| Peter Royston - 1873 - 96 pages
...prophet Isaiah, in allusion to that custom, threatens them that they should be left ' as a beacon on the top of a mountain and as an ensign on a hill,' (chap. xxx. 17). And in like manner Jeremiah alarms them by saying, ' set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem,... | |
| sir Edward Strachey (3rd bart.) - 1874 - 508 pages
...you be swift. One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee : till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. is And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he... | |
| Sir Edward Strachey - 1874 - 504 pages
...yon be swift. One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee : till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. is And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he... | |
| Robert Haldane - 1874 - 874 pages
...Canaan, Isa. xliii. 10, 12, xliv. 8, and are His witnesses in their rejection, and in being ' lefi as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill,' Isa. xxx. 17, so shall they be His witnesses in their restoration. In God's treatment of them we see... | |
| 1875 - 948 pages
...to this sycamine tree " (buke xvii. G). 88. Cana in Galilee (compare John i. 45 and rxi. 2). 89. " Till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain" (Isaiah xxx. 17). 90. Gen. тт. 17. 91. "Having many things to write unto yon, I would not write with... | |
| 1877 - 994 pages
...refers to fire-signals, the existence of which is further shown by the figure used by Isaiah (.30) : " As a beacon upon the top of a mountain and as an ensign on a hill ;" so that when the prophet Jeremiah admonished the children of Benjamin to " blow the trumpet in Tekoa... | |
| Isaiah (the prophet) - 1877 - 186 pages
...shall flee at the 17 rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee ; till ye be left as a post upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill. And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be 1s gracious to you, and therefore will he rise up,... | |
| David Logan Shirres - 1879 - 768 pages
...you be swift ; one thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one — at the rebuke of five shall ye flee, till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign upon an hill. " Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy."... | |
| William Jay - 1879 - 642 pages
...pursue you be swift. One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee, till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign upon a hill." In opposition to this, the man will feel a composedness of mind, as David did, who said,... | |
| E. W. Bodley - 1880 - 518 pages
...you be swift. One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee : till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. And therefore will the LORD wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He... | |
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