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2121 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 96.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… last Jehovah listened to Isaac’s “entreaty,” “for his wife,” or rather, literally, “over against his wife,” for, as Luther strikingly remarks: “When I pray for any one …
2122 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 96.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah” its meaning, though we know not in what precise manner she did this. The answer of God indicated this at least quite clearly, that of her children …
2123 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 98.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… with Jehovah. ( Genesis 28:4 ) What of these things was spiritual, we may readily believe, Esau discredited and despised, and what was temporal, but yet future, as …
2124 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 99.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… sojourned, “Jehovah appeared unto him,” and specially directed him to remain there, at the same time renewing to him the promises He had made to Abraham. Both …
2125 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 108.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… glorious Jehovah Himself, Who spake to the lonely sleeper below: “I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac.” Silent in their ministry, the …
2126 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 109.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew it not.” Quite another fear now came upon him from that of loneliness or of doubt. It was awe at the conscious presence …
2127 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 111.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… served Jehovah; while Rachel was attached to the superstitions of her father’s house; and even the natural character of the elder sister fitted her better …
2128 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 112.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , “Surely Jehovah hath looked upon my affliction;” Simeon (“hearing”), “Because Jehovah hath heard that I was hated;” Levi (“cleaving,” or “joined”), in the hope “Now this time …
2129 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 112.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… as Jehovah, but as Elohim, the God of nature, not the covenant-God of the promise.
2130 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 113.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , not Jehovah; while she seemed to see in the first of them a reward for giving Zilpah to her husband, whence the child’s name was called Issachar (“he gives,” or “he …
2131 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 114.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ), and Jehovah hath blessed me for thy sake.” The same attempt to place Jehovah as the God of Abraham by the side of the god of Nahor—not denying, indeed, the existence …
2132 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 116.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
“Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.”
2133 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 118.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… as Jehovah, the covenant-God of Abraham and of Isaac. Not one of these pleas could fail. That cry of despair was the preparation for what was to follow: Jacob was …
2134 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 119.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah in Whom was His Presence. “And when He saw that He prevailed not against him, He touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was …
2135 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 120.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ” was Jehovah. Jacob had, indeed, been the believing heir to the promises, but all his life long he had wrestled with God—sought to attain success in his own strength …
2136 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 121.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah had prevailed by prayer and entreaty, now also prevails by humility and modesty against Esau, who comes to meet him with four hundred men.” As already …
2137 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 132.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… . Accordingly “Jehovah was with him,” and “Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand.” His master was not long in observing this. From an ordinary domestic …
2138 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 134.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… did Jehovah made to prosper,” the whole management of the prison ultimately passed into Joseph’s hands. Thus, here also Jehovah proved Himself a faithful …
2139 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 140.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… by Jehovah, their heavenly King. We can scarcely wonder that Pharaoh should have at once appointed such a council or to superintend the arrangements he had …
2140 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 164.8 (Alfred Edersheim)
For Thy salvation wait I, oh Jehovah!