A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament: With Devotional and Practical Reflections, for the Use of Families, 4. köideS. Etheridge, 1805 |
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... hear Christ's voice , thankfully receive his offers , and earn . estly pray that we ourselves and all about us may be disposed to ask the way to Zion with our faces thitherward ; and join ourselves to God in the bonds of an everlasting ...
... hear Christ's voice , thankfully receive his offers , and earn . estly pray that we ourselves and all about us may be disposed to ask the way to Zion with our faces thitherward ; and join ourselves to God in the bonds of an everlasting ...
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... , surely we who have our maintenance from God , owe all to him , and depend on him for all we wish and hope , should not see or hear him dishon VOL . IV . oured without resenting it , endeavouring to remove it , EZRA . IV . 13.
... , surely we who have our maintenance from God , owe all to him , and depend on him for all we wish and hope , should not see or hear him dishon VOL . IV . oured without resenting it , endeavouring to remove it , EZRA . IV . 13.
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... kings should hear . 5. In all trusts that are reposed in us , it is our wisdom and duty to be fathful and punctual . The care of Ezra in weighing out the vessels to the priests , and their care to deliver 26 EZRA . VIII .
... kings should hear . 5. In all trusts that are reposed in us , it is our wisdom and duty to be fathful and punctual . The care of Ezra in weighing out the vessels to the priests , and their care to deliver 26 EZRA . VIII .
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... hear the prayer of thy servant , which I pray before thee now , day and This was a common title of God after the captivity . He was great compared with idols , or with the greatest kings , and humbly to be worshipped by all the world ...
... hear the prayer of thy servant , which I pray before thee now , day and This was a common title of God after the captivity . He was great compared with idols , or with the greatest kings , and humbly to be worshipped by all the world ...
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... hear of the desolation of the sanctuary , and the decay of religion , without sorrow , humiliation and prayer . How unlike this good man are they who dwell at ease , delight them- selves in the pleasures of sense , and drink wine in ...
... hear of the desolation of the sanctuary , and the decay of religion , without sorrow , humiliation and prayer . How unlike this good man are they who dwell at ease , delight them- selves in the pleasures of sense , and drink wine in ...
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afflictions Akkub Babylon Behold Bigvai bless brethren CHAP chief musician children of men Christ comfort commandments creatures David death deliver deliverance destroy distress divine dwell earth Eliashib Eliphaz enemies Esther evil eyes Ezra faithful favour fear friends give glory God's Haman hand happiness Hashabiah Hashum hath hear heart heathen heaven holy honour hope humble iniquity Israel Israelites Jerusalem Jews Joiarib Judah judgment king king's land Levites live Malchiah mercy Mordecai mouth Neginoth Nehemiah Nethinims ourselves peace praise pray prayer priests princes prosperity psalm REFLECTIONS Rehum rejoice religion remember reproach righteous salvation seek Selah servants Shechaniah Sherebiah sing sins Song of degrees sorrow soul speak spirit strength tabernacle thereof thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thought tion trouble trust unto the LORD unto thee upright wicked wilt wisdom worship wrath Zerubbabel Zion
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Page 43 - They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
Page 300 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 370 - For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments...
Page 104 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Page 34 - The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. 4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven...
Page 396 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. "In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 78 - And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws, therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Page 35 - O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name : and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.
Page 475 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 358 - Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne...