Lectures on Jewish Antiquities: Delivered at Harvard University in Cambridge, A.D. 1802 & 1803 |
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... Israel , the descendants of Shem ; 2d , by the conquest and ex- termination of the Tyrians , Thebans , and Carthagini- ans , who were also Ham's posterity , by the Greeks and Romans , who descended from Japhet ; and 3dly , by the ...
... Israel , the descendants of Shem ; 2d , by the conquest and ex- termination of the Tyrians , Thebans , and Carthagini- ans , who were also Ham's posterity , by the Greeks and Romans , who descended from Japhet ; and 3dly , by the ...
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... Israel . ” This prophetic doom was remarkably verified . For though the land of Canaan was divided among the Is- raelites by the contingency of lots ; yet the tribe of Si- meon had no distinct portion assigned to it , but only a small ...
... Israel . ” This prophetic doom was remarkably verified . For though the land of Canaan was divided among the Is- raelites by the contingency of lots ; yet the tribe of Si- meon had no distinct portion assigned to it , but only a small ...
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... Israel was first set up in the tribe of Judah , in the per- son of David , and continued in that tribe , in a line of regular descent from him till the time of the Babylonish captivity ; after which it still subsisted in the same tribe ...
... Israel was first set up in the tribe of Judah , in the per- son of David , and continued in that tribe , in a line of regular descent from him till the time of the Babylonish captivity ; after which it still subsisted in the same tribe ...
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... Israel , should guard his laws with political sanctions . Such sanctions were peculiarly needful and beneficial to so gross a people , as the Jews , and in a period of the world , when the doc trine of a future retribution was so feebly ...
... Israel , should guard his laws with political sanctions . Such sanctions were peculiarly needful and beneficial to so gross a people , as the Jews , and in a period of the world , when the doc trine of a future retribution was so feebly ...
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... Israel publicly triumph- ed over their idol deities ; he showed that these could neither give nor secure to their votaries life and pros- perity , but that he was the sovereign dispenser of bles- sings to his friends , and of plagues to ...
... Israel publicly triumph- ed over their idol deities ; he showed that these could neither give nor secure to their votaries life and pros- perity , but that he was the sovereign dispenser of bles- sings to his friends , and of plagues to ...
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Page 82 - And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites : and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life : that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 292 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 181 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 21 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 15 - 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 304 - And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 305 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 252 - BLOW ye the trumpet, blow ! The gladly solemn sound, Let all the nations know, To earth's remotest bound, The year of jubilee is come : Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.
Page 293 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 133 - And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.