A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament, with Devotional and Practical Reflections, for the Use of Families, Volume 2 |
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Page xi
... evil of sin , and God's high displeasure against it . Sin is so evil and bitter , that every thing which tends to make us sensible of its malignity and mischief , must be of great advan- tage . The sacred histories answer this end ; for ...
... evil of sin , and God's high displeasure against it . Sin is so evil and bitter , that every thing which tends to make us sensible of its malignity and mischief , must be of great advan- tage . The sacred histories answer this end ; for ...
Page xiv
... evil of sin , and God's high displeasure against it ; they show the insufficiency of any profession and privileges to obtain the favour of God , without a suitable life ; they manifest God's favourable regard to the upright , notwith ...
... evil of sin , and God's high displeasure against it ; they show the insufficiency of any profession and privileges to obtain the favour of God , without a suitable life ; they manifest God's favourable regard to the upright , notwith ...
Page 52
... evil work . But the wisdom that is from above is first pure , then peaceable , gentle , and easy to be entreated , full of mercy and good fruits , without partiality , and without hypocrisy CHAP . XII . Miriam and Aaron's sedition , and ...
... evil work . But the wisdom that is from above is first pure , then peaceable , gentle , and easy to be entreated , full of mercy and good fruits , without partiality , and without hypocrisy CHAP . XII . Miriam and Aaron's sedition , and ...
Page 54
... evil , but overcome evil with good . 4. It may sometimes be our duty to animadvert upon the faults of christian friends , when we have reason to hope that God has forgiven them . Miriam was healed , but she was put out of the camp ; so ...
... evil , but overcome evil with good . 4. It may sometimes be our duty to animadvert upon the faults of christian friends , when we have reason to hope that God has forgiven them . Miriam was healed , but she was put out of the camp ; so ...
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... evil report of the land which they had searched , unto the children of Israel , saying , The land , through which we have gone to search it , [ is ] a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof , destroys them with diseases , by reason ...
... evil report of the land which they had searched , unto the children of Israel , saying , The land , through which we have gone to search it , [ is ] a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof , destroys them with diseases , by reason ...
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Aaron Abimelech according altar Amorites Balaam Balak behold blessing border brethren bullock burnt offering Canaan Canaanites CHAP chil children of Israel Christ congregation covenant curse daughters death delivered destroyed dwelt Egypt Eleazar enemies Ephraim evil faith families fathers favour fear Gibeah Gideon Gilead give God's heart heave offering heaven Heshbon holy honour hundred inheritance Israelites Jephthah Jericho Joshua Judah king lambs land lest Levites LORD commanded LORD hath LORD said unto LORD spake unto LORD thy Manasseh meat offering Moab Moses mount nations numbered pass Philistines possess pray priest princes punishment sacrifice Samson saying servant shalt thou Shechem shekels side Jordan Sihon Sisera smote sons spake unto Moses sword tabernacle tenth deals thereof thing thou hast thou mayest thou shalt thousand took tribe tribe of Manasseh unto the children unto the LORD unto thee wilderness words
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Page 174 - If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates : then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose ; and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire ; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment...
Page 153 - The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you...
Page 67 - Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
Page 266 - And it came to pass as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them, unto Azekah, and they died ; they were more which died with hailstones, than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Page 148 - These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
Page 144 - Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Page 186 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 92 - Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
Page 208 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil ; in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Page 156 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.