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94701 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Isaiah, 8-9.20
… sublime faith in the sacrosanct character of Zion, as some do, is unwarrantably to create a new Isaiah of greatly reduced proportions, a mere preacher of righteousness …
94702 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Isaiah, 8-9.36
… , and Faithfulness of the Providence of the One True God" (ibid., 496).
94703 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Isaiah, 8-9.40
… to faith. Faith has to do with the future, even as prediction has to do with the future; and the Old Testament is preeminently a book which encourages faith. There …
94704 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ishmael (1).12
… governor’s faith in Ishmael was not to be shaken; he even looked upon Johanan’s report as false and calumnious ( Jeremiah 40:16 ).
94705 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, History Of, 1.86
… his faith in God. This generation had to die in the wilderness, because it lacked the sanctified courage to take possession of the land of promise. But the foundation …
94706 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, History Of, 2.10
… the faithful watchman of the most sacred possessions of Israel, a prophet such as the people had not seen since the days of Moses; and he doubtless was the founder …
94707 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, History Of, 2.16
… remained faithful to him. The northern tribes chose for their king Jeroboam (I), who before this had already taken part in rebellious agitations, as the kingdom …
94708 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, History Of, 3.5
… that faithful prophets of Yahweh, such as the Abijah of Shiloh mentioned above, and Shemaiah ( 1 Kings 12:22 ff), proclaimed that the fateful division of the kingdom …
94709 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, History Of, 3.10
… the faithful worshippers of Yahweh. The fact that these men protested against the tolerance of this foreign false religion was interpreted as disobedience …
94710 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, History Of, 3.30
… the faithful prophet Zechariah, the son of his benefactor Jehoiada, who rebuked him for his wrong, and was even stoned. A just punishment for this guilt was …
94711 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, History Of, 3.49
… the faithful prophets of Yahweh. According to a tradition, which it must be confessed is not supported by undoubted testimony, Isaiah also, now an old man, became …
94712 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, History Of, 3.76
… the faithful. He succeeded in freeing Jerusalem from the Syriansú He restored the temple on Mt. Zion. The temple was dedicated anew and was given over to the …
94713 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Kingdom of.32
… primitive faith and worship. Just as the Wahhabis went back to Mohammed’s doctrine, as contained in the Koran and the Tradition, and as the Rechabites preserved …
94714 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.54
… the faith (Seth, Noah, etc.), down to Abraham. But this view does not find confirmation in the Biblical record. On the contrary, in Joshua 24:2, 15, it is even expressly …
94715 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.58
… their faith may have been unfavorably influenced, and it is not impossible that the religious disagreement between the patriarch and his neighbors may …
94716 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.65
… the faith in spirits. Then the closer study of such Semitic be`alim teaches us that they were not originally conceived in such a narrow sense. They are very …
94717 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.75
… the faithful worshippers of Yahweh after the days of Moses ever recognized as equal and of the same rank with their own God the gods of the heathen must be …
94718 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.5
… of faith demanded by the conquest of the land of Canaan. In the same way, the heroic struggles of Joshua, carried on under the directions of Yahweh and resulting …
94719 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.19
… were faithful to Yahweh. It now became a question of life and death, so far as the religion of Yahweh was concerned. The struggle involved not only certain old …
94720 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.22
… the faithful worshippers of Yahweh in later times were compelled to experience often enough, served greatly to intensify and to spiritualize their religion …