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3701 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 …
3702 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 …
3703 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 …
3704 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 …
3705 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 …
3706 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 …
3707 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 …
3708 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 …
3709 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 …
3710 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 …
3711 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 …
3712 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 …
3713 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 …
3714 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 …
3715 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 …
3716 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 …
3717 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 …
3718 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 …
3719 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 21.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah as the King is the ground of joy. Whenever and wherever that Presence is wanting only unforgiven sin is beheld; wherever that shout is not heard …
3720 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 21.5 (Alfred Edersheim)
… did Jehovah now, as formerly ( 23:5, 16 ), “put a word in his mouth.” But “the Spirit of God came upon him” ( 24:2 ), in the same manner as afterwards upon Saul ( 1 Samuel 19:23 )—he was …