The Olive Branch ...1831 - 308 pages |
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... God spoke to his people Israel from Mount Sinai , were , " I am the Lord thy God who out of the land of Egypt : brought thee up thou shalt have But Israel were no other gods before me . a stiff - necked and rebellious people . From the ...
... God spoke to his people Israel from Mount Sinai , were , " I am the Lord thy God who out of the land of Egypt : brought thee up thou shalt have But Israel were no other gods before me . a stiff - necked and rebellious people . From the ...
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... God , to have his mighty work of delivering them out of Egypt a- scribed to that lifeless image ! but such was the fact . They said , " these be thy gods , O Israel , which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt . " When God gave them ...
... God , to have his mighty work of delivering them out of Egypt a- scribed to that lifeless image ! but such was the fact . They said , " these be thy gods , O Israel , which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt . " When God gave them ...
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... God's own heart , which does not mean that his conduct in every other respect was faultless ; but with respect to the besetting sin of the people , their proneness to idol worship , his heart was perfect with the Lord his God . Hence ...
... God's own heart , which does not mean that his conduct in every other respect was faultless ; but with respect to the besetting sin of the people , their proneness to idol worship , his heart was perfect with the Lord his God . Hence ...
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... God appointed to supplant his son with the ten tribes , he shewed how idolatry had blinded his heart , in which folly had now taken the place of wisdom ; for he thought to frustrate God's declared purpose , by killing Jeroboam . " And ...
... God appointed to supplant his son with the ten tribes , he shewed how idolatry had blinded his heart , in which folly had now taken the place of wisdom ; for he thought to frustrate God's declared purpose , by killing Jeroboam . " And ...
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... God , who foresaw this , gave him solemn warning against it , and promised , that if he would walk before him as David had done , he would build him a sure house , as he had promised to David ; that is , he would esta- blish the kingdom ...
... God , who foresaw this , gave him solemn warning against it , and promised , that if he would walk before him as David had done , he would build him a sure house , as he had promised to David ; that is , he would esta- blish the kingdom ...
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Page 5 - And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David : if this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
Page 16 - He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. 9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; '"and confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, " saying, 'Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance/ "when they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
Page 180 - Whom a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years...
Page 15 - Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
Page 102 - I am Alpha and. Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Page 20 - Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day ; and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Page 29 - Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 162 - So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man : for the Lord fought for Israel.
Page 5 - And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did ; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
Page 302 - Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people : and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: 15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him ; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him. 16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him.