Politics & Religion in Ancient Israel: An Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament |
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Ahab Ahaz Ahikam altar Amos and Hosea Anathoth ancient appears Assyria Baal Babylon Benjamin berith blood Canaan Canaanite Captivity centuries CHAPTER Chimham City-state civilisation clan classes course court Crown 8vo cultus David desert destruction divine doubt Egypt Elisha Empires Exile Ezekiel fact father feast Gilgal Greek hand Hebrew Hezekiah High Priest holy Hosea idea individual Isaiah Israel Israelite Jehoiachin Jehoiakim Jeremiah Jeroboam Jerusalem Josiah Judah Judahite king king's kingdom kodesh land later League literature lived Manasseh Melek Micah monarchy moral nation nobles obvious Philistines picture political priesthoods primitive probably prophecy prophets recognised regard reign religion religious righteousness rites ritual sacred sacrifice Samaria Saul Saul's Shaphan shrine simply Solomon spiritual story Syrian Temple Testament thee things thou thought throne tion torah tribes unto whole word of Yahweh worship writer Yahweh Zebaoth Yahwism Zedekiah Zephaniah
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Page 292 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Page 80 - I am this day fourscore years old, and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat, or what I drink ? can I hear any more the voice of singing men, and singing women ? Wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king...
Page 131 - And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness : and thou shalt know the Lord.
Page 63 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided : they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Page 290 - Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not : Eyes have they, but they see not : They have ears, but they hear not...
Page 264 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 114 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Page 266 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee.
Page 234 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 174 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.