 | Joseph Tyso - 1838 - 302 pagina’s
...shall thou do six days — and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times. i. Kings xvii. 1. There shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word, ii. Kings vii. 1. 16. To-morrow about this time. viii. 1. And it shall also come upon the land seven... | |
 | George Bush - 1839 - 738 pagina’s
...XVII. Ver. ) . And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the ere so eager in the pursuit of glory, and so tender...lives of their subjects, that they frequently sent The latter rain falls in the middle or towards the end of April, from which, if there be three months... | |
 | Menzies Rayner - 1839 - 296 pagina’s
...follows : " And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years but according to my word." This was a solemn assertion, and doubtless prophetic, but the language is not that of prayer, or entreaty.... | |
 | Henry Edward J. Howard (hon.) - 1840 - 340 pagina’s
...his character : " Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there...nor rain these years, but according to my word."* We learn from the assurance of an apostle of Christ, that this word, in the mouth of Elijah, was a... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1840 - 536 pagina’s
...righteous men. St. James refers to the example of Elijah, taken from 1 Kings xvii. 1, "As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." The same truth is forcibly expressed in Exod. xxxii. 10 : when the Israelites had fallen into their... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pagina’s
...u-fio teat of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, b .-tore whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, bnt according to my word. And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn... | |
 | 1853 - 654 pagina’s
...Here, too, the allusions to the Pentateuch are quite numerous, a few of which we shall give : " As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there...dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." 1 Kings xvii, 1. Compare these words addressed to Ahab, king of Israel, with Deut. xi, 17 : " And the... | |
 | John Goulter Dowling - 1841 - 546 pagina’s
...fortunes. " And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the F Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there...dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." Those words were the signal of persecution. It would have been madness to have encountered the rage... | |
 | George Paxton - 1842 - 586 pagina’s
...days of Elijah, suspended for three years and six months. But when the prophet said to Ahab, ' As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there...rain these years, but according to my word ; ' * he could not mean, there shall be no rain at all for three years ; for, long before their termination,... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 814 pagina’s
...Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel li veth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. 2 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide... | |
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And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. 
