The life and writings of Solomon, king of Israel [by P. P. Thoms]. |
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... David had sent unto him . David , therefore , was intent on resenting the insult offered , as he and his men had been a wall unto Nabal , both by night and day . “ Abigail , on being informed of what had occurred , hastened , and took ...
... David had sent unto him . David , therefore , was intent on resenting the insult offered , as he and his men had been a wall unto Nabal , both by night and day . “ Abigail , on being informed of what had occurred , hastened , and took ...
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... David said to Abigail , “ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me ; and blessed be thy advice , and blessed be thou , which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood , and from avenging myself with ...
... David said to Abigail , “ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me ; and blessed be thy advice , and blessed be thou , which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood , and from avenging myself with ...
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... David , the father of Solomon , was a chequered life , full of strifes , contentions , jealousies , wars , and rebellions , which seem to have left him little time for either reflection or devotion . But oh ! how has the Church of God ...
... David , the father of Solomon , was a chequered life , full of strifes , contentions , jealousies , wars , and rebellions , which seem to have left him little time for either reflection or devotion . But oh ! how has the Church of God ...
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... David draw nigh the time of his dissolution , than Adonijah , the son by his wife Haggith , conceived ambitious projects , and exclaimed , “ I will now be king ! ” Adonijah was David's fourth son - a pet boy . It is recorded of him ...
... David draw nigh the time of his dissolution , than Adonijah , the son by his wife Haggith , conceived ambitious projects , and exclaimed , “ I will now be king ! ” Adonijah was David's fourth son - a pet boy . It is recorded of him ...
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... David was not then infirm . Adonijah , on learning that his younger brother would be called to govern Israel , was , doubtless , excited to envy . This unholy feeling might have been fanned by the jealousies existing among the ladies of ...
... David was not then infirm . Adonijah , on learning that his younger brother would be called to govern Israel , was , doubtless , excited to envy . This unholy feeling might have been fanned by the jealousies existing among the ladies of ...
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Page 31 - Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 37 - O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Page 31 - But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers : our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Page 35 - From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised.
Page 43 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house which I have built...
Page 38 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; And be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors ; And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory ? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; Even lift them up, ye everlasting doors ; And the King of glory shall come in.
Page 36 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Page 16 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 8 - And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
Page 60 - And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee: 32.