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29841 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 5.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… fundamental character of all ancient heathen religions. The object of Israels worship and services was never to deprecate, but to pray. There was no malignant …
29842 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 8.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… typical character. These two institutions were the Prophetic Order and the Monarchy. Both are connected with the history of Samuel. And this explains alike …
29843 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 18.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… temporary character. The “curtains” which in the wilderness had formed its enclosure, had no doubt been exchanged for buildings for the use of the priesthood …
29844 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 22.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… spiritual character of the relationship between God and themselves, nor yet that of His ordinances in Israel.Literally, “his eyes stood” ( 1 Samuel 4:15 ). Through …
29845 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 22.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… its character, and the calling of God’s people into a warrant for carnal pride of nationality. In truth, however different in manifestation, the sin of Israel …
29846 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 26.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… malignant character.
29847 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 27.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… character than in the advice which these priests pressed upon their people. Evidently they were fully acquainted with the judgments which the God of …
29848 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 31.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Nazarite—God-devoted, stern, unbending, true to his calling, whithersoever it might direct him,—such was ever the life and the character of Samuel! Second, probably …
29849 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 48.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the character of that influence, but even from the language in which it is described. Thus we read that the Spirit of Elohim “seized upon” Saul, suddenly and mightily …
29850 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 50.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… his character and religious bearing offered. He was the typical Israelite of his period, and this neither as regarded the evil-disposed or “sons of Belial …
29851 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 63.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the character of Saul’s kingdom. Upon this, of course, the permanency of that kingdom would depend. We have already seen that Saul represented the kind of monarchy …
29852 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 67.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… noble character is not presented to us in Scripture than that of Jonathan. Weary of the long and apparently hopeless inactivity, trustful in Jehovah, and …
29853 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 72.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… its character and from its bearing on the kingdom which God would establish in Israel. Along with these outward successes the sacred text also indicates …
29854 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 74.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… over God’s people. The character of this kingdom had been clearly explained by Samuel at Gilgal in his address to king and people ( 1 Samuel 12:14, 20, 21, 24 ). There …
29855 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 90.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… prefigurative character of the history of David. As “the brothers” and near kinsfolk of our blessed Lord misunderstood His motives, and could not enter into …
29856 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 100.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of God’s teaching, and regards the earlier periods in the history of God’s kingdom as on exactly the same level as the New Testament, not only most seriously …
29857 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 114.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… different character. How in those times of persecution outlaws became heroes, and of what deeds of personal bravery they were capable in the wars of the Lord …
29858 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 115.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… different character. It seems highly probable that the tidings reached the Naioth, and that it was from thence that Gad (afterwards David’s “seer” and spiritual …
29859 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 135.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… its character. In this sense the notice in 1 Chronicles 10:14 affords a true and spiritual insight into the transaction. Already the utter darkness of despair …
29860 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 136.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… its character as not earthly. But in that supernatural light she has also recognized her visitor as the king of Israel. Verses 13, 14 show that Saul had not himself …