 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims : all of them were expressed by name. 21 ^f Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might...and for our little ones, and for all our substance. 22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the... | |
 | 1826 - 1036 pages
...Lévites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims : all of Ihem were expressed by name. / 21 U Then I proclaimed 26 7Published by Cummings, Hilliard, and Crocker & Brewster"! Wilbur Hervey" Hervey Wilbur( 22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horscn.cn to help us against the... | |
 | Jonathan Law Pomeroy - Sermons, American - 1826 - 332 pages
...SERMON IX. FAST SERMON. EZRA viii, 21. Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that tee might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of...and for our little ones, and for all our substance. NOT far from eighty years after the proclamation of Cyrus, releasing the Jews from captivity, and directing... | |
 | Joseph Fincher - 1827 - 438 pages
...he was God.-- . ,-• THE PRAYER OF EZRA AND HIS COMPANIONS. EZRA viii. 21—23. Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might...and for our little ones, and for all our substance. For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy... | |
 | John Struthers - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1827 - 736 pages
...when the Rev. Mr. Clark, minister of the Tron church, preached from Ezra viii. 21. " And I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might...and for our little ones, and for all our substance," and pursuing the idea of his text with more zeal than judgment, having descanted upon the efficacy... | |
 | 1827 - 1446 pages
...Lévites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims : all of them were expressed by name. 21 Ц Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might...our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for nur little ones, and for all our substance. 22 For I was ashamed to reauire of the king a band of soliers... | |
 | John Struthers - 1828 - 708 pages
...when the Rev. Mr. Clark, minister of the Tron church, preached from Ezra viii. 21. " And I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might...and for our little ones, and for all our substance," and pursuing the idea of his text with more zeal than judgment, having descanted upon the efficacy... | |
 | Walter Scott - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1829 - 372 pages
...held, and a popular preacher made choice of a text from Ezra, ch. viii. v. 2 1, " Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might...and for our little ones, and for all our substance." Addressing himself to the people, who were already sufficiently irritated, the preacher told them that... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1829 - 520 pages
...and they were smitten before Israel." (1 Sam. vii. 6.) So Ezra: " I proclaimed a fast at the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our...a right way for us, and for our little ones ; and he was entreated of us." (viii. 21.) So Nehemiah: " I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven, and... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 1012 pages
...expressed by name. 21 11 Then I proclaimed* fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might sfflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way...and for our little ones, and for all our substance. 22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the... | |
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For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way : because we had spoken unto the king, saying, " The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him ; but his power and his wrath... 
