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401 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 121.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah’s flock alone left dry.

402 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 121.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… : “For Jehovah and for Gideon!”—The faith which had made such trial of God was to be put to the severest trial—Israel.s camp was pitched on the height; probably on …

403 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 123.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah. The fears which all this inspired appear in the interpretation of the dream. But the dream itself was the result of the same feelings. Barley-bread …

404 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 127.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah, they should exalt Gideon as the great national hero. Accordingly, they now offered him the hereditary rule over, at least, the northern tribes. Gideon …

405 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 128.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah, and offered on it accepted sacrifice. Shiloh was deserted, and the high priest seemed set aside. Ophrah had been made what Shiloh should have been …

406 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 129.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah over Midian. Even his reply to the jealous wrangling of Ephraim does not sound like the straightforward language of one who had dismissed the …

407 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 129.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… that Jehovah-Ephod in the possession of Gideon’s sons at Ophrah. The present rising would in turn be the contending of Baal against the house of Gideon, and …

408 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 131.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… , Jotham (“Jehovah [is] perfect”), who succeeded in hiding himself, and thus escaped.

409 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 131.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… with Jehovah ( Joshua 24:26, 27 ). It was in this sacred spot that “the citizens of Shechem and the whole house of Millo” were now gathered to make Abimelech king! Close …

410 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 132.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… by Jehovah, is observed, but only to be prostituted to Baal. According to Leviticus 19:24, the produce of the fourth year’s fruit planting was to be brought as …

411 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3

Successors of Abimelech—Chronology of the Period Israel’s renewed Apostasy, and their Humiliation before Jehovah—Oppression by the Ammonites—Jephthah—His History and Vow—The Successors of Jephthah

412 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 136.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah, or to that in any other place than that He had chosen, or through any other than the Levitical priesthood. Accordingly, the sanctuary of Shiloh and …

413 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 137.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah. Then follows, in ver. 7, a general reference to the twofold contemporaneous oppression by the Ammonites in the east and north, and by the Philistines …

414 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 138.3 (Alfred Edersheim)

… against Jehovah, and now they saw and confessed their wrong towards Jephthah, and appealed to his generosity. In ordinary circumstances he would not have …

415 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 139.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… now Jehovah God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before His people, and shouldest thou possess it? Is it not so, that which Chemosh thy god giveth …

416 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 140.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… to Jehovah, and I will offer that a burnt offering.” We know that the vow was paid. The defeat of the Ammonites was thorough and crushing. But on Jephthah’s return …

417 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 141.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… of Jehovah. And his vow, which in the Old Testament always expresses the highest religious feeling ( Genesis 28:20; 1 Samuel 1:11; Psalm 116:14; Isaiah 19:21 ), is so …

418 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 141.2 (Alfred Edersheim)

… , that Jehovah would have connected victory and deliverance with such a horrible crime.

419 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 142.1 (Alfred Edersheim)

… to Jehovah”—for the simple reason that, as a burnt-offering, it is such. But where human beings are offered to Jehovah, there the expression is used, as in the case …