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1701 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 60.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the ages of the patriarchs, partially before the deluge, but chiefly between the deluge and the calling of Abraham,—the result being that the flood is …
1702 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 65.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ! The most remarkable ruins of that city are those of the old moon-temple of Ur, which from the name on the bricks are computed to date from the year 2000 before …
1703 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 66.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , at the age of two hundred and five years. The second call of Jehovah to Abram, as given in Genesis 12:1-3, consisted of a fourfold command, and a fourfold promise …
1704 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 78.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Abram. The age of each sacrificed animal, the long, lonely day, the birds of prey swooping around, and the horror that had come with the night, all betokened what …
1705 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 86.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , after the manner of those times, a great feast. We can scarcely say what the age of the child was,—whether one year, or, as Josephus implies, three years old. In either …
1706 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 88.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the exact age of Isaac at the time; but the computation of Josephus, that he was twenty-five years old, makes him more advanced than the language of the Scripture …
1707 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 91.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… course. The first thing we afterwards read is the death of Sarah, at the age of one hundred and twenty-seven. She is the only woman whose age is recorded in Scripture …
1708 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 93.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to the death of Abraham, at the “good old age” of one hundred and seventy-five, just seventy-five years after the birth of Isaac. To quote the significant language …
1709 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 96.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
In the quiet retirement of his old age Abraham not only witnessed the married happiness of his son, but even lived fifteen years beyond the birth of Esau and …
1710 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 102.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… thirty years of age ( Genesis 47:9 ). Hence, Jacob must have been ninety-one years old when Joseph was born; and as this happened in the fourteenth year of Jacob’s …
1711 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 123.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… fifteen years of age, in the language of the sacred text, “went out to see the daughters of the land,” or, as Josephus, the Jewish historian, tells us, to take part in …
1712 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 123.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… fulfill the promise which he had there made on fleeing from the face of Esau his brother. About ten years must have elapsed since the return of Jacob from Mesopotamia …
1713 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 124.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… anticipation, the death of Isaac, at the age of one hundred and eighty years, although that event took place twelve years after Jacob’s arrival at Hebron; and …
1714 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 127.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… at the “watch-tower of the flock.”Mr. R. S. Poole (in the article on Joseph, in Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible) writes: “The richer classes among the ancient Egyptians …
1715 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 142.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… years old on his elevation, the same age, we note, on which our blessed Lord entered on His ministry as “the Savior of the world,” “the Supporter of life,” and “the Revealer …
1716 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 148.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the youngest of their number, the son of Rachel, had been uniformly preferred before them all. And now it was the same in the Egyptian palace! If the Egyptian …
1717 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 157.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to the question about his age, compared “the days of the years” of his own “pilgrimage” with those of his fathers. Abraham had lived one hundred and seventy-five …
1718 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 1, p. 167.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of the third generation, and Manasseh’s grandchildren “were brought up upon his knees.” At the good old age of one hundred and ten years, as he felt death approaching …
1719 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 148.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to the number of days that the spies had searched the land, were to be the years of their wanderings in the wilderness, and of all that generation which had come …
1720 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 2, p. 169.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the Exodus, and at the age of one hundred and twenty-three years.