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... wilderness of Shur . " But Shur is opposed by the inspired writer to Havilah ; and therefore the latter must be the eastern extremity of Arabia , or that part of the country which borders on the Persian gulf . Again , Moses assures us ...
... wilderness of Shur . " But Shur is opposed by the inspired writer to Havilah ; and therefore the latter must be the eastern extremity of Arabia , or that part of the country which borders on the Persian gulf . Again , Moses assures us ...
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... wilderness into independent and hostile societies . This may be inferred from these words , in which they further explain the mo- tive of their undertaking : " lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth . " They seem to ...
... wilderness into independent and hostile societies . This may be inferred from these words , in which they further explain the mo- tive of their undertaking : " lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth . " They seem to ...
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... wilderness , those savage disturbers of the peaceful inhabitant . This was deemed in those times , a public benefit of the first importance . So late as the days of Homer , to deliver the people from the dread and ravages of wild beasts ...
... wilderness , those savage disturbers of the peaceful inhabitant . This was deemed in those times , a public benefit of the first importance . So late as the days of Homer , to deliver the people from the dread and ravages of wild beasts ...
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... wilderness , a land wherein , no man dwelleth , neither doth any son of man pass thereby . " The place thereabout is represented as over- run with serpents , scorpions , and all sorts of venemous and unclean creatures ; so that ...
... wilderness , a land wherein , no man dwelleth , neither doth any son of man pass thereby . " The place thereabout is represented as over- run with serpents , scorpions , and all sorts of venemous and unclean creatures ; so that ...
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... wilderness of Paran ; for the sacred historian mentions them as a people which the tribes of Israel were forbidden to attack in war.m This tract was therefore called emphatically the land of the Amorites , and Sihon the king of it is ...
... wilderness of Paran ; for the sacred historian mentions them as a people which the tribes of Israel were forbidden to attack in war.m This tract was therefore called emphatically the land of the Amorites , and Sihon the king of it is ...
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Page 35 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people...
Page 41 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Page 322 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 457 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Page 24 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Page 191 - The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
Page 46 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 217 - Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Page 354 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah : their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter : Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Page 178 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.