The Pictorial Bible: Genesis-JoshuaW. and R. Chambers, 1855 |
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... Kings xii . 28-33 . Bethel afterwards fell into the possession of Judah ; and King Josiah destroyed its altars and idols , 2 Chron . xiii . 19 ; 2 Kings xxiii . 15-18 . After the Captivity , the place was again inhabited by the ...
... Kings xii . 28-33 . Bethel afterwards fell into the possession of Judah ; and King Josiah destroyed its altars and idols , 2 Chron . xiii . 19 ; 2 Kings xxiii . 15-18 . After the Captivity , the place was again inhabited by the ...
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... king intended to act , or was considered to act , oppressively in taking away a man's sister without thinking his consent necessary . The passage is illustrated by the privilege which royal personages still exercise in Persia and other ...
... king intended to act , or was considered to act , oppressively in taking away a man's sister without thinking his consent necessary . The passage is illustrated by the privilege which royal personages still exercise in Persia and other ...
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... king of Sodom . AND it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar , Árioch king of Ellasar , Che- dorlaomer king of Elam , and Tidal king of nations ; 2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom , and with Birsha king of Gomorrah ...
... king of Sodom . AND it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar , Árioch king of Ellasar , Che- dorlaomer king of Elam , and Tidal king of nations ; 2 That these made war with Bera king of Sodom , and with Birsha king of Gomorrah ...
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... kings , " namely , Amraphael , king of Shinar ( or Babylonia ) ; Arioch , king of Ellasar ; and another called Tidal , who , from his title , " ' king of Goyim , " or , if we translate the word , " of peoples , " may seem to have ruled ...
... kings , " namely , Amraphael , king of Shinar ( or Babylonia ) ; Arioch , king of Ellasar ; and another called Tidal , who , from his title , " ' king of Goyim , " or , if we translate the word , " of peoples , " may seem to have ruled ...
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... king- doms . Greece remained for many ages divided into even more petty states than ultimately formed its republics . We see what a number of kings Greece sent forth to the war with Troy ; and the still more ancient monarchies of that ...
... king- doms . Greece remained for many ages divided into even more petty states than ultimately formed its republics . We see what a number of kings Greece sent forth to the war with Troy ; and the still more ancient monarchies of that ...
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Page 15 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 9 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 12 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 72 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 9 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 172 - And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows. And I am come down to deliver them...
Page 193 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.
Page 203 - And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel ; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these : so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 220 - Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.
Page 34 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.