A Complete History of the Holy Bible: As Contained in the Old and New Testaments ; Including Also the Ocurrences of Four Hundred Years from the Last of the Prophets to the Birth of Christ, and the Life of Our Blessed Saviour and His Apostles, &c with Copious Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Practical and Devotional, Volume 1W.W. Woodward, 1807 - Bible |
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... lived is difficult to be ascertained , as well as the author . Some say , it was written by himself , others by Moses . These are but con- jectures . It is generally believed that Job lived before Moses , and that his afflictions befel ...
... lived is difficult to be ascertained , as well as the author . Some say , it was written by himself , others by Moses . These are but con- jectures . It is generally believed that Job lived before Moses , and that his afflictions befel ...
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... lived fathers . Among these , in the seventh degree from Adam , lived Enoch , to whom this singular testimony and character was given , That God was so pleased with him , that he translated him immediately to heaven . Enoch * left ...
... lived fathers . Among these , in the seventh degree from Adam , lived Enoch , to whom this singular testimony and character was given , That God was so pleased with him , that he translated him immediately to heaven . Enoch * left ...
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... lived upon vegetables , God having at first appointed herbs and fruits for their food ; after the flood , their fare was enlarged , and they were allowed to eat flesh . Only he excepted blood , and meats strangled , from which the blood ...
... lived upon vegetables , God having at first appointed herbs and fruits for their food ; after the flood , their fare was enlarged , and they were allowed to eat flesh . Only he excepted blood , and meats strangled , from which the blood ...
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... lived sixty years after Abraham's going from Charran : For seventy - five , the number of Abraham's years when he ... lived two hundred and five . But this must certainly proceed from a fault crept into the text of Moses ; and that of ...
... lived sixty years after Abraham's going from Charran : For seventy - five , the number of Abraham's years when he ... lived two hundred and five . But this must certainly proceed from a fault crept into the text of Moses ; and that of ...
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... lived in Sodom , and it may be feared , had learned too much of the licentious- ness of the place . However they might be instigated , it is certain they had a very unnatural design upon their father ; and considering his integrity ...
... lived in Sodom , and it may be feared , had learned too much of the licentious- ness of the place . However they might be instigated , it is certain they had a very unnatural design upon their father ; and considering his integrity ...
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Page 24 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid: and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 307 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 79 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 29 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Page 515 - Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
Page 43 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 212 - Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Page 166 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 176 - And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
Page 83 - And 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.