 | John Flavel - 1671 - 576 pagina’s
...perfidiously into their hands that seek his life ; he would have answered, as Hazael did to Elisha, " What, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing 1" 2 Kings, 8:13. His wickedness first discovered itself in murmuring and discontent, taking a pique... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - 500 pagina’s
...this deplorable sin, were once as ready as any of my present hearers can now be, to think and to say, What* is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing? In truth, it becomes depraved creatures, with regard to every sin, to be humble and watchful ; for... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 pagina’s
...moral conduct of Hazael was foretold, in that cruelty he should be guilty of ; on which Hazael says, What, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ! The prophet speaks of the event as what he knew, and not what he conjectured, 2 Kings vyi. 12. I... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1810 - 242 pagina’s
...avoid drunkenness, gaming, adultery, murder; he will perhaps answer, as Hazaeldid to the prophet, " What! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?"* GOD grant that he may always hear of these vices with the same honest indignation ; but in order... | |
 | Theophilus Lindsey - 1810 - 564 pagina’s
...would be guilty, to forewarn him of his danger ; shocked at the idea, he said, (2 Kings viii. 18.) " What, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?" But fell ambition and the love of empire soon silenced and overcame all checks of conscience and... | |
 | William Jay - 1814 - 552 pagina’s
...have exclaimed, " can I ever thus trifle with " God, or become insensible to such a benefactor ?" " 'What ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this " thing ?" How were the Israelites affected when God appeared for them ! " They sang his praise ;" they resolved... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1787 - 588 pagina’s
...has done, he would, I am confident, have replied as Hazael did to the prophet, [^ Kings viii. 13,] "What, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?" But as Hazael did not then know that he would become king of Assyria^ so neither did Mr. Badcock foresee... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1819 - 270 pagina’s
...avoid drunkenness, gaming, adultery, murder; he will perhaps answer, as Hazael did to the prophet, " What ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?"* GOD grant that he may always hear of these vices with the same honest indignation; but in order to... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1844 - 638 pagina’s
...Hazael of old, who being warned by the prophet that he would murder his king, indignantly replied, " What ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing !" And, no doubt, the unhappy young woman, who has caused these remarks to flow from my pen, had she... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 504 pagina’s
...this, it is likely that they would have replied, as Hazael did to the man of God, 2 Kings viii. 13, " But what is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?" O how unlike is their dark and dirty evening to their glorious and hopeful morning ! These professors... | |
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But what ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?" we read, and it is one of those touching traits of which the Bible is so full, that the man of God looked upon him and wept. And well might he weep. Well might any man weep, if he will ever... 
