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... reigned before the flood . Edoranchos is doubtless the same as Enmeduranki , a prehis- toric king of Sippar , a city devoted to the worship of the sun god . A recently found tablet tells that the sun god called Enmeduranki to himself ...
... reigned before the flood . Edoranchos is doubtless the same as Enmeduranki , a prehis- toric king of Sippar , a city devoted to the worship of the sun god . A recently found tablet tells that the sun god called Enmeduranki to himself ...
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... reigned 67 years . 2 Horeb . See note , p . 102 . 3 angel of the Lord . Here , as in several other passages ( see pp . 24 , 192 ) , the " angel of the Lord " proves to be not a messenger from the Lord , but a mani- festation of Jehovah ...
... reigned 67 years . 2 Horeb . See note , p . 102 . 3 angel of the Lord . Here , as in several other passages ( see pp . 24 , 192 ) , the " angel of the Lord " proves to be not a messenger from the Lord , but a mani- festation of Jehovah ...
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... reigned about B. C. 1411-1358 . Centuries before this time Canaan had been subject to Babylonia , and the let- ters show that Babylonian was still the language of diplomacy throughout the region . But at this time Canaan was at least ...
... reigned about B. C. 1411-1358 . Centuries before this time Canaan had been subject to Babylonia , and the let- ters show that Babylonian was still the language of diplomacy throughout the region . But at this time Canaan was at least ...
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... reigned in Hazor ; the cap- tain of whose host was Sisera , which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles . And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord for he had nine hundred chariots of iron ; and twenty years hc mightily oppressed the ...
... reigned in Hazor ; the cap- tain of whose host was Sisera , which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles . And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord for he had nine hundred chariots of iron ; and twenty years hc mightily oppressed the ...
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... reigned three years over Israel , 1 then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of She- chem ; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abime- lech that the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal ...
... reigned three years over Israel , 1 then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of She- chem ; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abime- lech that the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal ...
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Aaron Abimelech Abraham Absalom according Achish Ahab Ahaz Ahaziah Ahikam altar Amorites answered asherah Balaam behold blessed brethren brought burnt offering captain chariots children of Israel commanded covenant Daniel daughter David delivered dwelt earth Edom Egypt Egyptians Esther evil gate Haman heard hearkened heart heaven Hezekiah high places host Jacob Jehoiakim Jehoshaphat Jeremiah Jeroboam Jerusalem Jews Joab Joseph Joshua Kareah king of Assyria king of Babylon king of Israel king of Judah kingdom land of Egypt Lord hath Lord said unto Moab Mordecai Nebuchadnezzar pass Pharaoh Philistines pray thee priest princes prophet saith the Lord Samaria Samuel Saul say unto sent Shechem shew silver slew smote Solomon sons spake unto stood sword Syria temple thereof thing thou hast thou shalt thy servant told took unto Moses unto the king unto the Lord unto thee Wherefore wife words Zedekiah
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Page 12 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud...
Page 340 - Hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Page 12 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 503 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 66 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 31 - By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son : that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Page 10 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 19 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 27 - That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee : shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Page 1 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.