The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah: Including the Dissertation on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volume 2Baynes, 1808 - History, Ancient |
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... meaning . Herodotus does indeed say , that Semiramis was revle Yeveno before Ni- tocris ; but the word has a double ac- ceptation . It is sometimes used to signify a generation or descent , and I am sensible γενεα e Newton's Chronol . p ...
... meaning . Herodotus does indeed say , that Semiramis was revle Yeveno before Ni- tocris ; but the word has a double ac- ceptation . It is sometimes used to signify a generation or descent , and I am sensible γενεα e Newton's Chronol . p ...
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... meaning : because , if we take him in this sense , he will , as all other writers have ever done , place Semiramis near the time where he begins the Assyrian empire , I have formerly con- sidered Herodotus ' opinion , about the rise of ...
... meaning : because , if we take him in this sense , he will , as all other writers have ever done , place Semiramis near the time where he begins the Assyrian empire , I have formerly con- sidered Herodotus ' opinion , about the rise of ...
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... meaning . 3. Sir Isaac Newton cites Nehemiah , chap . x . ver . 32. The words are Now , therefore , our Gon - Let not all the trouble seem little before thee , that hath come upon us , on our kings , on our princes , and on our priests ...
... meaning . 3. Sir Isaac Newton cites Nehemiah , chap . x . ver . 32. The words are Now , therefore , our Gon - Let not all the trouble seem little before thee , that hath come upon us , on our kings , on our princes , and on our priests ...
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... meaning Ilus , not Israel , and that Eusebius mistook in thinking Il to be a short way of writing * Israel . But to this it may be answered , that Ilus could not be the person that offered his son , because Ilus had more sons than one ...
... meaning Ilus , not Israel , and that Eusebius mistook in thinking Il to be a short way of writing * Israel . But to this it may be answered , that Ilus could not be the person that offered his son , because Ilus had more sons than one ...
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... meaning , calling Sicyon h Adrastus ' ancient reign.i Our learned writer makes objections against some par- ticular kings in the Sicyonian roll : but it is observ- Il . 2. v . 572 . i Pope's Homer . In Corinthiacis . able , that Castor ...
... meaning , calling Sicyon h Adrastus ' ancient reign.i Our learned writer makes objections against some par- ticular kings in the Sicyonian roll : but it is observ- Il . 2. v . 572 . i Pope's Homer . In Corinthiacis . able , that Castor ...
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Page 448 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 213 - Lord: 15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; " lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. " For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Page 502 - And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians.
Page 505 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.
Page 119 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called : Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 119 - And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham, and he said, Here am I.
Page 233 - And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Page 497 - Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Page 503 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 266 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.