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... Assyrians , Phoenicians , and Canaanites . It is now certain that the speech of Canaan , Edom , and Moab were dialects of one language . The " language of Canaan " was one speech just as the speech of Britain is one language . The ...
... Assyrians , Phoenicians , and Canaanites . It is now certain that the speech of Canaan , Edom , and Moab were dialects of one language . The " language of Canaan " was one speech just as the speech of Britain is one language . The ...
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... Assyria , saw an altar that pleased him at Damascus and sent to his principal priest , Urijah , the fashion of the altar and the pattern of it , ac- cording to all the workmanship thereof , that a copy might be made for him ; and when ...
... Assyria , saw an altar that pleased him at Damascus and sent to his principal priest , Urijah , the fashion of the altar and the pattern of it , ac- cording to all the workmanship thereof , that a copy might be made for him ; and when ...
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... Assyria and smite the Philistines , but in his religious reformation he removed the high places and brake the pillars . We also now hear of one altar and one place of wor- ship that is alone permitted to the people of Judah , and that ...
... Assyria and smite the Philistines , but in his religious reformation he removed the high places and brake the pillars . We also now hear of one altar and one place of wor- ship that is alone permitted to the people of Judah , and that ...
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... Louvre . Some have thought that the cherub was a gift from the architecture of Assyria , but Ezekiel intimates that it came from Tyre . " Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth ; and I have set thee so that 9 SACRED PLACES 129.
... Louvre . Some have thought that the cherub was a gift from the architecture of Assyria , but Ezekiel intimates that it came from Tyre . " Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth ; and I have set thee so that 9 SACRED PLACES 129.
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... Assyria shows changes in divine authority which ran parallel to the changes in human govern- ment . The general tendency of civilization is to relieve itself of traditions no longer valuable , but the process is not rapid . The ...
... Assyria shows changes in divine authority which ran parallel to the changes in human govern- ment . The general tendency of civilization is to relieve itself of traditions no longer valuable , but the process is not rapid . The ...
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Page 67 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 178 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains : and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Page 150 - What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear ? And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites : for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God ; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Page 116 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Page 178 - If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high.
Page 104 - When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 161 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 72 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 181 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Page 195 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.