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... whole clearly understood , and ( so far as the age of the reader allows ) appre- eiated , select portions will be re - perused with equal pleasure , and far more advantage . In offering to parents and teachers a volume of Scripture ...
... whole clearly understood , and ( so far as the age of the reader allows ) appre- eiated , select portions will be re - perused with equal pleasure , and far more advantage . In offering to parents and teachers a volume of Scripture ...
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... whole land before thee ? Separate thyself , I pray thee , from me : if thou wilt take the left hand , then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand , then I will go the left . " Lot chose the valley along which the ...
... whole land before thee ? Separate thyself , I pray thee , from me : if thou wilt take the left hand , then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand , then I will go the left . " Lot chose the valley along which the ...
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... be found there . And he said , I will not destroy it for ten's sake . " But there were not ten righteous men in the whole city , and Sodom was to be destroyed . The angels who had visited Abraham , went on to ABRAHAM . 11.
... be found there . And he said , I will not destroy it for ten's sake . " But there were not ten righteous men in the whole city , and Sodom was to be destroyed . The angels who had visited Abraham , went on to ABRAHAM . 11.
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... very inferior character to Abraham , and did * The whole plain is highly bituminous , and still bears marks of the violent convulsion which is here recorded . not seek to please God first in every thing he 12 THE PATRIARCHS .
... very inferior character to Abraham , and did * The whole plain is highly bituminous , and still bears marks of the violent convulsion which is here recorded . not seek to please God first in every thing he 12 THE PATRIARCHS .
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... whole of his life , He called the name of the place Bethel , Jacob was at first kindly received by his uncle , and offered to serve him ; but Laban refused , saying , though he was his nephew , yet should he not serve him for nothing ...
... whole of his life , He called the name of the place Bethel , Jacob was at first kindly received by his uncle , and offered to serve him ; but Laban refused , saying , though he was his nephew , yet should he not serve him for nothing ...
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Abiathar Abraham Absalom Adonijah Ahimelech altar Amalekites Amorites anointed Araunah Balaam behold blessing brethren brother brought burnt offering called camp Canaan Canaanites cattle CHAPTER children of Israel commanded David death delivered desert Divine Doeg the Edomite earth Egypt Egyptians enemies ephod Esau father feast Gideon hand heaven Hebrew holy honor idolatry Isaac Israelites Jacob Jehovah Jephthah Jerusalem Joab Jonathan Jordan Joseph Joshua Judah king Laban land of Egypt Levites lived LORD hath manner Midian Midianites Moab Moses and Aaron Mount nation pass peace Pharaoh Philistines pray thee priests promised prophet punishment returned sacred sacrifice Samson Samuel Saul Saul's saying sent seven Shechem Sinai Sisera slain slew Solomon sons spake stood Tabernacle tent thine thou hast thou shalt thy servant told took tribes unto Moses unto the LORD unto thee wilderness worship
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Page 374 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 117 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 70 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 209 - THEN THE LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge ? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; For I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Page 17 - And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon Ike wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham ; and he said, Here am I.
Page 112 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 306 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 30 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee : be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 128 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Page 90 - And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush : and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.