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2261 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 14.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , as Jehovah would speak unto him. And Jehovah did condescend to meet Balaam in his own way, and that night fully communicated to him His will. The garbled and …
2262 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 14.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… did Jehovah God appear to, or deal with such an one as Balaam? Questions like these ought, with our limited knowledge of God’s purposes, not always to be entertained …
2263 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 15.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… statement, “Jehovah refuses to give me leave to go with you” ( 22:13 ), implied an ungrounded arbitrariness on the part of God; confirmed Balak in his heathen views …
2264 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 15.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, covetousness and ambition were the main actuating motives of Balaam. In the pithy language of the New Testament ( 2 Peter 2:15 ), he “loved the wages …
2265 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 16.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah stood in the way for an adversary against him”—significantly, the angel of the covenant with a drawn sword, threatening destruction. The main object …
2266 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 17.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah ( 22:34 ). The proposal was as blundering, and argued as deep ignorance, as his former readiness to go with the ambassadors. For the question was not simply …
2267 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 18.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, seven altars were now built on the heights of Baal, and seven bullocks and seven rams offered upon them—a bullock and a ram on each altar. Leaving …
2268 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 19.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… whom Jehovah threatens not For, from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: Lo, a people dwelling alone, And not reckoning itself among …
2269 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 21.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Israel: Jehovah his God is with him, And the king’s jubilee in the midst of him. That is, the shout of jubilee on account of the abiding presence of Jehovah as their …
2270 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 21.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah as the King is the ground of joy. Whenever and wherever that Presence is wanting only unforgiven sin is beheld; wherever that shout is not heard …
2271 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 21.5 (Alfred Edersheim)
… did Jehovah now, as formerly ( 23:5, 16 ), “put a word in his mouth.” But “the Spirit of God came upon him” ( 24:2 ), in the same manner as afterwards upon Saul ( 1 Samuel 19:23 )—he was …
2272 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 22.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… aloes Jehovah planted, like cedars by the waters. Targum Onkelos: “as rivers flowing onward; as the watered garden by Euphrates—as aromatic shrubs planted …
2273 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 22.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… from Jehovah, but not yet spoken.This we gather from the addition of the words, “knowing the knowledge of the Most High” ( 24:16 ) besides, “beholding the vision of …
2274 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 24.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… away Jehovah from His people, and failed. He would now endeavor to turn the people from Jehovah. If he succeeded in this, the consequences to Israel—would be …
2275 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 24.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… against Jehovah. But on “the evil men and seducers” speedy judgment came. By God’s command the children of Israel were avenged of the Midianites. In the universal …
2276 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 34.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… : Lord Jehovah, Thou hast begun to show Thy servant Thy greatness and Thy strong hand. For what God is there in heaven or in the earth which doeth like Thy doings …
2277 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 35.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… —that Jehovah would provide for His congregation “a shepherd” “who may lead them out and bring them in” ( Numbers 27:16, 17 ). Little else was left to be done. In a series …
2278 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 35.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, and of His goodness and support to His people, as from the top of Pisgah. There was a strange symbolical aptness even in the ascent of the mount, 4,500 …
2279 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 36.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
“And Jehovah shewed Moses all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea …
2280 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 36.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah we dare not penetrate. Jewish tradition, rendering the expression ( Deuteronomy 34:5 ) literally, has it that “Moses the servant of Jehovah died there …