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... command had , out of love , cast his daughter into the jaws of this lion ! What an insolent affront must he needs construe this to be offered by a son to a father , that the father could be made the pander of his own . daughter to his ...
... command had , out of love , cast his daughter into the jaws of this lion ! What an insolent affront must he needs construe this to be offered by a son to a father , that the father could be made the pander of his own . daughter to his ...
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... commands , and ends in the glorious boasts of his fore - promised victory . As it is with faces , so with counsels , that is fair that pleaseth . He that gives the utterance to words , gives also their speed . Favour , both of speech ...
... commands , and ends in the glorious boasts of his fore - promised victory . As it is with faces , so with counsels , that is fair that pleaseth . He that gives the utterance to words , gives also their speed . Favour , both of speech ...
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... command , and more tendering the life of a king , and peace of his country , than the weak affection of a father . I dare not sit judge be- twixt this zeal and that obedience , betwixt the captain and the soldier ; the one was a good ...
... command , and more tendering the life of a king , and peace of his country , than the weak affection of a father . I dare not sit judge be- twixt this zeal and that obedience , betwixt the captain and the soldier ; the one was a good ...
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... command all hearts , will ever be followed by some God had rather glorify himself by a remnant . Great commanders must have active thoughts : David is not so taken up with the embroiled affairs of his state , as not to intend domestic ...
... command all hearts , will ever be followed by some God had rather glorify himself by a remnant . Great commanders must have active thoughts : David is not so taken up with the embroiled affairs of his state , as not to intend domestic ...
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... commands and prospers , and David is fain to smile on that face , whereon he hath , in his secret destination , written the characters of death . CONTEMPLATION V. THE GIBEONITES REVENGED . THE reign of David was most troublesome towards ...
... commands and prospers , and David is fain to smile on that face , whereon he hath , in his secret destination , written the characters of death . CONTEMPLATION V. THE GIBEONITES REVENGED . THE reign of David was most troublesome towards ...
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Page 36 - And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 468 - Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law : and if I perish, I perish.
Page 390 - And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers...
Page 87 - And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. 17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done ? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
Page 322 - Who is on my side? who?" And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses : and he trode her under foot.
Page 206 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Page 459 - And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Page 26 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth: Yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.
Page 202 - Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
Page 375 - In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.