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... tion of a just he spoke would be realised . With the spirit of a true spy he had Bp . gained a pretty full report . ( 47 ) king bowed himself , in agreement with them , and reverent response to their prayer . ( 48 ) mine eyes , etc ...
... tion of a just he spoke would be realised . With the spirit of a true spy he had Bp . gained a pretty full report . ( 47 ) king bowed himself , in agreement with them , and reverent response to their prayer . ( 48 ) mine eyes , etc ...
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... tion of the person to whom he wishes to speak , he generally says oru - kealve - materam , i.e. one request only , to show he is not going to give him much trouble , and to ask for many things . Adonijah said to Bathsheba , " turn not ...
... tion of the person to whom he wishes to speak , he generally says oru - kealve - materam , i.e. one request only , to show he is not going to give him much trouble , and to ask for many things . Adonijah said to Bathsheba , " turn not ...
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James Comper Gray. B.C. 1015 . the deposi- tion of Abiathar send immediately and have him despatched , though we cannot but say that it had been much more to his commendation had he showed more clemency , and spared his life . 26-30 ...
James Comper Gray. B.C. 1015 . the deposi- tion of Abiathar send immediately and have him despatched , though we cannot but say that it had been much more to his commendation had he showed more clemency , and spared his life . 26-30 ...
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... tion of Joab a " The body was buried in funeral state at his own property in the hills overhang- ing the Jordan valley . " -- Stanley . " God himself had declared that ' blood defileth the land , and that the land could not be cleansed ...
... tion of Joab a " The body was buried in funeral state at his own property in the hills overhang- ing the Jordan valley . " -- Stanley . " God himself had declared that ' blood defileth the land , and that the land could not be cleansed ...
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... tion , and acquaintance with the human heart , if not of his extraordinary and supernatural wisdom . There are several v . 26. " If in the similar decisions recorded by heathen writers . Suetonius , in his parental love be Life of the ...
... tion , and acquaintance with the human heart , if not of his extraordinary and supernatural wisdom . There are several v . 26. " If in the similar decisions recorded by heathen writers . Suetonius , in his parental love be Life of the ...
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Ahab Ahaz Ahaziah altar ancient Anec Athaliah B.C. cir Baal Baasha beauty Benhadad Bible blessing C. H. Spurgeon called CHAPTER chariot Christ Christian Church comp David death Divine Edom Elijah Elisha evil faith father fear Gehazi Gesenius Gibeon give glory God's gold hand heart heaven Hezekiah holy honour horses idolatry Israel Jehoahaz Jehoram Jehoshaphat Jehovah Jehu Jeroboam Joash Judah Keil king king's kingdom Kitto live Lord ment mercy mind nature ness never peace Pekah Percy Anec person poss praise pray prayer priests prince prob prophet Rehoboam reign religion Samaria Sennacherib servants Simeon Solomon soul spirit stones Syrian temple thee things thou throne tion viii word Wordsworth worship xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxvi
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Page 220 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Page 180 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 85 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said: Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.
Page 215 - That, to the observer, doth thy history Fully unfold: Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 124 - Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues Have humbled to all strokes. That I am wretched Makes thee the happier. Heavens, deal so still. Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he does not feel, feel your power quickly; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough.
Page 94 - Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Page 194 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 165 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 120 - Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick : and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
Page 227 - It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made Man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.