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29861 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 156.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… their character relatively to the Books of Samuel and of the Kings. These latter are prophetic, while the Books of Chronicles are hagiographic. In the one …
29862 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 170.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… in character, but only in extent and application, from what they already enjoyed. To use our former illustration, they were not other heights than those on …
29863 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 4.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… it, God in great mercy placed an agency, the origin, character, and object of which have already been indicated in a previous Volume. The Prophetic Order may …
29864 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 39.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Oriental character, though we feel sure it was neither from pride nor narrow national prejudice, that David refused to accept as a gift what had been humbly …
29865 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 50.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the character, the stability, and the object of royalty in Israel. Beginning with an evident reference to the great promise given to him and his house, David …
29866 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 62.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… person. God gave him “wisdom” not only far wider in its range, but far other in its character ( Proverbs 1:7; 9:10 ) than that of the East, or of far-famed Egypt, or even of …
29867 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 67.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… satisfactory character of these arrangements proved, that in this respect also “Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him” ( 1 Kings 5:12 ).The name is …
29868 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 81.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the character of Israel and of Israel’s king as “the servant” of the LORD, became, so to speak, more and more individualized during the progress of the Old Testament …
29869 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 83.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… as God’s dwelling forever, the symbolical character alike of the manifestation of His Presence and of its place could not have been absent from his mind …
29870 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 112.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the character of Rehoboam we know sufficient to form an accurate estimate. David had taken care to commit the upbringing of his son and successor to the prophet …
29871 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 130.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the character of his own “prophets,” and perhaps a secret hope that he might attach him to himself by a “reward,” prompted the words of the king. He would do honor …
29872 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 136.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… his character, perhaps his office of “Prophet,” the more so as the service of Jehovah might be supposed to be only altered in form, not abolished, by the adoption …
29873 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 144.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… in character and more general in practice under that of Abijah, appears from the notices of the reformation instituted by his successor, Asa. The former circumstance …
29874 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 170.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to God, a bush on the wilderness-mount, burning yet not consumed. A life full of the miraculous it is and must be, from the character of his mission—and yet himself …
29875 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 171.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… his character may be drawn from his name Elijah: My God Jehovah! though it is scarcely necessary to say that he did not assume it himself. Later Jewish tradition …
29876 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 19.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of God. Thus we see how the Old Testament itself, even where its distinctive character most clearly appeared, pointed to that fuller and more glorious manifestation …
29877 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 73.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… peculiar character of the country, which here abounds in steep precipices and sudden rocky heights and descents.
29878 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 74.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… in character the victory which God had given to Jehoshaphat. But may it not have been that Jehoshaphat had there addressed to the people, when going out to …
29879 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 75.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Jehoshaphat’s character and reign are not withheld. (2) The mention of definite names, such as that of the high-priest Amariah, and of Zebadiah, the chief of the …
29880 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 80.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… real character of the act. Was it because there was no God in Israel—that they went to inquire of the “fly god” of Ekron? But the authority of Jehovah would be vindicated …