The Progress of Religious Ideas, Through Successive Ages, Band 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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Seite 364 - thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him. But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone
Seite 385 - the voice of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." Saul accordingly went up against the
Seite 376 - gods which ye have chosen. Let them. deliver you in the time of your tribulation. And the children of Israel said, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim. And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served
Seite 402 - of Judah. And the priests had the Book of the Law of the Lord with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people." However, when the power of Syria was growing dangerously strong, he combined with
Seite 238 - Chaldean shepherds, ranging trackless fields, Looked on the Polar Star, as on a guide And guardian of their course, that never closed His steadfast eye. The Planetary Five With a submissive reverence they beheld; Watched from the centre of their sleeping flocks Those radiant Mercuries, that seemed to
Seite 396 - this house which I have built ! But hearken unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place. Hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from Heaven, and when thou hearest forgive.
Seite 374 - and wrote the words in the book of the Law of God, and took a great stone and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. And he said,
Seite iii - teachers nnto every age, To every clime, and every race of men, With revelations fitted to their growth And shape of mind, nor gives the realm of TRUTH Into the selfish rule of one sole race:
Seite 374 - will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And the people answered, The Lord our God brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, and drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites, which dwelt in the land; therefore will we serve the Lord. And Joshua said to the people,
Seite 374 - he said, This stone hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he spake unto us; it shall therefore be a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.