 | Tobias Smollett - 1776 - 524 pages
...extremities in a fiege, " hej took his eldeft Ton (fays the text) tint (hould have reigned in hit flead. and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall,'' 2 Kings iii. 27. Balak was now likewife in great diflrefs, or in great fear at lead ; for he cculd not but be alarmed... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1805 - 322 pages
...men that drew •vords, to break through even unto the kingdom of Edom ; but they could not. Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his...and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall." , It is shocking beyond expression, that a father should immolate a son ; but what deed is so nefarious... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 534 pages
...to attack /am, the army being weakest there :f but they could not, and 37 viere refiulscd. Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him [for] a burnt offering upon the wall to hit god Chemosh, to secure Ait fervour. And there was groat indignation... | |
 | Henry DIMOCK - 1806 - 284 pages
...offered unto the idols of Canaan : and we read, in the 3d chap, ef-fi Kin«», that the king of Moab " took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering (to Chemosk, the god of the Moabites) upon the \va-ll." And no doubt, as Menochius and... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 434 pages
...happened in his favour. Travels in Greece, p. 244. HARMER, vol. iii. p. 302. No. 900. — iii. 27. Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his...and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall.] In great distress several persons, like the king of Moab, have offered their own children upon their... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 426 pages
...Mare's Explanation of Grand Mystery, p. 86. And as the king of Moab when in distress took his firstborn son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering, 2 Kings iii. 27. so " Hacon king of Norway offered his son in sacrifice, to obtain of Odin the victory... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 pages
...Greece, p. 244. HARMER, vol. iii. p. 302. No. 900. — iii. 27. Tlien he took his eldest son that shcntld have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the ivall.~\ In great distress several persons, like the king of Moab, have offered their own children... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...battery, went about it; and, taking advantage of the fittest place of entry, smote it. III. 27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And, there was great indignation against Israel: and they departedfrom... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...battery, went about it ; and, taking advantage of the fittest place of entry, smote it. , III. 27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departedfrom... | |
 | 1809 - 1152 pages
...break through even unto die king of Edom : but they could not. 27 Then he took his eldest son dial, sake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees ? 12 Then And 'there was great indignation against Israel : And they departed from him, and returned to their... | |
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Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land. 
