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... Jewish people from a destruction devised against them by Haman , their bitter enemy , which Esther , being a Jewess , and * 1 Chron . xxix . 29 . In the favoured wife of the Persian king , was enabled 6 OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY .
... Jewish people from a destruction devised against them by Haman , their bitter enemy , which Esther , being a Jewess , and * 1 Chron . xxix . 29 . In the favoured wife of the Persian king , was enabled 6 OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY .
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Henry Edward J. Howard (hon.) the favoured wife of the Persian king , was enabled to procure for them . The book of Job affords a memorable example of patience under severe afflictions , in the person of the Arabian Job , as well as a ...
Henry Edward J. Howard (hon.) the favoured wife of the Persian king , was enabled to procure for them . The book of Job affords a memorable example of patience under severe afflictions , in the person of the Arabian Job , as well as a ...
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... wife , and they shall be one flesh . " + In this state of sim- plicity and innocence , unconscious of temptation or of shame , were they placed by their Maker in the garden which he had planted eastward in Eden , to dress it and to keep ...
... wife , and they shall be one flesh . " + In this state of sim- plicity and innocence , unconscious of temptation or of shame , were they placed by their Maker in the garden which he had planted eastward in Eden , to dress it and to keep ...
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... wife's transgression , was now desirous to save himself by throwing the main burthen of it upon her . Such is the heart of man ! Can we sufficiently distrust its purposes ? Can we watch the thoughts that arise out of it too carefully ...
... wife's transgression , was now desirous to save himself by throwing the main burthen of it upon her . Such is the heart of man ! Can we sufficiently distrust its purposes ? Can we watch the thoughts that arise out of it too carefully ...
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... wife's name Eve , the mother of all living . " Thus we see that the faith of Adam was fixed upon a righteous , and , because righteous , a victorious and ever - living Redeemer : as far as the revelation went , he was a believer in ...
... wife's name Eve , the mother of all living . " Thus we see that the faith of Adam was fixed upon a righteous , and , because righteous , a victorious and ever - living Redeemer : as far as the revelation went , he was a believer in ...
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Page 79 - And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau, thy firstborn ; I have done according as thou badest me, arise I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Page 220 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 36 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 4 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.
Page 261 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, And shall call his name Immanuel.
Page 84 - O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee...
Page 43 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 263 - And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots : " And the Spirit of the Lord s'hall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord...
Page 220 - And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Page 18 - And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.