The Old and New Testament Connected, in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations: From the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, to the Time of Christ, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1836 - Bible |
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... Seleucus , and from thence signified to that prince the calamitous condition he was reduced to , earnestly prayed relief and assistance from him for the sub- sisting of himself and the forces that followed him . Seleucus , being movea ...
... Seleucus , and from thence signified to that prince the calamitous condition he was reduced to , earnestly prayed relief and assistance from him for the sub- sisting of himself and the forces that followed him . Seleucus , being movea ...
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... Seleucus frequently sent him kind messages , with promises of a release from his captivity , assuring him , that as soon as An- tiochus and Stratonice should be returned again to court , the articles of his re- storation should be ...
... Seleucus frequently sent him kind messages , with promises of a release from his captivity , assuring him , that as soon as An- tiochus and Stratonice should be returned again to court , the articles of his re- storation should be ...
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... Seleucus , who received him with great kindness , which he repaid with the most villanous treachery , as will be hereafter related . 2 An . 284. Ptolemy Philadelph . 1 . ] - In the first year of the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus ( which ...
... Seleucus , who received him with great kindness , which he repaid with the most villanous treachery , as will be hereafter related . 2 An . 284. Ptolemy Philadelph . 1 . ] - In the first year of the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus ( which ...
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... Seleucus . But they in their old age ( being each of them about eighty ) making war upon each other opened thereby a way to both their destructions . The occasion of it was thus : after Lysimachus had married his son Agathocles to ...
... Seleucus . But they in their old age ( being each of them about eighty ) making war upon each other opened thereby a way to both their destructions . The occasion of it was thus : after Lysimachus had married his son Agathocles to ...
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... Seleucus having passed the Hellespont in his way to Macedonia , as he marched on from thence toward Lysimachia ( a city which Lysimachus had built near the isthmus of the Thra- cian Chersonesus , ) he stopped at a place where he ...
... Seleucus having passed the Hellespont in his way to Macedonia , as he marched on from thence toward Lysimachia ( a city which Lysimachus had built near the isthmus of the Thra- cian Chersonesus , ) he stopped at a place where he ...
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Page 13 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 345 - Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned : forgive, and ye shall be forgiven : give, and it shall be given unto you ; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.
Page 5 - The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches ; and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.
Page 176 - In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts ; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
Page 238 - Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
Page 351 - The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government there shall be no end. Upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, To order it, and to establish it With judgment and with justice From henceforth even for ever.
Page 351 - I shall see him, but not n'ow; I shall behold him, but not nigh; There shall come a Star out of Jacob, And a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite the corners of Moab, And destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 16 - ... inscription.' When the mortar had decayed by time, Ptolemy's name disappeared, and the following inscription then became visible;— " Sostratus the Cnidian, son of Dexiphanes, to the gods, the saviours, for the benefit of sailors.
Page 53 - God to create the world ; whereas the followers of Epicurus denied it. It is said, also, that they rejected the Bible, except the Pentateuch ; denied predestination ; and taught, that God had made man absolute -master of all his actions, without assistance to good, or restraint from evil.
Page 173 - Then Jonathan and they that were with him rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and made a slaughter of them in such sort, as many fell down dead, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils. Thus was the marriage turned into mourning, and the noise of their melody into lamentation.