The history of the Old and New Testament attempted in verseJohn Hooke, 1716 - 697 pages |
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... Joab founds a late Retreat : All Night he march'd , the Hoft to Hebron come , And bear his Brother's Corps with joyless Triumphs home . CXLIV . 2 SAMUEL , Chap . III . The Death of Abner . Unhappy that weak Prince , who fear'd by none ...
... Joab founds a late Retreat : All Night he march'd , the Hoft to Hebron come , And bear his Brother's Corps with joyless Triumphs home . CXLIV . 2 SAMUEL , Chap . III . The Death of Abner . Unhappy that weak Prince , who fear'd by none ...
Page 291
... Joab this , who new from Fight return'd , His flaughter'd Brother's Fate he long had mourn'd , . And ftill with deep Revenge he inly burn'd : For Abner on his way advanc'd , he fends , They meet , embrace , and who were greater Friends ...
... Joab this , who new from Fight return'd , His flaughter'd Brother's Fate he long had mourn'd , . And ftill with deep Revenge he inly burn'd : For Abner on his way advanc'd , he fends , They meet , embrace , and who were greater Friends ...
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... Joab led , Who never yet in Battel fhrunk or fled , The reft did brave Abifhai's Virtue head : When Forb thus --- If Syrian Arms prevail , And push the Guards , tho ' never us'd to fail , You from your Wing fhall fpeedy Succours fend ...
... Joab led , Who never yet in Battel fhrunk or fled , The reft did brave Abifhai's Virtue head : When Forb thus --- If Syrian Arms prevail , And push the Guards , tho ' never us'd to fail , You from your Wing fhall fpeedy Succours fend ...
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... Joab , and fent it by the band of Uriah . 15. And he wrote in the letter , Saying , Set ye Uriah in the fore - frent of the hottest battel , and retire ye from him , that he may be fmitten , and die . 16. And it came to pass when Joab ...
... Joab , and fent it by the band of Uriah . 15. And he wrote in the letter , Saying , Set ye Uriah in the fore - frent of the hottest battel , and retire ye from him , that he may be fmitten , and die . 16. And it came to pass when Joab ...
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... Joab . Hat lately pafs'd in Council , Hufhai fends To David's Camp , by two confiding Friends : To Mahanaim , late a Kingly Seat , O're Fordan's Floods they make a swift Retreat ; By old Barzillai met- With Grief at once , and welcom in ...
... Joab . Hat lately pafs'd in Council , Hufhai fends To David's Camp , by two confiding Friends : To Mahanaim , late a Kingly Seat , O're Fordan's Floods they make a swift Retreat ; By old Barzillai met- With Grief at once , and welcom in ...
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Page 47 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 209 - Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? And when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
Page 115 - And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
Page 181 - And Gideon said unto GOD, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said, behold I will put a fleece of wool in the floor : and if the dew • be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
Page 11 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Page 243 - And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to.
Page 73 - 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 37 - And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
Page 273 - Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
Page 267 - Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?