 Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me: come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out...  Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately - Page 73by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Disney BARLOW - 1863 - 272 pages
...: for they shall inherit the earth."—MATT. v. 3-5. " I KNOW," said the king of Moab to Balaam, " that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed." And how came it that Balaam's words involved issues so tremendous ? Thus,—God had put a word in his mouth,... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1863 - 1038 pages
...peradventur^ I shall prevail, [that] we may smite them, and [that] I may drive them out of the land : for I wot that he whom thou blessest [is] blessed: and he whom thou curscst is cursed" (Num. xxii. 5, 6). We are told, however, that Balaam, warned of God, first said... | |
 | Gordon Calthrop - 1865 - 328 pages
...peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land : for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed." And here begins the first act of this painful tragedy — so far as it concerns the prophet Balaam. Now... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1865 - 704 pages
...peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land : for his body to the wall of Beth-shan. Three Bakhtiarees had been condemned to deat The Orientals, in their wars, have always their magicians with them to curse their enemies, and to... | |
 | William Clifford Holden - Bantu-speaking peoples - 1866 - 574 pages
...peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land : for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed." (Num. xxii. 4-6.) The whole of the sacrifices offered by Balaam, as well as the other parts of the... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 pages
...whose reputation had been widely spread throughout that region. " I wot," said Balak by his messengers, "that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed." It was an opinion very extensively prevalent throughout the world in different ages, and it is even... | |
 | 1927 - 486 pages
...perhaps I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed." And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand;... | |
 | Edmond Fleg - 1928 - 296 pages
...peoples, and that is encamped before me; come and curse this people so that I may drive them back; for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed." Now this was that same Balaam, IsraePs old enemy, who formerly in Egypt, as Pharaoh's counsellor, had... | |
 | Jacob Singer - Bible - 1928 - 138 pages
...death."245 And Bakk said to Baalam "Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people . . . for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed."248 "9Lara. ii. 10; iii. 27-28. 240Josh. vi. 10, 17, 16. 241Amos. vii. 3. 2J2Josh. ix. 20.... | |
 | Jews - 1845 - 750 pages
...Baalam if he would curse them. " Come, curse me this people, for they are too mighty for me," " for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed." But God revealed himself to Balaam in the night, and said, " Thou shalt not go with them, thou shalt... | |
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