 | 1831 - 420 pagina’s
...extremity of the tendrils. A writer remarking upon this, thinks it may illustrate a passage in Genesis — 'Joseph is a fruitful bough; even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall.' The vine, particularly in Turkey and Greece, is frequently made to entwine on trellises around a well,... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1832 - 226 pagina’s
...vine by the sides of thy house ; thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Gen. xlix. 22. Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall. , 2 Chron. xxvi. 10. For he had much cattle both in the low " During the seventh year, according to... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pagina’s
...two thousand and five hundred. JVu. xxvi. 34. 37. A multitude in the midst of the rti?lli.\ Joseph it a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall. Ge. xlix. 22. The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied and waxed... | |
 | John Watkins - 1833 - 526 pagina’s
...the language in which the blessing is expressed, is richly metaphorical, elegant, and appropriate. "Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough...made strong by the hands of the mighty GOD of Jacob : from thence is the shepherd the stone of Israel : even by the GOD of thy father, who shall help thee,... | |
 | 1833 - 652 pagina’s
...Ephrnim had his share in the remarkable blessing' that was pronounced on his father. " Joseph is n fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose...made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob, (from thence is the shepherd the stone of Israel.) Even by the God of thy father, who snail help thee,... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1833 - 502 pagina’s
...not unfrequently made use of as a figure of speech. Israel, when blessing his sons, says of Joseph, ' the archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him,...strong, by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.' " " Its earliest application was probably for the purpose of obtaining food," observed Mr. Seymour.... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pagina’s
...whose strength is in thee. 6 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him. 7 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his...made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob ; his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. If 8 Lord, by thy favour... | |
 | George Burder, Joseph Hughes - 1833 - 1134 pagina’s
..."branches run over the wait 23 The -archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 ficer of Pharaoh's, and 'captain of the guard. CHAPTER...Th'u crupier (ire* m вп account of Judah and Mi f ; (from thence м the Shepherd,* the stone dof Israel :) 25 Even by the God of thy father, "who shall... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pagina’s
...be fruitful in the land of my affliction." His dying father remarks this under a beautiful image : "Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall." This includes, no doubt, a reference to his outward condition. Egypt had been the land, how truly !... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 pagina’s
...them in our hearts. " Joseph is a fruitful bough even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches ran ^ : from thence is • the shepherd, the stone of Israel. Even by the God of thy father, who shall help... | |
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The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob... 
