The Book of Judges in the Revised Version: The Book of Ruth in the Revised VersionUniversity Press, 1918 |
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... battles on a national scale , were rather local leaders who won a victory for their particular district with such forces as they could muster . Israel had not yet outgrown the tribal stage , and a nation of Israel did not yet exist ...
... battles on a national scale , were rather local leaders who won a victory for their particular district with such forces as they could muster . Israel had not yet outgrown the tribal stage , and a nation of Israel did not yet exist ...
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... battle are described with vivid detail , little is said about the ordinary life of old Israel in times of peace ; we have to glean what we can from stray allusions . Again , the compilers of the O.T. historical books display little ...
... battle are described with vivid detail , little is said about the ordinary life of old Israel in times of peace ; we have to glean what we can from stray allusions . Again , the compilers of the O.T. historical books display little ...
Page xxxvii
... battle against their enemies , and on occasion united in a common cause . The ancient sources tell us of no national abandonment of Jehovah , nor of any deliberate adoption of a foreign deity . The later historian , indeed , treats this ...
... battle against their enemies , and on occasion united in a common cause . The ancient sources tell us of no national abandonment of Jehovah , nor of any deliberate adoption of a foreign deity . The later historian , indeed , treats this ...
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... battles , at Beth - horon and the waters of Merom ( Josh . x . , xi . ) ; the Canaanites are exterminated wholesale ( x . 40 ff . , xi . 11 , 14 , 21 ) ; the entire country from Edom in the south to Hermon in the north ( xi . 16 f ...
... battles , at Beth - horon and the waters of Merom ( Josh . x . , xi . ) ; the Canaanites are exterminated wholesale ( x . 40 ff . , xi . 11 , 14 , 21 ) ; the entire country from Edom in the south to Hermon in the north ( xi . 16 f ...
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... battle ; according to the author of ii . I ff . it was because they were unfaithful to Jehovah . A belief had grown up that Jehovah had originally decreed a policy of extermination ( cf. Ex . xxxiv . 11-16 J , Deut . vii . 1-5 etc ...
... battle ; according to the author of ii . I ff . it was because they were unfaithful to Jehovah . A belief had grown up that Jehovah had originally decreed a policy of extermination ( cf. Ex . xxxiv . 11-16 J , Deut . vii . 1-5 etc ...
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Abimelech altar Amorites ancient Baal Barak behold belong Benjamin Beth-el Beth-lehem Boaz Book of Judges Canaan Canaanites children of Ammon children of Israel clan connexion Danites Deborah Deut Deuteronomic editor Ehud ephod Ephraim Ezek father Gibeah Gideon Gilead hand hath Hebr Hebrew Hebron hill country implies inhabitants Israelites Jabin Jael Jehovah Jephthah Jerubbaal Jerusalem Jordan Josh Joshua Judah Kedesh Kenites Kings land later Levite liers in wait LORD marg meaning Micah Midian Midianites Moab Moabites Moore Naomi Naphtali narrative Nazirite original Palestine perhaps period Philistines probably rendering Ruth Samson sanctuary sense Shechem shews Sisera story thee thou tradition tribes unto verb verse viii Vulg word xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxxi xxxii xxxiv Zebulun
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Page 139 - Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me ; for she pleaseth me well.
Page 57 - They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Page 180 - And it was so, that all that saw it, said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
Page 83 - And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many ; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there : and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
Page 65 - Curse ye Meroz,' said the angel of the Lord, 'Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; Because they came not to the help of the Lord, To the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 124 - And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Page 6 - And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you : and they answered him, The Lord bless thee.
Page 2 - The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
Page 172 - And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel...
Page 149 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.