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301 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 160.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… from Jehovah, it had come, if not at the instigation of, yet in order to vindicate Moses and Aaron. In their ingratitude they even forgot that, but for the intercession …
302 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 160.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah,” they almost instinctively “faced towards the tent of meeting,” as the place whence their help came and to which their appeal was now made. Nor did …
303 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 160.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. And as Moses and Aaron entered the court of the tabernacle, “Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, Get you up from among this congregation, and I will consume …
304 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 163.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. And this may help us to understand what happened at the very outset of their pilgrimage. Israel was in Kadesh, or rather in the desert of Zin, the name …
305 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 164.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… before Jehovah”—no doubt the same with which the miracles had been wrought in Egypt, and under whose stroke water had once before sprung from the rock at Rephidim …
306 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 166.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that Jehovah would bring them into the land which He had given them; while, in their anger at the people, Moses and Aaron had not believed God, to sanctify Him …
307 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 167.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. In vain also did he limit his request to permission to use the ordinary caravan road—“the king’s highway”—without straying either to the right or …
308 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 3.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. But now, when the Lion of Judah couched by the banks of Jordan, Israel was face to face with its grand mission, and the grand task of its national life …
309 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 3.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… towards Jehovah, and Jehovah’s special dealings towards them as their King. Some modern negative critics have even broached the theory—of course, wholly …
310 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 8.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… far Jehovah, the God of Israel, had proved true to His word, and stronger than the gods of the nations who had been subdued. Farther progress, then, in the same direction …
311 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 9.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah God. In those days it turned upon the acknowledgment or the opposite of Jehovah as the only true and living God, as this is expressed in the first …
312 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 10.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… else Jehovah was really stronger than they. In either case Balaam would bring invaluable, and, if he only chose to exert it, sure help. For, according to heathen …
313 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 11.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… confessed Jehovah, sought and found him;” but that, “on the other hand, he was not sufficiently advanced in the knowledge and service of Jehovah to throw overboard …
314 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 11.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Israel. That a professional soothsayer like Balaam should have been quite ready, upon a review of their whole history, to acknowledge Jehovah as the …
315 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 13.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that Jehovah, the God of Israel, was God. The question now came: Would he recognize Him as the only true and living God, with Whom no such relationship could exist …
316 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 13.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Jehovah’s purpose, while the words, in which the power of blessing and cursing was ascribed to Balaam, were not only a transference to man of what belonged …
317 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 14.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , as Jehovah would speak unto him. And Jehovah did condescend to meet Balaam in his own way, and that night fully communicated to him His will. The garbled and …
318 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 14.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… did Jehovah God appear to, or deal with such an one as Balaam? Questions like these ought, with our limited knowledge of God’s purposes, not always to be entertained …
319 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 15.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… statement, “Jehovah refuses to give me leave to go with you” ( 22:13 ), implied an ungrounded arbitrariness on the part of God; confirmed Balak in his heathen views …
320 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 15.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, covetousness and ambition were the main actuating motives of Balaam. In the pithy language of the New Testament ( 2 Peter 2:15 ), he “loved the wages …