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... eyes , seven lamps , seven stars . It was as God's number that Elijah made Naaman the Syrian wash seven times in the river Jordan , in order to be cleansed of his leprosy . Now though this may not teach us to expect that God will answer ...
... eyes , seven lamps , seven stars . It was as God's number that Elijah made Naaman the Syrian wash seven times in the river Jordan , in order to be cleansed of his leprosy . Now though this may not teach us to expect that God will answer ...
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... eye sight . Thus it is that our blessings will come to us in the way of obedience . We must do as He commands , and He will give as He promises . As the Israelites had to go forward , and in going forward , found the protection they had ...
... eye sight . Thus it is that our blessings will come to us in the way of obedience . We must do as He commands , and He will give as He promises . As the Israelites had to go forward , and in going forward , found the protection they had ...
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... eye to the glory of God . Some may be found wishing for death when all their powers of enjoying life are weakened by age or disease ; but not many who , like Elijah , have one great object of life , and that , to glorify God , and like ...
... eye to the glory of God . Some may be found wishing for death when all their powers of enjoying life are weakened by age or disease ; but not many who , like Elijah , have one great object of life , and that , to glorify God , and like ...
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... eyes and touch- ing his heart with the truths of God's Word ? As then Elijah was assured and comforted by this way of God's addressing him , so that he could thus without fear go out of the cave and listen to the Lord ; so are sin- ners ...
... eyes and touch- ing his heart with the truths of God's Word ? As then Elijah was assured and comforted by this way of God's addressing him , so that he could thus without fear go out of the cave and listen to the Lord ; so are sin- ners ...
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... eyes , they shall put in their hands and shall take away . " Of course this was too much to be borne , it was evident as Ahab said , " this man seeketh mischief . " As is always the case , further submission to unreasonable and ...
... eyes , they shall put in their hands and shall take away . " Of course this was too much to be borne , it was evident as Ahab said , " this man seeketh mischief . " As is always the case , further submission to unreasonable and ...
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Page 149 - My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean?
Page 41 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time.
Page 229 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Page 156 - And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
Page 29 - And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel ; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant : " Go up now, look toward the sea.
Page 168 - For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host : and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Page 219 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace...
Page 285 - For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Page 13 - For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
Page 288 - Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?