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... true God , and manifests a submission to his will , and a devotedness to his service , that might well put many professing Christians to shame . Educated among a people notorious for their abandoned profligacy and indifference to the ...
... true God , and manifests a submission to his will , and a devotedness to his service , that might well put many professing Christians to shame . Educated among a people notorious for their abandoned profligacy and indifference to the ...
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... True it is , that good names have no virtue in them to make men better , nor names without significance to make any 1 HUGHES'S Female Characters of Holy Writ , ii . 26. 1846 . 2 Professor BUSH , in his Notes on Judges . 3 RICHARD ...
... True it is , that good names have no virtue in them to make men better , nor names without significance to make any 1 HUGHES'S Female Characters of Holy Writ , ii . 26. 1846 . 2 Professor BUSH , in his Notes on Judges . 3 RICHARD ...
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... true that intelligence travels with wonderful slowness in the East , —a slowness incredible to us , with our newspapers , rail- ways , and telegraphs . Letter - writing was then but little prac- tised . Indeed , in all the Scripture ...
... true that intelligence travels with wonderful slowness in the East , —a slowness incredible to us , with our newspapers , rail- ways , and telegraphs . Letter - writing was then but little prac- tised . Indeed , in all the Scripture ...
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... his appreciation of at least the motive of the proceeding , must be regarded as stamping its true character , when he emphatically declared , ' All the city of my people do know that thou art a virtuous woman The Levirate Law . 35.
... his appreciation of at least the motive of the proceeding , must be regarded as stamping its true character , when he emphatically declared , ' All the city of my people do know that thou art a virtuous woman The Levirate Law . 35.
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... true prosperity of all his servants lies . He has fixed our eyes upon the treasures of heaven , and has taught us to garner up all our hopes there . Yet He has not shortened his own hand , nor precluded himself from allowing his ...
... true prosperity of all his servants lies . He has fixed our eyes upon the treasures of heaven , and has taught us to garner up all our hopes there . Yet He has not shortened his own hand , nor precluded himself from allowing his ...
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Abner ancient appear army authority become brought called cause character circumstances conduct considered course crown danger David death divine doubt duty earth East enemies established expression fact father favour feeling field followed force gave give given ground hand head heart Hebrew holy honour important instance interest Israel Israelites Joab Jonathan judge kind king kingdom knew known land less look Lord manner matter means mind nature never object occasion offered once passed person Philistines possession present priests probably prophet reason received regard reign remained remarkable rendered respect sacred Samuel Saul seems servant sons spirit supposed taken thee things thou thought throne tion town tribes true woman women
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Page 15 - 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 120 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : he will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen ; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 305 - 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 106 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Page 226 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 206 - Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock. And I went out after him, and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth ; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear ; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
Page 364 - And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive.
Page 56 - Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Page 430 - I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Page 107 - ... Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or •whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.