An Old Testament Commentary for English Readers: Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, EstherCharles John Ellicott Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1883 |
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... chronicler qualifies this general statement by adding that Jotham did not , like his father , invade the Holy Place . ( Comp . 2 Chron . xxvii . 2 , with 2 Chron . xxvi . 16. ) ( 35 ) Howbeit the high generalises this statement ...
... chronicler qualifies this general statement by adding that Jotham did not , like his father , invade the Holy Place . ( Comp . 2 Chron . xxvii . 2 , with 2 Chron . xxvi . 16. ) ( 35 ) Howbeit the high generalises this statement ...
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... chronicler's designation of Cyrus and Darius as " kings of Persia , " indicates that he lived and wrote after the fall of the Persian monarchy . The reckoning by " daries " in 1 Chron . xxix . 7 does not prove authorship during the ...
... chronicler's designation of Cyrus and Darius as " kings of Persia , " indicates that he lived and wrote after the fall of the Persian monarchy . The reckoning by " daries " in 1 Chron . xxix . 7 does not prove authorship during the ...
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... chronicler's designation of Cyrus and Darius as " kings of Persia , " indicates that he lived and wrote after the fall of the Persian monarchy . The reckoning by " daries " in 1 Chron . xxix . 7 does not prove authorship during the ...
... chronicler's designation of Cyrus and Darius as " kings of Persia , " indicates that he lived and wrote after the fall of the Persian monarchy . The reckoning by " daries " in 1 Chron . xxix . 7 does not prove authorship during the ...
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... chronicler's day the political inde- pendence of Israel was a thing of the past ; and that the religion of the Law was the most precious survival from the great catastrophe which had finally shattered the nation , and the principle of ...
... chronicler's day the political inde- pendence of Israel was a thing of the past ; and that the religion of the Law was the most precious survival from the great catastrophe which had finally shattered the nation , and the principle of ...
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... chronicler often refers to this work for fuller information in cases where the narrative in the existing Book of Kings is even briefer than his own . ( Comp . 2 Chron . xxvii . with 2 Kings xv . 32—38 . ) 66 The references to prophetic ...
... chronicler often refers to this work for fuller information in cases where the narrative in the existing Book of Kings is even briefer than his own . ( Comp . 2 Chron . xxvii . with 2 Kings xv . 32—38 . ) 66 The references to prophetic ...
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Page 115 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 81 - And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword ; and I, even I only, am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Page 116 - And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
Page 36 - Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee...
Page 21 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 80 - And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
Page 323 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Page 111 - Is it well with thee ? is it well with thy husband ? is it well with the child ? And she answered, .It is well.
Page 78 - Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
Page 21 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol : and his fame was in all nations round about.