Narrative Episodes from the Old TestamentMaud Elma Kingsley, Frank Herbert Palmer Palmer Company, 1910 - 209 pages |
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... choosing their words . the translators of the Bible went directly back to the two dead languages which furnished the original elements of the living literary xii INTRODUCTION Form of the Old Testament Language of the English Bible.
... choosing their words . the translators of the Bible went directly back to the two dead languages which furnished the original elements of the living literary xii INTRODUCTION Form of the Old Testament Language of the English Bible.
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... dead lan- guage is fixed ; a Latin or Anglo - Saxon word must express the same idea a thousand years hence that it expressed a thou- sand years ago ; hence it is that the language of the English Bible , although it was old when first ...
... dead lan- guage is fixed ; a Latin or Anglo - Saxon word must express the same idea a thousand years hence that it expressed a thou- sand years ago ; hence it is that the language of the English Bible , although it was old when first ...
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... Dead Sea . 5. Two cities at the south end of the Dead Sea . his tent toward Sodom ; but the men of Sodom FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.
... Dead Sea . 5. Two cities at the south end of the Dead Sea . his tent toward Sodom ; but the men of Sodom FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.
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... Dead Sea where his descendants became the nation Edom . Jacob , or Israel , as he is also called , had twelve sons , of whom the two youngest , Joseph and Benjamin , were his favor- ites . When our story opens , Benjamin was but a child ...
... Dead Sea where his descendants became the nation Edom . Jacob , or Israel , as he is also called , had twelve sons , of whom the two youngest , Joseph and Benjamin , were his favor- ites . When our story opens , Benjamin was but a child ...
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... Joseph understood them ; for he spake unto them by an interpreter . And he turned himself about from them , and wept ; and re- 1. i . e . He is dead . turned to them again , and communed with them , 32 NARRATIVE EPISODES.
... Joseph understood them ; for he spake unto them by an interpreter . And he turned himself about from them , and wept ; and re- 1. i . e . He is dead . turned to them again , and communed with them , 32 NARRATIVE EPISODES.
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Page 104 - It hath fully been shewed me all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thine husband : and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 47 - And he said, Draw not nigh hither : put off thy shoes from off thy feet ; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Page 166 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Page 151 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage.
Page 136 - And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it : and, behold, the half was not told me : thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
Page 84 - 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?
Page 47 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 74 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amor. itos before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.
Page 164 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 152 - Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God : and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.