| 1842 - 512 Seiten
...blessed scriptures contain several instances of the last words of God's children. Jacob exclaimed, ere he "gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost," " I have waited for thy salvation, О Lord." Joseph, before he expired, said, "I die, and God... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 772 Seiten
...is therein was from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. LECTURE 100. Against too fond partiality for individuals.... | |
| Luigi Cornaro - 1842 - 254 Seiten
...clear mind, a body in harmony with its parts, a consciousness of its dissolving to its mother earth, " he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, [or spirit,] and was gathered to his people." Was there pain or confusion ? judge ye. Did he... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - 1843 - 314 Seiten
...Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. 5. And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house:... | |
| Henry Blunt - 1844 - 368 Seiten
...work that thou gavest me to do." Having, therefore, given his simple directions for his funeral, " he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people." How plain and unadorned a narrative ! "he yielded up the... | |
| 1845 - 702 Seiten
...is therein, was from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, n that lifted up their hand against my lord the king. 29 ghost, and was gathered unto his people. CHAPTER L. 1 The mourning for Jacob. 4 Joseph eetteth leave... | |
| William Francis Wilkinson - 1845 - 194 Seiten
...were habitual and unquestioned 1 We read, " And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost,"1 that is, his spirit ; yielded it up to whom 1 can we hesitate to answer, " to the God of the... | |
| 1845 - 1174 Seiten
...to them the great interests of truth and of religion, and having made an end of commanding his sons, he " gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered peacefully unto his people." — Gen. xlix. Let us then ask, more distinctly,... | |
| 1845 - 600 Seiten
...to them the great interests of truth and of religion, and having made an end of commanding his sons, he " gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered peacefully unto his people." — Gen. xlix. Let us then ask, more distinctly,... | |
| Robert Willis - 1846 - 580 Seiten
...the same alluded to in the Holy Scriptures: ' And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.'" The second mode of burying the body entire is evidently... | |
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