The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel, Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah, Including the Dissertation on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volume 3W. Baynes, 1819 |
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Page xiii
... taken place to prevent it ; for as the twenty- sixth day of the sixth month was a Sabbath , the days going on in their common order ; Levit , xxiii , 24 . C Exod . xx , 10 . : the third day of the seventh month would have PREFACE . XIII ...
... taken place to prevent it ; for as the twenty- sixth day of the sixth month was a Sabbath , the days going on in their common order ; Levit , xxiii , 24 . C Exod . xx , 10 . : the third day of the seventh month would have PREFACE . XIII ...
Page xxiv
... taken to begin the month and the moon to- gether . This was the practice , when the author of the book of Ecclesiasticus wrote ; for he tells us , that from the Moon is the sign of feasts ; and the Jewish writers say , that Moses ...
... taken to begin the month and the moon to- gether . This was the practice , when the author of the book of Ecclesiasticus wrote ; for he tells us , that from the Moon is the sign of feasts ; and the Jewish writers say , that Moses ...
Page xxxii
... taken is so singular , unlike any thing to be met with in any other place of Scripture , notwithstanding the frequent mention of the festival here intended , that I think we cannot safely build upon it . Others derive the word ceseh ...
... taken is so singular , unlike any thing to be met with in any other place of Scripture , notwithstanding the frequent mention of the festival here intended , that I think we cannot safely build upon it . Others derive the word ceseh ...
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... taken no notice of a sentiment of Scaliger , which seems to be admitted by Archbishop Usher , that the ancient Israelites computed their year in twelve months of thirty days each , adding five days at the end of the twelfth month yearly ...
... taken no notice of a sentiment of Scaliger , which seems to be admitted by Archbishop Usher , that the ancient Israelites computed their year in twelve months of thirty days each , adding five days at the end of the twelfth month yearly ...
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... " Numb . xxi , 14 . * See book xii , p . 445 . * John xv , 25 . t * 1 Cor . xiv , 21 . * Joshua x , 13 . greatest liberty taken by me in the supposi- tions I 1 PREFACE . of the particulars which made up the sacred ...
... " Numb . xxi , 14 . * See book xii , p . 445 . * John xv , 25 . t * 1 Cor . xiv , 21 . * Joshua x , 13 . greatest liberty taken by me in the supposi- tions I 1 PREFACE . of the particulars which made up the sacred ...
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Page 140 - Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine : and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Page xxviii - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Page 163 - Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Page 347 - Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Page 257 - And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
Page 385 - When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou...
Page 298 - Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace : And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood ; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Page 298 - But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Page 383 - ... and when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword. But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.
Page 298 - And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.