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... hundred and sixty - nine years . ( B. C. 2349. ) The earth then would be rapidly peopled , and wickedness appears to have arrived at its utmost degree about this time ; for , in the year of the world 1656 , all mankind were swept away ...
... hundred and sixty - nine years . ( B. C. 2349. ) The earth then would be rapidly peopled , and wickedness appears to have arrived at its utmost degree about this time ; for , in the year of the world 1656 , all mankind were swept away ...
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... hundred years . Others think , even a longer period . . While the Ark was preparing , he warned his cotempora- ries of the impending calamity , but no penitence appeared to avert the divine wrath , and “ in the sixth hundredth year of ...
... hundred years . Others think , even a longer period . . While the Ark was preparing , he warned his cotempora- ries of the impending calamity , but no penitence appeared to avert the divine wrath , and “ in the sixth hundredth year of ...
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Lady. ours , containing each three hundred and sixty - five days ? Perhaps they were months ; only think - Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty - nine years . What a prodigious length of time ! MRS . M. They were literally years . The ...
Lady. ours , containing each three hundred and sixty - five days ? Perhaps they were months ; only think - Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty - nine years . What a prodigious length of time ! MRS . M. They were literally years . The ...
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... hundred and thirty - seven years . ( B. C. 2126. ) During this lapse of ages , the knowledge of the Deity had become greatly obscured and debased by ignorance . and idolatry ; for no written law was yet given , but only a few moral and ...
... hundred and thirty - seven years . ( B. C. 2126. ) During this lapse of ages , the knowledge of the Deity had become greatly obscured and debased by ignorance . and idolatry ; for no written law was yet given , but only a few moral and ...
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... hundred years . And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge , and afterwards shall they come out with great substance . " ( B. C. 1897 ) . CHARLES . Had the natives been acquainted with these prophecies , they would not have ...
... hundred years . And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge , and afterwards shall they come out with great substance . " ( B. C. 1897 ) . CHARLES . Had the natives been acquainted with these prophecies , they would not have ...
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Page 415 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 172 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Page 290 - What portion have we in David ? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse : to your tents, O Israel : now see to thine own house, David.
Page 417 - The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 333 - Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land ; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Page 297 - And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
Page 149 - The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall hearken...
Page 434 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 130 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his ! And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me?
Page 316 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day ; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee : Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.