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2621 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 …
2622 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.
2623 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 147.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the choice of the people.
2624 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 …
2625 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 …
2626 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 ).
2627 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 …
2628 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 …
2629 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 …
2630 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 …
2631 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 …
2632 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 …
2633 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 …
2634 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 …
2635 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 …
2636 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 …
2637 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 …
2638 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 …
2639 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 …
2640 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 …