A short history of the ancient Israelites, enlarged from the Apparatus biblicus of père Lamy, and corrected and improved throughout by A. Clarke [from the tr. by T. Bedford].1802 |
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... king as well as them . He was certainly equal to one of those four kings , whom he defeated with his domestic forces , and the assistance of his three allies . The greatest difference was , that he did not shut himself up within walls ...
... king as well as them . He was certainly equal to one of those four kings , whom he defeated with his domestic forces , and the assistance of his three allies . The greatest difference was , that he did not shut himself up within walls ...
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... king of Egypt . Though husbandry be very antient , the pastoral life is the more perfect . The first was the lot of Cain , the other of Abel . It has something in it more simple and noble , it is less laborious , attaches one less to ...
... king of Egypt . Though husbandry be very antient , the pastoral life is the more perfect . The first was the lot of Cain , the other of Abel . It has something in it more simple and noble , it is less laborious , attaches one less to ...
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Claude Fleury Adam Clarke. kings , and the Messiah himself , were to come * . That of Ephraim held the second rank on ac- count of Joseph . Yet the eldest branches and the heads of each family were most esteemed in every tribe : and this ...
Claude Fleury Adam Clarke. kings , and the Messiah himself , were to come * . That of Ephraim held the second rank on ac- count of Joseph . Yet the eldest branches and the heads of each family were most esteemed in every tribe : and this ...
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... king , was driving oxen , when he received the news of the danger Jabesh Gilead was in * . Every body knows that David was keeping sheep , when Samuel sent to look for him to anoint him king † ; and he returned to his flock after he had ...
... king , was driving oxen , when he received the news of the danger Jabesh Gilead was in * . Every body knows that David was keeping sheep , when Samuel sent to look for him to anoint him king † ; and he returned to his flock after he had ...
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... kings and princes living upon the fruits of their lands and their flocks , and work- ing with their own hands . Hesiod has written a poem on purpose to recommend husbandry , as the only creditable means of subsisting and im- proving ...
... kings and princes living upon the fruits of their lands and their flocks , and work- ing with their own hands . Hesiod has written a poem on purpose to recommend husbandry , as the only creditable means of subsisting and im- proving ...
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Page 219 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 231 - But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Page 143 - And the Lord said unto Moses, " Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Page 242 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die : it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations : And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean...
Page 219 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life.
Page 220 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 179 - Then did they till their ground in peace, and the earth gave her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit The ancient men sat all in the streets, communing together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.
Page 185 - I more : circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews ; as touching the law, a Pharisee ; concerning zeal, persecuting the church ; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Page 139 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us.
Page 259 - And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold : six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.