Sunday Evenings, Or, An Easy Introduction to Reading of the Bible: Designed for Sunday Reading and Sunday-school LibrariesJ. & J. Harper, 1833 - Bible stories, English |
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... happy to say , I have a much more pleasing subject to talk about ; for we are now come to the history of the prophet Elijah's blessed departure from a world , which to him had been full of trouble . You have already heard , my love ...
... happy to say , I have a much more pleasing subject to talk about ; for we are now come to the history of the prophet Elijah's blessed departure from a world , which to him had been full of trouble . You have already heard , my love ...
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... happy world , and long to go , after our death , where Enoch and Elijah were taken up without dying ? Happy , my child , shall we be if we make this use of the prophet's story : happy , if our thoughts follow his chariot of fire , and ...
... happy world , and long to go , after our death , where Enoch and Elijah were taken up without dying ? Happy , my child , shall we be if we make this use of the prophet's story : happy , if our thoughts follow his chariot of fire , and ...
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... happy she must have been , mother ! M. Happy , indeed ! She had not asked in vain for the prophet's help . We are not told any thing more about her in the Bible ; but we can easily im- agine what her feelings must have been when she ...
... happy she must have been , mother ! M. Happy , indeed ! She had not asked in vain for the prophet's help . We are not told any thing more about her in the Bible ; but we can easily im- agine what her feelings must have been when she ...
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... happy , for she thought it a great honour to entertain so distinguished a servant of the Almighty ; and she felt that so holy a man as Elisha could not visit her house without bringing blessings along with him . At length , in her great ...
... happy , for she thought it a great honour to entertain so distinguished a servant of the Almighty ; and she felt that so holy a man as Elisha could not visit her house without bringing blessings along with him . At length , in her great ...
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... happy already , had they had such an offer as this made them , would have begun directly to wish for something more than they had ; to desire to be made either richer or greater . But the Shunammite and her husband were contented as ...
... happy already , had they had such an offer as this made them , would have begun directly to wish for something more than they had ; to desire to be made either richer or greater . But the Shunammite and her husband were contented as ...
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Page 163 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Page 177 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of Heaven hath given me all the Kingdoms of the earth ; and He hath charged me to BUILD HIM AN HOUSE at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 88 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Page 122 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day, nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand ; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation, there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any...
Page 195 - Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 69 - And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel : their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
Page 144 - ... the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 56 - And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man ; and he saw : and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Page 19 - And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
Page 74 - And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.