The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel, Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah: Including the Dissertation on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volume 1W. Baynes, 1819 |
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... Shinaar , Elam , and three other kings with them . But the latter of these objections will be answered in its place ; and the former , I conceive , can have no weight with the learned , who know what a variety of names are given to the ...
... Shinaar , Elam , and three other kings with them . But the latter of these objections will be answered in its place ; and the former , I conceive , can have no weight with the learned , who know what a variety of names are given to the ...
Page 88
... Shinaar is said to be from the East ; but a journey from the Gordyæan hills to Shinaar would be from the North . Secondly , Noah is not once mentioned in the following part of Moses's history ; a strong intimation that he neither came ...
... Shinaar is said to be from the East ; but a journey from the Gordyæan hills to Shinaar would be from the North . Secondly , Noah is not once mentioned in the following part of Moses's history ; a strong intimation that he neither came ...
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... Shinaar . Secondly , This account is favoured by old heathen testimonies . " Two hundred and fifty years before Ninus , " says Portius Cato , " the earth was over- flowed with waters , and mankind began again in Saga Scythia . " Now ...
... Shinaar . Secondly , This account is favoured by old heathen testimonies . " Two hundred and fifty years before Ninus , " says Portius Cato , " the earth was over- flowed with waters , and mankind began again in Saga Scythia . " Now ...
Page 90
... Shinaar , is agreeable to the Chaldean traditions about the deluge ; which inform us , that Xisuthrus ( for so they called Noah ) came out of the ark with his wife and daughter , and the pilot of the ark , and offered sacrifice to GOD ...
... Shinaar , is agreeable to the Chaldean traditions about the deluge ; which inform us , that Xisuthrus ( for so they called Noah ) came out of the ark with his wife and daughter , and the pilot of the ark , and offered sacrifice to GOD ...
Page 91
... Shinaar . For in a few ages , in the days of Ninus Martinii Hist . Sinica , p . 11 . Le Compte , Mem . of China , p . 313 . ' Gen. vii and viii . . Couplet's Confucius , Procem . p . 38 , 76 . and Semiramis , about three hundred years ...
... Shinaar . For in a few ages , in the days of Ninus Martinii Hist . Sinica , p . 11 . Le Compte , Mem . of China , p . 313 . ' Gen. vii and viii . . Couplet's Confucius , Procem . p . 38 , 76 . and Semiramis , about three hundred years ...
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Page 261 - And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Page 271 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 75 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Page 119 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 82 - And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood ; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Page 272 - Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 281 - Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
Page 269 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 75 - By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Page 82 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.