| Timothy Dwight - Bible - 1813 - 638 pages
...deliverance from the Babylonish captivity drew near. He did not pray the less, but the more. As soon as he " understood by books the number of the years,...accomplish seventy years in the desolation of Jerusalem, he set his face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fastings and sackcloth... | |
| Missions - 1813 - 500 pages
...Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans ; in the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof...prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications,... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans ; 2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof...prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. 3 And I set my face unto the Lord GOD, to seek by prayer and supplications,... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 pages
...Modes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans ; In the first year of his reign, I Daniel, understood by books the number of the years whereof...prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. And I set my face unto the LORD Goo to seek by prayer and supplications,... | |
| Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1780 - 544 pages
...ix. 2,) that in the year in which he had this vision, which was the first of Darius the Mede, he had understood by books the number of the years whereof the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem;... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 606 pages
...namely, meditation in the Scriptures, and a severe temperance. For in the ninth chapter he tells us, that "he " understood by books the number of the years...accomplish seventy " years in the desolation of Jerusalem." And in the first chapter we have an account of his refusing the luxuries of the regal table, and choosing... | |
| Free thought - 1819 - 654 pages
...which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans. 2. In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood by books, the number of the years whereof...prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. 3. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayers and supplications,... | |
| John Bayford - Second Advent - 1820 - 366 pages
...of Ahasuerus, the prophet Daniel, groaning under the Babylonish captivity, but understanding by the books, the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord spake by Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem,... | |
| John Bayford - 1820 - 364 pages
...of Ahasuerus, the prophet Daniel, groaning under the Babylonish captivity, but understanding by the books, the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord spake by Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem,... | |
| Christianity - 1821 - 740 pages
...hearken to God's servants, the Prophets, which spake to them in his name." (Dan. ix. 6.) — " I, Daniel, understood, by books, the number of the years whereof...Prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem ; and I set my face to the Lord God, to seek, by prayer and supplication,"... | |
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