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2561 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 …
2562 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 …
2563 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 …
2564 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 …
2565 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 …
2566 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 …
2567 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 26.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… and choice. Thus only could he be fitted or a calling which required such entire self-denial and self-sacrifice.However reasonable and evident these details …
2568 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 26.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… their choice ( Matthew 8:20 ) and before His disciples the absolute necessity of willing self-denial ( Luke 14:26 ), did Elisha endure, as must every one who is to do …
2569 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 57.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… deliberate choice of a course in direct opposition to the Will of God. For these two elements are always combined in manner to us inexplicable, yet very really …
2570 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 172.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… their choice. We mark, as significant synchronisms with the reign of Jehoram, the building of Carthage, and that the throne of Tyre was occupied by the brother …
2571 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 187.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… their choice ( ver. 4 ) show that their inclination was in favor of the old regime, while their fears dictated submission to the usurper. So Jehu had judged wisely …
2572 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 66.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ), the choice proved singularly happy. To adapt the language of the prophet Amos 9:11, which, as mostly all prophetic announcements of the Messianic future, takes …
2573 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 149.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… a choice in that which from any point of view implied direct Divine interposition. For evidently Hezekiah asked for such “a sign” as would be a pledge to him …
2574 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 150.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of it, “either in the depth or in the height above” ( Isaiah 7:11 ), so here a similar alternative was presented to Hezekiah. As Ahaz in his trust in natural …
2575 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 180.5 (Alfred Edersheim)
… popular choice of Jehoahaz was largely influenced by his opposition to Egypt. Of his brief reign of three months and, according to Josephus, ten days, we only …
2576 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 189.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… . His choice had fallen on Mattaniah (“the gift of Jehovah”), whose name was changed into Zedekiah (“the righteousness of Jehovah”).As that of Eliakim had been changed …
2577 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 195.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of either going to Babylon, where all honorable provision should be made for him, or of settling in any part of the country. With true patriotic feeling …
2578 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 28.4 (John Foxe)
… the choice of a successor declared for Stanislaus, and he succeeded to the prelacy.
2579 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 120.8 (John Foxe)
… the choice which the consistory and magistrates made of him, with the consent of the people, to be one of their ministers, and professor of divinity. He wanted …
2580 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, p. 122.2 (John Foxe)
… free choice which is made of me by Him. With my whole heart I embrace His mercy, through which all my sins are covered, for Christ’s sake, and for the sake of His …