabernacle Temple Testament tion tree tribe tribe of Gad tribe of Judah viii word worship xlix xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxix xxvi xxvii xxxi xxxii xxxiv
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Page 124 - And afterward they desired a king : and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
Page 5 - And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
Page 2 - It contains a minute history of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; the...
Page 172 - At a distance from the sea, forgotten by the emperors, encompassed on all sides by the Turks, her valiant citizens defended their religion and freedom above fourscore years; and at length capitulated with the proudest of the Ottomans. Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect; a column in a scene of ruins; a pleasing example, that the paths of honour and safety may sometimes be the same.
Page 141 - ... leathern skins ; in this way they preserve it till the following year, and use it as they do honey, to pour over their unleavened bread, or to dip their bread into. I could not learn that they ever made it into cakes or loaves.
Page 224 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
Page 224 - I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Page 54 - Judea, have been repeated for ages in almost every part of the habitable world, in the remotest islands of the ocean, among the forests of America, or the sands of Africa.
Page 100 - Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David : and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
Page 159 - seem as if they had met to form an enclosure" for this peaceful basin — "they rise round it like the edge of a shell to guard it from intrusion. It is a rich and beautiful field in the midst of these green hills — abounding in gay flowers, in fig-trees, small gardens, hedges of the prickly pear; and the dense rich grass affords an abundant pasture.