The Prophet and His ProblemsC. Scribner's Sons, 1914 - 244 pages |
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Ahab Ahaz Ahijah Amaziah Amos Ashurbanipal Assyria Baalim Babylon Bible called century B. C. chapter clan Cyrus Cylinder death Deut diblaim divine early prophets Egypt Egyptian Elijah Elisha ethics exile experience Ezek Ezekiel fact faith false four hundred furnished gods Gomer hand heart Hebrew prophets hopes Hosea idea II Kings individual interpretation Ipuwer Isaiah Israelites Jehoshaphat Jeremiah Jeroboam Jerusalem Judah justice King kingdom land literature Marduk marriage ment Messianic Micah Micaiah mind moral narrative nation Old Testament oracle phetic Philistines point of view political prediction present priest proph prophecy Prophets of Israel punishment Ramoth-Gilead recognised regarding religion religious repentance revolt Samaria Samuel Saul Scribners seems seer Semitic Sennacherib sins sion social solidarity sought soul spirit story Syria thee things thou thought tion true truth Urartu utterances weh's wife woman word Yahweh York
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Page 154 - So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son : come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
Page 71 - Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon: And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah...
Page 103 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it ; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 90 - And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth : and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
Page 53 - I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Page 75 - When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Page 44 - But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
Page 41 - Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets com'ing down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: and the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
Page 154 - Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Page 227 - Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?