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2341 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 115.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Joash—“Jehovah strength,” or “firmness.”Ophrah means township. This Ophrah is to be distinguished from that in Benjamin. “My father is help.”
2342 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 116.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, the Angel of the Covenant, Who in similar garb had visited Abraham at Mamre ( Genesis 18 ). Only there He had come, in view of the judgment about to burst …
2343 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 116.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah for Israel had burned deep into his heart, we can understand how the humiliating circumstances under which he was working in his father’s God …
2344 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 116.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah’s past dealings, nor that he questions His present power, but that he believes that, if Jehovah had not withdrawn from Israel, their present calamities …
2345 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 117.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ” was “Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression …
2346 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 118.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… also Jehovah gives an answer, and that for all times: “Peace to thee fear not thou shalt not die!” And in perpetual remembrance thereof—not for future worship …
2347 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 118.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… begin. Jehovah had called—would Gideon be ready to obey? For judgment must now begin at the house of God. No one is fit for His work in the world till he has begun …
2348 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 119.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah could not be reared till that of Baal had been cast down. It was now built, and that not in some secret hiding-place, but on “the top of this defense”—either …
2349 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 119.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah was now alone professed. Moreover, the whole clan Abiezer, and, beyond it, all who had heard of Gideon’s deed, perpetuated even in his name, were prepared …
2350 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 121.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah’s flock alone left dry.
2351 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 121.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… : “For Jehovah and for Gideon!”—The faith which had made such trial of God was to be put to the severest trial—Israel.s camp was pitched on the height; probably on …
2352 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 123.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. The fears which all this inspired appear in the interpretation of the dream. But the dream itself was the result of the same feelings. Barley-bread …
2353 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 127.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, they should exalt Gideon as the great national hero. Accordingly, they now offered him the hereditary rule over, at least, the northern tribes. Gideon …
2354 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 128.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, and offered on it accepted sacrifice. Shiloh was deserted, and the high priest seemed set aside. Ophrah had been made what Shiloh should have been …
2355 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 129.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah over Midian. Even his reply to the jealous wrangling of Ephraim does not sound like the straightforward language of one who had dismissed the …
2356 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 129.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that Jehovah-Ephod in the possession of Gideon’s sons at Ophrah. The present rising would in turn be the contending of Baal against the house of Gideon, and …
2357 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 131.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , Jotham (“Jehovah [is] perfect”), who succeeded in hiding himself, and thus escaped.
2358 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 131.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… with Jehovah ( Joshua 24:26, 27 ). It was in this sacred spot that “the citizens of Shechem and the whole house of Millo” were now gathered to make Abimelech king! Close …
2359 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 132.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… by Jehovah, is observed, but only to be prostituted to Baal. According to Leviticus 19:24, the produce of the fourth year’s fruit planting was to be brought as …
2360 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3
Successors of Abimelech—Chronology of the Period Israel’s renewed Apostasy, and their Humiliation before Jehovah—Oppression by the Ammonites—Jephthah—His History and Vow—The Successors of Jephthah