 | William Mason - 1765 - 522 pagina’s
...on " the God of all comforts," 2 Cor. i. 3. AUGUST 4. — And Hazael said, But what ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? — 2 Kings viii. 13. Oh, the treachery of the human heart ! both scripture and experience prove this melancholy truth, that... | |
 | William Mason - 1803 - 400 pagina’s
...inheritance When they forget thy law. For their Redeemer's sake. And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?... .2 Kings viii. 13. Oj THE treachery of the human heart! both scripture and experience prove this melancholy truth, that... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 454 pagina’s
...evil he would do to the children of Israel, &c. ; and of Hazael's answer, " But what is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" 2 Kings viii. 12, 13. Yet afterwards he perpetrated the deed ; and this man soon after separated himself, than whom... | |
 | 1853 - 840 pagina’s
...question, but to me — and how often is the one taken for the other!) may be: — " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? " [2 Kings viii. 13.] Take care, my friend, the very Hazael who said that to the weeping Elisha did the "great thing." [2... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 476 pagina’s
...impossible that he should ever perpetrate such horrid barbarities as the prophet foresaw. " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" 2 Kings viii. 13. Yes, Hazael ; however thou mayest imagine thyself gentle as a lamb, thou art fierce as a dog, and savage... | |
 | Henry March - 1827 - 374 pagina’s
...atrocity been predicted to him, he would have said with Hazael to the prophet, " But what! Is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing ?" — 2 Kings viii. 13. Men do not come to such extremes at once. But perhaps nothing tends more to harden the heart than frequent... | |
 | James Jones (minister.) - 1828 - 228 pagina’s
...dash their children, and rip up their women with child. And Hazael said, But what ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?" 2 Kings viii. 7, &c. Here, let me ask, Why did the prophet settle his countenance upon Hazael, and burst into tears... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1835 - 546 pagina’s
...theft, charges his Maker with ignorance, and says to Him, as Hazael said to Elisha, ' /«' thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? (2 Kings viii. 13.) " The sin of theft, my dear Frederick, is deemed a low and contemptible one, and is, commonly believed to... | |
 | James Hervey - 1837 - 730 pagina’s
...impossible that he should ever perpetrate such horrid barbarities as the prophet foresaw. " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?" 2 Kings viii. 13. Yes, Hazael ; however thou mayest imagine thyself gentle as a lamb, thou art fierce as a dog, and savage... | |
 | Joshua Dixon - 1838 - 264 pagina’s
...cruelties which he was on the point of perpetrating, he exclaimed with horror, " But what, is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing?" 2 Kings viii. 13. He nevertheless did all the evil which was thus foretold. We are not our own keepers. We should beware... | |
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But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? 
