Sketches in Verse from the Historical Books of the Old TestamentHamilton, Adams, 1828 - 183 pagina's |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 172 - Take this book of the law and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Pagina 8 - Bible," and am of opinion that the volume independently of its Divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, and poetry, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
Pagina 150 - wisdom, (1 Kings iv. 30.) is that it excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Pagina 157 - The land is as the garden of Eden, before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.
Pagina 165 - out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the comers of Moab
Pagina 162 - while 1 am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death.
Pagina 155 - One of those sacred Scribes, who are very sagacious in foretelling future events truly, told the king that about this time there would a child be born to the Israelites, who would bring the Egyptian dominion low, and
Pagina 179 - to pass in that day that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophecied; neither shall they wear a rough
Pagina 182 - one so produced, and thus named, is known by certain marks : the skin is. black, but on its forehead is a white star ' of a triangular form. It has the figure of an eagle on the back, the tail is divided, and under the tongue it has an insect like a beetle.
Pagina 178 - mount Ebal, on which mountain the altar was: he, also, placed there the tribe of Levi and the Priests, And when they had sacrificed, and denounced the blessings and the curses, and had left them engraven upon the altar, they returned to Shiloh.