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301 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 …
302 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 …
303 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 …
304 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 …
305 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 …
306 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 …
307 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 …
308 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 …
309 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 …
310 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 …
311 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 …
312 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 …
313 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 …
314 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 …
315 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 …
316 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 16.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah stood in the way for an adversary against him”—significantly, the angel of the covenant with a drawn sword, threatening destruction. The main object …
317 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 17.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah ( 22:34 ). The proposal was as blundering, and argued as deep ignorance, as his former readiness to go with the ambassadors. For the question was not simply …
318 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 18.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, seven altars were now built on the heights of Baal, and seven bullocks and seven rams offered upon them—a bullock and a ram on each altar. Leaving …
319 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 19.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… whom Jehovah threatens not For, from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: Lo, a people dwelling alone, And not reckoning itself among …
320 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 21.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Israel: Jehovah his God is with him, And the king’s jubilee in the midst of him. That is, the shout of jubilee on account of the abiding presence of Jehovah as their …