| Periodicals - 1838 - 272 pages
...the Israelites after their departure from Egypt. And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the pcoplo go, that God led them not through the way of the land...Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventurc the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: But God led the people... | |
| Periodicals - 1838 - 274 pages
...attention is directed, is the course pursued by the Israelites after their departure from Egypt. And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of tbe land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventurc the people repent... | |
| William Fleming - 1838 - 646 pages
...take the near route through the country of the Philistines, and the reason assigned for this was, " lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt." The Philistines are not enumerated among the nations devoted to extermination, and whose territory... | |
| William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...We are told that " God led the people about through the way of the Wilderness of the Red Sea," and " not through the way of the Land of the Philistines, although that was near" — the regular route being towards Gaza, and the other cities of Palestine which were in Canaan, and... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - Bible - 1838 - 546 pages
...promised land of their permanent habitation, which they might have reached in a few days' march.* But " God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, though that was near; for God said, ' Lest peradventure they repent, when they see war, and they return... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - Bible - 1838 - 510 pages
...promised land of their permanent habitation, which they might have reached in a few days' march.* But " God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, though that was near ; for God said, ' Lest peradventure they repent, when they see war, and they return... | |
| 1838 - 950 pages
...through the land of the Philistines," although " that was near," he himself gave, " lest peradvcnture the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt" (Ex. xiii. 17). This sufficiently accounts for the direction taken — the more so, as Jehovah was... | |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 234 pages
...and the desert of mount Sinai. It was this which Moses was directed to take with the Israelites. " God led them not through the way of the land of the...through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea." After one day's march, a distance probably not exceeding fifteen miles, the Israelites pitched their... | |
| John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...raoh had lei the people go, world — that worse than Egvpnu that God led them not through bondagethe way of the land of the Philistines, although that...see war, and they return to Egypt : but God led the peop'tf about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea : and the children of Israel went up... | |
| Richard Graves - 1840 - 534 pages
...repugnant to the purposes of the divine dispensations. For we are informed, that " God led not his people through the " way of the land of the Philistines,...peradventure the people repent when they " see war, and return to Egypt."* Under these circumstances, the unprovoked, inveterate and presumptuous attack of... | |
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