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... be a round number . In this way we speak in English of a " score , " or a thousand . " Probably they were not all there together , but at different times . 66 such a prince , if in force during the lifetime 12 MEN OF FAITH .
... be a round number . In this way we speak in English of a " score , " or a thousand . " Probably they were not all there together , but at different times . 66 such a prince , if in force during the lifetime 12 MEN OF FAITH .
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... thousand were slain ; and Adoni - bezek ( lord of Bezek ) himself was captured after a vain attempt to escape by flight . It appears that this heathen chief had not been a stranger to the name and power of the God of Israel ; nor did he ...
... thousand were slain ; and Adoni - bezek ( lord of Bezek ) himself was captured after a vain attempt to escape by flight . It appears that this heathen chief had not been a stranger to the name and power of the God of Israel ; nor did he ...
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... thousand ; for the Lord your God , He it is that fighteth for you . " They had asked and had " " * Stanley , p . 257. " In Ascalon was entrenched the hero of the last gleam of history which has thrown light over the plains of Philistia ...
... thousand ; for the Lord your God , He it is that fighteth for you . " They had asked and had " " * Stanley , p . 257. " In Ascalon was entrenched the hero of the last gleam of history which has thrown light over the plains of Philistia ...
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... thousand other works of Him who " rendereth not unto man an account of His ways . " We recur to the point , that their extirpation was the Israelites ' duty . They were not to judge for themselves in the matter . They were not even to ...
... thousand other works of Him who " rendereth not unto man an account of His ways . " We recur to the point , that their extirpation was the Israelites ' duty . They were not to judge for themselves in the matter . They were not even to ...
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... Is there no modern parallel to this ? Are there not multitudes even now who " fall after the same example of unbelief " ? How has this history been re - enacted a thousand times in the experience both 100 MEN OF FAITH .
... Is there no modern parallel to this ? Are there not multitudes even now who " fall after the same example of unbelief " ? How has this history been re - enacted a thousand times in the experience both 100 MEN OF FAITH .
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Abi-ezer was gathered Ammonites Amorites ancient angel appears army Asher Baal Barak blessed Bochim Book of Judges called Canaan Canaanites children of Ammon chosen Christ Christian Church clothed command courage covenant death Deborah deliverance delivered desert Deut Divine Egypt enemy Ephraim Exod faith father fear fight forsaken Gaza Gideon Gilead God's hand Harosheth hath heart heathen Hebrew holy honour host hundred idol idolatry inhabitants Israel Israelites Israelitish Jabin Jehovah Jehovah-shalom Jephthah Jewish Jordan Josh Joshua Judah Kenites king Kishon land Lord Lord's Manasseh ment mercy Midian Midianites mighty Moses mountains Naphtali narrative nations Nazarite offered Ophrah Palestine period Philistines plain possession priest probably promise prophet repentance sacred sacrifice Samson says servant Sisera soul Spirit strength summoned tents thee thou thousand tion tribes trumpet unbelief unto utter valley valley of Jezreel victory word worship Zebulun
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Page 126 - They fought from heaven; The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. The river of Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon.
Page 189 - When he slew them, then they sought him : and they returned and inquired early after God. 35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the high God their Redeemer.
Page 237 - And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites : and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over ; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite ? If he said, Nay ; then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth : and he said Sibboleth : for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan : and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Page 315 - There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a "N azarite unto God from my mother's womb : if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
Page 51 - And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Page 43 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things : for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you : and the land is defiled : therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Page 233 - But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to despise, or envy, or suspect Whom GOD hath of His special favour raised [373] As their deliverer?
Page 179 - 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.
Page 147 - Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Page 168 - And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth.