The Sacred Books of the Old and New Testaments: The book of Psalms, tr. by J. WellhausenPaul Haupt, Horace Howard Furness Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898 - Bible |
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Abimelech altar Ammonites Amorites answered Arnon Baal Barak Benjamites Beth-el Book of Judges camp Canaan Canaanites chariots citizens of Shechem clan clause concubine conquest Danites Deborah deliverance Deut Deuteronomistic editor Eglon Ehud Ephod Ephraimites Exod father Gaal Gibeah Gideon Gilead gloss hand Harosheth Hazor Hebrew Highlands of Ephraim hundred idol inhabitants Israel Israelites Jabesh Jabin Jael Jephthah Jerubbaal Jerusalem JHVH Jordan Josh Joshua Judah judged Israel Kedesh King of Moab Laish later Levite Manoah Messenger of JHVH Micah's Midian Midianites Mizpah Moab Moabites Mount Tabor Naphtali narrative Notes on Chapters Notes on Judges older oppression original Othniel Palestine perhaps Philistines Plain priest probably Samson Shamgar Shechem Shiloh Sisera spirit of JHVH stood story Syria thee took translation tribes verse Version words Zalmunna Zebah Zebah and Zalmunna Zebulun Zorah ΙΟ
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Page 22 - What is sweeter than honey ? and what is stronger than a lion ? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
Page 18 - Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: "If you give the Ammonites into my hands, "whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD'S, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.
Page 18 - At the end of two months, she returned to her father, and he kept the vow he had made about her.
Page xii - Thus to mince the matter, we thought to savour more of curiosity than wisdom, and that rather it would breed scorn in the Atheist, than bring profit to the godly Reader. For is the kingdom of God become words or syllables? why should we be in bondage to them if we may be free, use one precisely » when we may use another no less fit, as commodiously?
Page 23 - And they spake unto him, saying, No ; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand : but surely we will not kill thee.
Page 33 - And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites. 17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou...
Page xii - Lastly, we have on the one side avoided the scrupulosity of the Puritans, who leave the old Ecclesiastical words, and betake them to other, as when they put washing for Baptism, and Congregation instead of Church : as also on the other side we have shunned the obscurity of the Papists, in their Azimes, Tunike, Rational, Holocausts, Praepuce, Pasche, and a number of such like...
Page 10 - And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
Page xii - ... to an uniformity of phrasing, or to an identity of words, as some peradventure would wish that we had done, because they observe that some learned men somewhere have been as exact as they could that way. Truly, that we might not vary from the sense of that which we had translated before, if the word signified the same thing in both places...
Page 6 - And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.