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... rain upon the earth . " And she went , aud did according to the saying of Elijah : and she , and he , and her house , did eat many days . " And the barrel of meal wasted not , neither did the cruse of oil fail , according the word of ...
... rain upon the earth . " And she went , aud did according to the saying of Elijah : and she , and he , and her house , did eat many days . " And the barrel of meal wasted not , neither did the cruse of oil fail , according the word of ...
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... epistle , he says , " The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much . Elias was a man sub- ject to like passions as we are , and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain , and it rained 6 ELIJAH AND THE.
... epistle , he says , " The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much . Elias was a man sub- ject to like passions as we are , and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain , and it rained 6 ELIJAH AND THE.
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... rain , and the earth brought forth her fruit . " Now , we learn from this what we should not have otherwise known , that when Elijah told the people of Israel that there was to be no rain for three years , he had been pray- ing to God ...
... rain , and the earth brought forth her fruit . " Now , we learn from this what we should not have otherwise known , that when Elijah told the people of Israel that there was to be no rain for three years , he had been pray- ing to God ...
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... rain , although at harvest time when such a thing used not to happen naturally . Such is an instance of the power of prayer , the power of " the fervent prayer of a righteous man . " What encouragement to ask what we will at the hands ...
... rain , although at harvest time when such a thing used not to happen naturally . Such is an instance of the power of prayer , the power of " the fervent prayer of a righteous man . " What encouragement to ask what we will at the hands ...
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... rain for three years , we read the word of the Lord came unto him : " Get thee hence and turn thee eastward , and hide thyself by the brook Cherith that is before Jordan , and it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook , and I have ...
... rain for three years , we read the word of the Lord came unto him : " Get thee hence and turn thee eastward , and hide thyself by the brook Cherith that is before Jordan , and it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook , and I have ...
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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?