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... ancient work , lost to us , called The Book of the Wars of the Lord . Such a designation we can understand only if we realize that the Jews came to regard their wars as part of their divine destiny . It has been truly said that many a ...
... ancient work , lost to us , called The Book of the Wars of the Lord . Such a designation we can understand only if we realize that the Jews came to regard their wars as part of their divine destiny . It has been truly said that many a ...
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... sympathy with France helps us to understand the revanche of ancient Israel . In regard to the Ama- lekites , Israel continually felt the baseness of their attack upon him in the early days of the wilderness 28 The War and the Bible.
... sympathy with France helps us to understand the revanche of ancient Israel . In regard to the Ama- lekites , Israel continually felt the baseness of their attack upon him in the early days of the wilderness 28 The War and the Bible.
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... ancient grievance . The subsequent injuries inflicted upon Israel by his conquerors added to his resentment . He felt sure that the day of recompense must come . His wrongs must be righted before Righteousness came to its own . The day ...
... ancient grievance . The subsequent injuries inflicted upon Israel by his conquerors added to his resentment . He felt sure that the day of recompense must come . His wrongs must be righted before Righteousness came to its own . The day ...
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... ancient Israel was one of the most war- like peoples of history . Throughout the period trav- ersed by the Bible , the Israelites found themselves forced to face war , and there is no sign that they shrank from it . The object of the ...
... ancient Israel was one of the most war- like peoples of history . Throughout the period trav- ersed by the Bible , the Israelites found themselves forced to face war , and there is no sign that they shrank from it . The object of the ...
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... ancient Israel . Israel be- gins as a peaceable people , but at a very early stage of his history , he learns the necessity of war , and the need of acquainting himself with the methods and the material of warfare . Indeed , as we ...
... ancient Israel . Israel be- gins as a peaceable people , but at a very early stage of his history , he learns the necessity of war , and the need of acquainting himself with the methods and the material of warfare . Indeed , as we ...
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Page 111 - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Page 109 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 110 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of Hosts in the land of Egypt...
Page 106 - ... Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills ; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob ; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths : for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 71 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; My lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 10 - And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?
Page 9 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 110 - Thus saith the Lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you : for we have heard that God is with you.
Page 25 - Zeboim toward the wilderness. (Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Page 74 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.