 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 834 pages
...to avenge it. But Jacob formed a just estimate of his children's conduct, when he said, " Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ; and their wrath, for it was cruel."] 2. Invincible obduracy — [We might well expect that, after a moment's reflection, these bloody murderers... | |
 | Russell Streeter - 1832 - 116 pages
...united ; for, in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel.' Gen. 49. 6, 7. I listened to both the discourses which you delivered in this town, at the' late meeting,... | |
 | George Burder, Joseph Hughes - 1833 - 1134 pages
...: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they *digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ; and their wrath, for it was cruel : I will divide 'them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. « Dewl.B. I,*c. 6 Ñu SI. 17. • do nol... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...grievously transgressed in the massacre of the Shechemites, and their sentence ran thus, " Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel." ' Accordingly, the tribe of Simeon had only... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 pages
...by a band of their friends and servants, rushed upon them and put them all to the sword. " Cursed be stly look to the end of that which is abolished. But their minds ; I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel."* We no where meet with an instance of more... | |
 | John Cooke (headmaster of the grammar sch. of k. Edw. vi, Birmingham.) - 1835 - 510 pages
...superstition, which have drenched whole countries with blood, under pretence of serving the Lord : " Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. O my soul, enter not thou into their secret ; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united."... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1835 - 400 pages
...words that Jacob spake to his sons, we find this expression concerning Simeon and Levi, 'Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ; and their wrath, for it was cruel.'5 It cannot be imagined that Jacob intended to curse his sons, or bring any imprecation upon... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1836 - 406 pages
...carried their rage too far, and remembered Jacob's words to his sons Simeon and Levi — " Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for...was cruel." But I had now a new task upon my hands; for when the men I carried with me saw the sight, as I had done, I had as much to do to restrain them... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1836 - 422 pages
...which they sought to wipe off, but extorted from him these bitter words on his death-bed : " Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ; and their wrath, for it was cruel." f We never more * Pi. cM. 5, 6, f Gen. xlix. 7. need to " put away all wrath and bitterness and clamour... | |
 | Peter Graham (topographical writer.) - 1836 - 292 pages
...of his brethren. Jacob on his death-bed showed his indignation against Simeon and Levi. " Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel : 1 will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel." Gen. xlix. 5 — 7. In effect, the tribes... | |
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Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 
