The Book of Judges: With Map, Notes and IntroductionJohn James Lias |
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... father and mother , Samson's choice of a wife - throwing light as it does upon the position of women , and the marriage customs of the age - the marriage feast and its amusements , the scarcely concealed con- tempt of the dominant race ...
... father and mother , Samson's choice of a wife - throwing light as it does upon the position of women , and the marriage customs of the age - the marriage feast and its amusements , the scarcely concealed con- tempt of the dominant race ...
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... fathers , Origen , Ambrose , Augustine and others , especially the two former , carry out their allegorical treatment of this history in a number of fanciful details . Perhaps the most effective specimen of this kind of allegory is to ...
... fathers , Origen , Ambrose , Augustine and others , especially the two former , carry out their allegorical treatment of this history in a number of fanciful details . Perhaps the most effective specimen of this kind of allegory is to ...
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... father in the regal dignity . This seems the more probable , since no king , after the invasion by Joshua , was in a position to inflict the cruelties which are detailed below . The idea that he was king of Jerusalem derives additional ...
... father in the regal dignity . This seems the more probable , since no king , after the invasion by Joshua , was in a position to inflict the cruelties which are detailed below . The idea that he was king of Jerusalem derives additional ...
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... father of Anak . For the curious mistranslation of the word man ( Adam ) in the Vulgate , followed by our Wiclif , in Josh . xiv . 15 , see note there . Sheshai , Ahiman , and Talmai ] Cf. Josh . xv . 14. Josephus states that after the ...
... father of Anak . For the curious mistranslation of the word man ( Adam ) in the Vulgate , followed by our Wiclif , in Josh . xiv . 15 , see note there . Sheshai , Ahiman , and Talmai ] Cf. Josh . xv . 14. Josephus states that after the ...
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... father a field and she lighted from off her ass ; and 15 Caleb said unto her , What wilt thou ? And she said unto ducted the expedition against Hebron . Caleb's origin is difficult to trace . He is called the Kenezite , or rather ...
... father a field and she lighted from off her ass ; and 15 Caleb said unto her , What wilt thou ? And she said unto ducted the expedition against Hebron . Caleb's origin is difficult to trace . He is called the Kenezite , or rather ...
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Abimelech altar Amorites angel Baal Barak behold Benjamin Bertheau Beth-el Bible book of Judges Canaan Canaanites Chaldee children of Ammon children of Israel Chron Chushan-rishathaim daughter death Deborah deliverance delivered Deut doubt dwelt Edited Ehud Ephraim Ewald Exod father Gibeah Gideon Gilead hand hath Hebrew host inhabitants Israelites Issachar Jael Jehovah Jephthah Jerubbaal Jerusalem Jordan Josh Joshua Judah judged Israel Kings land Levite liers in wait Literally Manasseh Manoah margin means Micah Midian Midianites Mizpeh Moab Moses mount mountain narrative note on ch Numb Palestine passage Philistines probably rendered Samson Shechem shews Shiloh signifies Sihon Sisera slew smote song supposed Targum thou took tribe Tristram unto the LORD valley verse viii Vulgate word translated worship xvii xviii xxii xxiv Zalmunna Zebah
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Page 149 - And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
Page 97 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots ? Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself.
Page 97 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, "Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
Page 148 - And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Page 159 - Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me ; for she pleaseth me well.
Page 113 - And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
Page 168 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Page 131 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 26 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 111 - And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee. This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.