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3901 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 123.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… which Jehovah had spoken unto him,” is entirely true to Oriental nature and to the circumstances. Who would let such an opportunity pass? But it is not by our …

3902 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 127.4 (Alfred Edersheim)

… , as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, that (it is) Jehovah who has withheld thee from coming into blood-guiltiness, and from thy hand delivering thyself …

3903 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 128.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… in Jehovah the living God, whatever might were arrayed against David, and however the probabilities might seem other to the outward observer. Viewed in this …

3904 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 130.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah, and been unpunished? If Jehovah do not (literally, ‘unless Jehovah’) smite him [like Nabal], or his day be come and he die, or he go down into the war and be …

3905 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 131.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah, saying (thereby in effect): Go, serve other gods” ( 26:19 ). It is useless to follow the matter farther. Saul’s proposal for David’s return, and his promise …

3906 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 134.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah” by all the well-known means, from the less to the more spiritual, but without answer. That alone should have been sufficient, had Saul possessed spiritual …

3907 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 137.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… thunderbolt: “Jehovah thine enemy”; “Jehovah hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to David”; “thy sins have overtaken thee!” All this Saul knew long …

3908 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 138.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… in Jehovah his God.” His resolve was quickly taken. The first thing was to inquire of the Lord whether he should pursue the Amalekites. The answer was even fuller …

3909 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 141.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah.” At the proper time! But while these gifts were passing, all unknown to David, that time had already come.

3910 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 145.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… destroy Jehovah’s anointed ( 2 Samuel 1:14 ), proves that in the excitement of the moment he had regarded the account as substantially correct. The man had testified …

3911 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 145.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah and the house of Israel,” ver. 12 ). One of the finest odes in the Old Testament perpetuated their memory. This elegy, composed by David “to teach the children …

3912 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 147.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah, and of his having fully learned the lesson of not seeking to compass his own “deliverance,” that he took no steps to oppose the enthronement of Saul’s …

3913 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 155.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah’s vengeance upon Saul’s wrongs to David, the king gave no further reply than to point to what had hitherto been the faith and experience of his …

3914 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 161.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah.” So near had danger come, and so strongly did the king feel that he must take no step without Divine direction to avert it. For, placing ourselves on …

3915 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 161.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… hath Jehovah upon mine enemies before me.” To perpetuate this higher bearing of the victory, the spot was ever afterwards called “Baal-perazim” (“possessor of …

3916 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 162.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah had stood in the Tabernacle, according to the express ordinance of God.Keil reckons about twenty years to the victory of Ebenezer, forty years …

3917 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 162.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah Zevaoth, Who throneth upon the cherubim.” Much, indeed, had still to be left in a merely provisional state.We have translated the verse correctly …

3918 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 163.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… to Jehovah, in consequence of which the people had already so terribly suffered. Once more we must here place ourselves on the stand-point of the stage of religious …

3919 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 167.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… thank Jehovah” (i.e. the service of song) “by the hand of Asaph and his brethren.” On the other hand, however, the hymn in the Book of Chronicles is so closely and beautifully …

3920 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 167.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah’s reign over all men and over ransomed earth itself.