The Book of Joshua: With Notes, Maps, and IntroductionGeorge Frederick Maclear |
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... Fathers ascribe it to Joshua himself " . Others conjecture that it was composed by Eleazar , or Phinehas , or one of the elders who outlived Joshua , or Samuel , or Jeremiah ; while others have not hesitated to ascribe it to one who ...
... Fathers ascribe it to Joshua himself " . Others conjecture that it was composed by Eleazar , or Phinehas , or one of the elders who outlived Joshua , or Samuel , or Jeremiah ; while others have not hesitated to ascribe it to one who ...
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... father was Nun2 , of the powerful tribe of Ephraim . Of his mother we know nothing . • 3. His original name was Oshea or Hoshea " , " salvation . ” This , as we shall see , was afterwards changed to Jehoshua or Joshua , " the salvation ...
... father was Nun2 , of the powerful tribe of Ephraim . Of his mother we know nothing . • 3. His original name was Oshea or Hoshea " , " salvation . ” This , as we shall see , was afterwards changed to Jehoshua or Joshua , " the salvation ...
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... fathers worshipped other gods in Egypt ? " 5. Here too he experienced the bitterness of cruel bondage , while beneath a burning rainless sky , the sons of Jacob toiled naked and in gangs under the lash in the quarries or the brick ...
... fathers worshipped other gods in Egypt ? " 5. Here too he experienced the bitterness of cruel bondage , while beneath a burning rainless sky , the sons of Jacob toiled naked and in gangs under the lash in the quarries or the brick ...
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... father , pleading , remonstrating , sympa- thizing , pronouncing upon the transgressor , not in passion , but with calm dignity , the doom he had brought upon himself , as being under the ban of God . 12. But besides his work of war ...
... father , pleading , remonstrating , sympa- thizing , pronouncing upon the transgressor , not in passion , but with calm dignity , the doom he had brought upon himself , as being under the ban of God . 12. But besides his work of war ...
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... fathers , and go the way of all the earth . Sum- moning , therefore , the tribes of Israel , with the elders , and judges , and officers , to Shechem , he gave them his last charge . He reviewed their past history as a family , a tribe ...
... fathers , and go the way of all the earth . Sum- moning , therefore , the tribes of Israel , with the elders , and judges , and officers , to Shechem , he gave them his last charge . He reviewed their past history as a family , a tribe ...
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altar Amorites Asher Bashan Beth-horon Bethel Bible for Schools Book of Joshua border boundary Caleb Cambridge Bible Canaan Canaanites children of Israel Chron cities coast College commanded Commentary Comp covenant Dead Sea Debir Demy Octavo Deut Divine east edited Egypt Ephraim Epistle of St Exod father Gibeon Gilead Gilgal Gospel half tribe hath Hazor Hebrew Hebron Heshbon hill inhabitants inheritance Israelites Issachar Jehovah Jericho Jerusalem Jordan Josh Judah Judg king Lachish land Levites LORD Maclear Makkedah miles Moab Moses mount mountain Naphtali Palestine passed Philistines plain Plumptre possession priests Professor Reuben Shechem Shiloh side Sihon smote spake St James Stanley's stones suburbs Tabernacle territory thee thou town tribe of Gad tribe of Manasseh unto Joshua valley verse villages wilderness word Wyclif xvii xviii xxiii xxiv xxxii Zebulun
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Page 11 - And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
Page 86 - And it came to pass as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them, unto Azekah, and they died ; they were more which died with hailstones, than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Page 33 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Page 151 - The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Page 89 - And there was no day like that, before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man : for the LORD fought for Israel.
Page 213 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us ; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us : it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
Page 62 - In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho : he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
Page 215 - And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver : and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Page 155 - But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it, for the wickedness of my people Israel.
Page 93 - Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.