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Adaiah affliction Akkub Ammonite Appendix Artaxerxes ballat beautiful beneath better blessed bosom brought called captivity cast cause commandments covenant curse Cyrus daughter of Sanballat desolation disobedience divine dwell Eliashib enemies evil eyes Ezra fathers favour fearful feast feeling felt gates glory God's governor grief hand happiness heart of Manasseh high priest holy city hope Horonite iniquity Israel Israelites Jeru Jerusalem Jewish Jews Joiada Judah judgments king labours land Levites lips lonely and weep look lowly Maachah marriage ment mercy Meshullam miah mind Moses Mount Gerizim nasseh Nehe Nehemiah ness Nicazo once passed Pedaiah Persian pious prayer rejoicing religion rulers sacred sacrifice Samaria Samaritans Sanballat the Horonite Scriptures Shecaniah Sichem sins sorrow sought soul spirit spoke strange nations strange wives suffering temple tender thee things thou tion Tirshatha Tobiah transgression trespass unto the Lord wife worship wrath Zeruah Zerubbabel Zion
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Page 146 - I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of Hosts."* The
Page 148 - if the fall of the Jews be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fulness ? For if the casting away of them he the reconciling of the world, what shall the
Page 210 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron : and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayst
Page 149 - in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Eg-ypt, and from Pathros, and from dish, and from
Page 39 - Hear, O, our God, for we are despised; and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity; and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
Page 210 - be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers : that saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid."—Isaiah xliv.
Page 210 - to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron : and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayst
Page 145 - Behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble."*
Page 223 - An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord ; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever; because they met you not
Page 150 - corners of the earth. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim."* That