 | Idumaea - Arabian Peninsula - 1799 - 204 pages
...seem to be a direct allusion to such an event, and the consequent desolations, in Malachi i. 3, " I laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." Josephus relates that Nebuchadnezzar made an expedition, in the fifth year after •his capture of... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1804 - 534 pages
...account of the manner in which this divine love and hatred were manifefted is immediately fubjoined. " I loved JACOB, and I hated ESAU; and laid his mountains and his heritage wafte, for the dra-. gons of the wildernefs. Whereas EDOM faith, we ars impoverifbed, but we will return... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...the word of the LORD to 3 J_ Israel by Malachi, my messenger. I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yst ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us ? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother ? saith the LORD : yet I 3 loved Jacob, and gave him great external privileges ; And I hated Esau, I showed him less love, by... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Reformed Church - 1807 - 384 pages
...walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts ? and at the very beginning of the book of this prophecy : / have loved you, saith the Lord: yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us ? This was offering an insult to deity, if the expression be warrantable, in the tenderest part. He... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...be admitted to challenge a place in the holy Church of God. MALACHI. L 2, 3 I have loved you, suith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us ?...not Esau Jacob's brother ? saith the LORD : yet I laved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 408 pages
...cannot hide it; you know I have seen it myself : your affections here are the language of scripture ; Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord : yet...for the dragons of the wilderness," Mai. i. 2, 3. And though you and many more are cavilling at God, and calling him unjust for this discriminating love,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...says concerning Esau's rejected posterity, has reference to their eternal state, as well as his. " Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: yet...heritage waste, for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished; but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...by his providence, as I observed before. And this love is discriminating, as all do nof share in it: "I have loved you, saith the Lord : yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacoh's brother ? saith the Lord : yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 514 pages
...hands ? and shine upon the counsel of the wicked \\? The Jews of this time made this very complaint. I have loved you, saith the Lord, yet ye say, Wherein hast thou laved us ^ ? And again, And *• Ezra iii. 3. f Zech. viii. 10. J Ch. vii. ver 14. now we call the... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 462 pages
...brother served the posterity of theyounger. The other text referred to by the apostle, runs thus : " I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau, and laid his mountains...waste for the dragons of the wilderness," Mai. i. 2. Whose heritage was it that God laid waste ? Not that which Esau personally enjoyed ; but that of his... | |
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I HAVE loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us ? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: Yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, And laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 
