The Captivity of the Jews: And Their Return from BabylonReligious Tract Society, 1840 - 192 pages |
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... peace of the city whither they were carried captive . Many of the Jews were not disposed to believe the communication sent by the prophet . They caused Shemaiah to write to Zephaniah , the Sagan or second high priest at Jerusalem ...
... peace of the city whither they were carried captive . Many of the Jews were not disposed to believe the communication sent by the prophet . They caused Shemaiah to write to Zephaniah , the Sagan or second high priest at Jerusalem ...
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... peace to which they might yet have recourse . The message was one of lamentations , mourning , and woe . And though un- willing to hear the counsels which were for their peace , the prophet was to go to them and tell them , Thus saith ...
... peace to which they might yet have recourse . The message was one of lamentations , mourning , and woe . And though un- willing to hear the counsels which were for their peace , the prophet was to go to them and tell them , Thus saith ...
Page 53
... own words , Dan . iv . 1-3 ; 34-37 ; Nebuchadnezzar the king , unto all people , nations , and languages , that dwell in all the earth ; Peace be 54 NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S PENITENCE . multiplied unto you . I thought F 2 37.
... own words , Dan . iv . 1-3 ; 34-37 ; Nebuchadnezzar the king , unto all people , nations , and languages , that dwell in all the earth ; Peace be 54 NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S PENITENCE . multiplied unto you . I thought F 2 37.
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... peace shall destroy many he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes ; but he shall be broken without hand . Only one incident of Belshazzar's reign is related in Scripture ; it was the closing scene , and exhibits the vileness ...
... peace shall destroy many he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes ; but he shall be broken without hand . Only one incident of Belshazzar's reign is related in Scripture ; it was the closing scene , and exhibits the vileness ...
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... Peace be multi- plied unto you . I make a decree , That in every domi- nion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel ; for he is the living God , and stedfast for ever , and his kingdom that which shall not be ...
... Peace be multi- plied unto you . I make a decree , That in every domi- nion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel ; for he is the living God , and stedfast for ever , and his kingdom that which shall not be ...
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Page 80 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia. the Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 81 - I will go Before thee, And make the crooked places straight : I will break in pieces the gates of brass, And cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 139 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Page 81 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 29 - And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Page 61 - Know, therefore, and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks ; the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself...
Page 71 - He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Page 186 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord ; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 28 - And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them : for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Page 108 - Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye eat, but ye have not enough ; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.