Search for: Jehovah
3901 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 115.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. This is the meaning of what is rendered in our Authorised Version “in the hold” ( 22:4 ). We infer that this entrenched mountain-height was Mizpeh of Moab …
3902 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 117.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah. It was left to the Edomite to carry out what his reckless malice had instigated. That day no fewer than eighty-five of the priests in actual ministry …
3903 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 117.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah’s wings. But here also the attentive reader will trace a typical parallel between the murder at Nob and that of the children at Bethlehem—all the …
3904 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 117.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah” ( 23:2, 4 ), it is evident that the inquiry was made by the Urim and Thummim, we must conclude that Abiathar had reached David either after he had been preparing …
3905 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 120.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah,” and characterizing their deed as one of “compassion” on himself ( 23:21 ). But the danger which now threatened David was greater than any previously …
3906 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 …
3907 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 …
3908 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 …
3909 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 …
3910 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 …
3911 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 …
3912 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 …
3913 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 …
3914 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.
3915 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 …
3916 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 …
3917 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 …
3918 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 …
3919 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 …
3920 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 …