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1761 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 29.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… were called to lift it with consecrated hands, and to offer first the kine that had been devoted by the Philistines to the service of the Lord, and then other …
1762 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 126.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… able to be of real service to his countrymen by protecting the large flocks which pastured far and wide from the predatory raids of the wild tribes of the …
1763 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 76.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… services, and for other purposes. The principal gate was, no doubt, the eastern ( Ezekiel 11:1 ), corresponding to the “Beautiful Gate” of New Testament times. To judge …
1764 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 81.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… necessary to call attention to the remarkable circumstance that the chief, if not almost the sole prominent agent in these services, was the king, the high …
1765 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 162.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Temple-services and the Levitical priesthood, but among whom the infamous rites of Baal and Astarte had become the established worship, ordinary means …
1766 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 26.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… is to do service for God. It seems almost symbolic that the oxen with which he had been working, the yoke which bound them, and the wooden ploughshare which they …
1767 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 79.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ordered service of Jehovah, as practiced in Jerusalem, he had, at least in profession, not renounced the national religion, but only worshipped the God of Israel …
1768 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 172.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… His service; but that the new deity, Baal, who had proved so mighty a god to the surrounding nations, would by and by take them under his protection. And as between …
1769 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 29.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to mark the hand of God in a defeat which formed so striking a contrast to the victory which the LORD had given to Asa with an army greatly inferior to his enemies …
1770 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 116.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… which God had prepared to [for] the people [probably referring to their willing participation and contribution to these services], for the thing had come suddenly …
1771 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 174.3 (John Foxe)
… Service, and that you read the Scriptures with reverence and fear, calling upon God for his grace to direct you in his truth. Pray also fervently to God, to pardon …
1772 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 203.4 (John Foxe)
… , “calling people to repentance, and to return to the Lord, with their hearts as well as their mouths; directing them to the light of Christ within them, to see, examine …
1773 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 4.32 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… to have risen up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and rather to have called them, than staid for their calling him, so zealous does he seem to have been …
1774 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 4.49 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… pains to obtain the land they were desirous to have; and that they were not willing to march along, and undergo the remaining hard service, whereby they were …
1775 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 7.82 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… resolved to call that entire place The Altar of all the People, and to build a temple to God there; which words he uttered very appositely to what was to be done …
1776 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 7.85 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… David called his son Solomon, and charged him, when he had received the kingdom, to build a temple to God, and said, "!I was willing to build God a temple myself, but …
1777 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 8.107 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… distributed to he ready for the king's service, besides those whom he sent to the best fortified cities.
1778 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 9.68 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… multitude to the priests and Levites, that they might constantly attend upon Divine service, and never be taken off from the worship of God Accordingly, the …
1779 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 12.25 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… just to requite the Jews' diligence and zeal in his service So he wrote to the generals of his armies, and to his friends, and gave testimony to the good behavior …
1780 Antiquities of the Jews, p. 13.77 (Titus Flavius Josephus)
… very serviceable to the Jews; for he added a country to them, and obtained a part of the nation of the Itureans for them, and bound them to them by the bond of the …