Scripture biography: or Lives and characters of the principal personages recorded in the Old and New Testament1833 |
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... visitation was full of love and promise , yet there was something in it so awful and tremendous , that it made Jacob afraid , and he said , " How dreadful is this place ! This is none other than the house of GOD ; and this is the gate ...
... visitation was full of love and promise , yet there was something in it so awful and tremendous , that it made Jacob afraid , and he said , " How dreadful is this place ! This is none other than the house of GOD ; and this is the gate ...
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... visitation , which had a tendency to overwhelm all other dis- tresses , the want of bread . Jacob had wealth in abundance , but that could not procure the necessaries of life in this dreadful scarcity . Hearing that there was corn in ...
... visitation , which had a tendency to overwhelm all other dis- tresses , the want of bread . Jacob had wealth in abundance , but that could not procure the necessaries of life in this dreadful scarcity . Hearing that there was corn in ...
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... visitations may befall the righteous in mercy , as well as the wicked in judgment . Job is declared to be the favourite of God , for " in every nation every one that feareth him and worketh righteousness , is accepted of him . " Acts x ...
... visitations may befall the righteous in mercy , as well as the wicked in judgment . Job is declared to be the favourite of God , for " in every nation every one that feareth him and worketh righteousness , is accepted of him . " Acts x ...
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... had fallen from heaven and consumed all the sheep , with his fellow - servants who kept them .. The news of this fearful visitation had scarcely reached his ears before another messenger entered and told him 162 SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHY .
... had fallen from heaven and consumed all the sheep , with his fellow - servants who kept them .. The news of this fearful visitation had scarcely reached his ears before another messenger entered and told him 162 SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHY .
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... visitations were permitted to take place . The reasoning of Elihu had its effect upon Job ; for he made no reply to it , as he had done to the dis- courses of his three friends . Their arguments only served to irritate his wounded mind ...
... visitations were permitted to take place . The reasoning of Elihu had its effect upon Job ; for he made no reply to it , as he had done to the dis- courses of his three friends . Their arguments only served to irritate his wounded mind ...
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Page 72 - And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 69 - Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Page 149 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Go<J of Jacob : (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel...
Page 57 - Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 210 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us ; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Page 327 - So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions ? if the Lord be God, follow him : but if Baal then follow him.
Page 479 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house ; and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 95 - Let people serve thee, And nations bow down to thee: Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 410 - If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear." So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Page 21 - What hast thou done ? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.