The Book of Joshua: With Notes, Maps, and IntroductionGeorge Frederick Maclear |
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... town ; their heads in the midst I hoisted ; their boys and their maidens I dishonoured . See Records of the Past , Vol . III . 39—50 ; Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia , I. 17-27 , and comp . it with other passages in the Assyrian ...
... town ; their heads in the midst I hoisted ; their boys and their maidens I dishonoured . See Records of the Past , Vol . III . 39—50 ; Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia , I. 17-27 , and comp . it with other passages in the Assyrian ...
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... town and " enjoyed the benefit of one , if not two , of those copious streams which form the chief sources of such fertility as the valley of the Jordan contains . " Its reduction , therefore , must have been the first object of the ...
... town and " enjoyed the benefit of one , if not two , of those copious streams which form the chief sources of such fertility as the valley of the Jordan contains . " Its reduction , therefore , must have been the first object of the ...
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... towns . when it was dark ] In the East , night comes on soon after sundown , and the evening twilight is of very short duration . I wot not ] Strict truth was a virtue but little known or practised in ancient times , and Rahab must not ...
... towns . when it was dark ] In the East , night comes on soon after sundown , and the evening twilight is of very short duration . I wot not ] Strict truth was a virtue but little known or practised in ancient times , and Rahab must not ...
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... town wall , and she dwelt upon the wall . And she said unto them , Get you to the mountain , lest the pursuers meet you ; from the Jabbok up to the base of Hermon ( Num . xxi . 33-35 ; Deut . iii . 1-7 ) . whom ye utterly destroyed ] Or ...
... town wall , and she dwelt upon the wall . And she said unto them , Get you to the mountain , lest the pursuers meet you ; from the Jabbok up to the base of Hermon ( Num . xxi . 33-35 ; Deut . iii . 1-7 ) . whom ye utterly destroyed ] Or ...
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... towns ( Deut . xvi . 18 ; 1 Chron . xxiii . 4 ) . 3. the ark of the covenant ] called sometimes ( i ) " the Ark of God , " I Sam . iii . 3 ; sometimes ( ii ) " the Ark of the Testimony , " Exod . xxv . 22 . Here it means " the Ark of ...
... towns ( Deut . xvi . 18 ; 1 Chron . xxiii . 4 ) . 3. the ark of the covenant ] called sometimes ( i ) " the Ark of God , " I Sam . iii . 3 ; sometimes ( ii ) " the Ark of the Testimony , " Exod . xxv . 22 . Here it means " the Ark of ...
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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.