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2381 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 160.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… her choice, and the words in which she intimated it have deservedly become almost proverbial in the church. There is such ardor and earnestness about them …
2382 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 38.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… deliberate choice in view of the whole case, the “elders” persisted in their demand. And, truth to say, in the then political circumstances of the land, with the …
2383 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 40.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of Saul at the first, his failure afterwards, and his final rejection. The people obtained precisely what they wanted; and because he who was their …
2384 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 40.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… his choice in the first instance, and then for his fall and final rejection. But thus read, there is a strict unity about his whole history, and his outward religiousness …
2385 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 41.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… only “choice and goodly,” like all his race, but apparently as handsome as any man in the land, and taller than any by head and shoulders. In any country and age this …
2386 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 43.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of Eliab!
2387 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 49.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… his choice of either one or the other would be decisive, both so far as his life and his kingdom were concerned.
2388 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 50.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of Saul had been a secret between the messenger of the Lord and the new king. As in every other case, so in this, God would give the person called to most …
2389 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 51.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… their choice of another leadership implied. This not with the view of annulling the proposed establishment of royalty, but with that of leading the people …
2390 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 61.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… our choice between the imperative and the conditional mood, and the balance of argument is strongly in favor of the latter.
2391 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 147.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of the people.
2392 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 159.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… made choice: to be, as it were, a guarded sanctuary within the holy land. So long as Zion was in possession of the Jebusites, as the original Canaanite “inhabitants …
2393 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 4.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of Jerusalem as the City of God ( Psalm 46; 48; 87 .); and further presented in its aspect of peace, prosperity, and happiness in the reign of Solomon ( Psalm …
2394 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 103.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… made choice of Jerusalem as the place where He would forever reveal His Name ( 1 Kings 9:3 ).
2395 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 109.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Divine choice of Jerusalem and its Temple, were fatally put aside or forgotten by Jeroboam and his successors on the throne of Israel. The schism in the kingdom …
2396 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 115.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… their choice of this place. Jewish commentators expressly account for the gathering of the ten tribes at Shechem on the ground of their intention to make …
2397 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 151.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… believing choice of Jehovah as henceforth their God—just as it was afterwards renewed on two analogous occasions: in the time of Josiah ( 2 Kings 23:3; 2 Chronicles …
2398 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 169.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice implied. The difference between Noah and Elijah was only that of times and circumstances, the one was before, the other after the giving of the Law …
2399 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 13.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of the sacrificial animal, but they were many as against one. Nor could they complain so far as regarded the test proposed by Elijah, since their …
2400 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 18.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… personal choice, heart-willingness being secured by the persuasion of the Holy Ghost; while under the Old Testament (from its nature) religion was of Law. Religious …