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501 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 …
502 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 …
503 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 …
504 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 …
505 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 …
506 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 …
507 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 …
508 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 …
509 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 …
510 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 …
511 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.
512 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 …
513 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 …
514 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 …
515 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 …
516 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 …
517 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 …
518 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 …
519 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 …
520 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 …