 | Bryan Edwards - 1806 - 452 pages
...-for how otherwise are we to understand the Scripture phrase OF GATHERING UP THE FEET OF THE DYING ? "And when Jacob had made "an end of commanding his sons, .HE GATHERED UP HIS " FEET INTO THE BED, and yielded up the ghost. || Many other corresponding circumstances may be traced in Herodotus.... | |
 | William Paley - 1808 - 564 pages
...as they are significations of gratitude or affection, justly deserving of commendation and esteem. "And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. And Joseph fell upon his father's... | |
 | William Paley - 1808 - 402 pages
...and esteem. " And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...Leah) 32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein, vans from the cluldren of Hcth. 33 eous : he hath cut asunder the cords ofthe wicked. 5 Let them all be confounded and the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. CHAP. L. 1 The mourningfor Jacob.... | |
 | William Jones - 1810 - 516 pages
...to comfort him ; and, on the morning of the Epiphany, he expired, without a groan or a sigh. — " And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost." APPENDIX. (No. I.) Written at a Seat, under some sequestered Oaks,... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 410 pages
...Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for- a possession of a burying place. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. And Joseph fell upon his father's... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 614 pages
...can be imagined more pleasant than the death of the old patriarchs. The holy scripture tells us, that when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, Gen. xlix. The same is related of king David.that when he had persuaded... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 580 pages
...can be imagined more pleasant than the death of the old patriarchs. The holy scripture tells us, that when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered np his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, Gen. xlix. The same is related of kingDavid,that... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1811 - 396 pages
...Leah.) The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth. S3 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. I And Joseph fell upon his father's... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 568 pages
...of burial, and the same alluded to in the Holy Scriptures. And Jacob gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.' Now, to say nothing of our author's utter ignorance of the meaning of the phrase, ' gathered unto .his... | |
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And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. 
