Biographies of the Kings of Judah: Twelve LecturesRivingtons, 1865 - 243 pages |
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... worship of David's God- " Be- hold , brethren , how great a matter a small fire kindleth . " Of this , however , bye and bye . We must sum up in a few words the remaining events of Rehoboam's reign , before enlarging on the moral of ...
... worship of David's God- " Be- hold , brethren , how great a matter a small fire kindleth . " Of this , however , bye and bye . We must sum up in a few words the remaining events of Rehoboam's reign , before enlarging on the moral of ...
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... worship . But a change soon passed upon them both . " It came to pass , " says the sacred historian , " when Rehoboam had established the kingdom , and had strengthened himself , he forsook the law of the Lord , and all Israel with him ...
... worship . But a change soon passed upon them both . " It came to pass , " says the sacred historian , " when Rehoboam had established the kingdom , and had strengthened himself , he forsook the law of the Lord , and all Israel with him ...
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... worship . It is recorded also that there were wars continually , most probably border skirmishes , between himself and Jeroboam . How far his repentance was really inward , really earnest , we know not , and we are equally uninformed ...
... worship . It is recorded also that there were wars continually , most probably border skirmishes , between himself and Jeroboam . How far his repentance was really inward , really earnest , we know not , and we are equally uninformed ...
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... worship at Jerusalem , and knew they were sinking deeper and deeper in the grossest and most sensual idolatry , he must have sometimes said to him- self , " Who is the cause of all this ? " and himself must have replied to himself ...
... worship at Jerusalem , and knew they were sinking deeper and deeper in the grossest and most sensual idolatry , he must have sometimes said to him- self , " Who is the cause of all this ? " and himself must have replied to himself ...
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... worship was paid to them were destroyed . A difficulty met him here . Maachah , the wife of Rehoboam , was still alive , and in her capacity of Queen Mother ( which as we learn was , even in Solomon's days , a position of dignity and ...
... worship was paid to them were destroyed . A difficulty met him here . Maachah , the wife of Rehoboam , was still alive , and in her capacity of Queen Mother ( which as we learn was , even in Solomon's days , a position of dignity and ...
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Page 113 - And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life : that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 153 - I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Page 198 - And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
Page 151 - Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him : for there be more with us than with him : 8 With him is an arm of flesh ; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles.
Page 168 - And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
Page 219 - Well ; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear : for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee.
Page 218 - Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Page 91 - He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
Page 131 - And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
Page 189 - And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, .and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.