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27221 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 156.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… bring spiritual blessing to him. The sudden outburst of the king’s anger against Elisha indicates that he somehow connected the present misery of Samaria …

27222 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 190.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… and spiritual aspect, however fitted an instrument he might be to execute Divine punishment. And so Jehonadab left Jehu to perpetuate in his own tribe the …

27223 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 5.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… its spiritual and universal meaning to mark the unity, application, and unfolding of its underlying idea; and to point to its realization and completion …

27224 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 6.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… the spiritual understanding of His own Word.

27225 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 20.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… deeper spiritual elements had passed away from rulers and people. Nor is it otherwise than as those who, as it were, uttered this Divine protest that the prophets …

27226 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 21.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… for spiritual purposes. We must speak, because we believe; we deny that which is false only because we affirm and cherish the opposite truth. Otherwise we may …

27227 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7

… Text—Spiritual Lessons of this History—Accession of Jehoash—The Dynasty of Jehu and Reversal of the Policy of Ahab—The New Relation to the Prophets—Explanation …

27228 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 33.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… deeper spiritual reasons for the disasters of Israel in the increasing apostasy of king and people.

27229 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 35.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… the spiritual state of Israel ( ver. 6 ). They not only continued in the sins of Jeroboam, but “there stood the Asherah also in Samaria.” This parenthetic notice must …

27230 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 38.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… Israels spiritual, and with it of their national decline. It was needful that signal judgments should sweep away Ahab and all connected with his ways, and …

27231 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 38.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… their spiritual mission. One is tempted to say that the kings of Israel must have found these prophets exceedingly impracticable persons failing them …

27232 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 46.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… possessed spiritual insight, he would not have sought such help. As it was, “a prophet” was commissioned to warn him that if he went to battle relying on such aid …

27233 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 61.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… final spiritual realization in a happy future; and along with denunciations of impending judgment came the comfort of prophetic promises of the future …

27234 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 88.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… deeper spiritual import, everything in them must have been symbolic. Hence, every alteration would necessarily destroy the symmetry, the harmony, and with …

27235 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 103.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… and spiritual progression. Those petty wars with Syria, Edom, Moab, Ammon, and Philistia, which had filled the previous history, now ceased to be factors in it …

27236 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 106.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… its spiritual import and lessons. It only relates that the siege of Samaria lasted three years; that at the end of them—that is, in the ninth (or last) year of Hoshea …

27237 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 109.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… the spiritual instinct of their new nature rise to the recognition of Him Who ruleth, and of Whose government and purposes all events are the unbidden means …

27238 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 111.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… its spiritual aspect. Scarcely on any other occasion does the sacred writer allow himself reflections of this kind. But they are appropriate, and almost …

27239 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 129.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… their spiritual import on the theocracy. As regards the history which we have been hitherto reading from the Assyrian monuments, the account in 2 Kings 18 …

27240 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 7, p. 131.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of spiritual repentance which was the outcome of his ministrations, and which appeared most fully during the siege of Jerusalem, and at the later summons …