Cyclopædia of biblical literature, abridged [by J. Taylor] from the larger work [ed.] by J. Kitto1849 |
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... reign B.C. 957 , in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam , king of Israel ; and he reigned three years . At the commencement of his reign Abijah made a vigorous attempt to bring back the ten tribes to their allegiance . In this he failed ...
... reign B.C. 957 , in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam , king of Israel ; and he reigned three years . At the commencement of his reign Abijah made a vigorous attempt to bring back the ten tribes to their allegiance . In this he failed ...
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... reign was to destroy his brothers , seventy in number , being the first example of a system of barbarous state policy of which there have been frequent instances in the East . Only one , the youngest , named Jotham , escaped ; and he ...
... reign was to destroy his brothers , seventy in number , being the first example of a system of barbarous state policy of which there have been frequent instances in the East . Only one , the youngest , named Jotham , escaped ; and he ...
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... reign shows that weakness of character in a king may sometimes be as injurious in its effects as wickedness . Many of the evils of his reign may be ascribed to the close connection which he formed with the Phoenicians . The wife of Ahab ...
... reign shows that weakness of character in a king may sometimes be as injurious in its effects as wickedness . Many of the evils of his reign may be ascribed to the close connection which he formed with the Phoenicians . The wife of Ahab ...
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... reign the enemies of the Jews wrote an accu- sation against them , the result of which is not mentioned . The Persian king here meant seems to be the immediate successor of Cyrus , the frantic tyrant Cambyses , who came to the throne ...
... reign the enemies of the Jews wrote an accu- sation against them , the result of which is not mentioned . The Persian king here meant seems to be the immediate successor of Cyrus , the frantic tyrant Cambyses , who came to the throne ...
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... reign in the same year of his reign , Xerxes returned to Susa with the mortification of his defeat , and sought to forget himself in pleasure ; -- not an unlikely occasion for that quest for fair virgins for the harem ( Esth ii . 2 ) ...
... reign in the same year of his reign , Xerxes returned to Susa with the mortification of his defeat , and sought to forget himself in pleasure ; -- not an unlikely occasion for that quest for fair virgins for the harem ( Esth ii . 2 ) ...
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Page 300 - And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed, and went behind them ; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them : And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel ; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these : so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 373 - For this child I prayed ; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him : Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD ; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD.
Page 26 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Page 334 - Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.
Page 350 - And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants : and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Page 281 - Now therefore thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
Page 280 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening: and he drank of the brook.
Page 208 - Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos ; and I of Cephas ; and I of Christ.
Page 322 - And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you...
Page 293 - And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who ? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou earnest, and have blessed him ? yea, and he shall be blessed.