| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1804 - 442 pages
...this point of view, he sacrificed empty honor to solid glory, and exclaimed in this heroical style; If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more. Moreover, before Balak, in the presence of all his courtiers,... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 428 pages
...And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to 13 thy messengers which thou seutest unto me, saying, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and...[either] good or bad of mine own mind ; [but] what the LORD saith, that will I speak ; thus endeavouring to m,oderate Balak's anger, and to obtain a patient... | |
| Job Orton - Bible - 1805 - 430 pages
...making an excellent reply, if he had but kept to it, answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or 19 more, that is, any thing at all. Now therefore, I pray you,... | |
| Laurence Howel - Bible - 1807 - 588 pages
...; yet he did not disapprove of the offer, and only tells the messengers, " If Balak would give tne his house full " of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the " Lord- my God." But to shew his wicked inclination to the promised reward, he fawningly... | |
| Samuel Shuckford - History, Ancient - 1808 - 582 pages
...very great honours, if they could serve political views and designs ; but if they rtalljf tcould not go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of their own mind,- but &hat (he Lotd saidj that they would speak,-* then they • Numb. rxii. 3, 4, 5.... | |
| Bible - 1808 - 524 pages
...12 glory. Whereupon Balaam said to Balak, Did I not tell thy mes13 'sengers whom thou sentest to me, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot transgress the word of the Lord, to do either good or evil, of my own mere will. Whatever 14 God may... | |
| William Gilpin - 1809 - 468 pages
...language ; Spake I not unto thy meffeijgers, faying, If Balak would give me bis boufe full of filver and gold> I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord> to do either good or bad. And when the king, overcome with his perverfenefs, difmifled him at length with threatenings, he retired... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. 18 And Balaam answered and sakl unto the servants of Balak, God, but keep his commandments: 3 And might not be as their fathers, a MS. TJie word of the LORD my God, to do less or more. 19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this... | |
| 1864 - 868 pages
...of the prophet's mind, and the irresistible character of the prophectic impulse : — ' ' If Halak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more." Noah was a prophet; and, as a prophet, speaking by inspirvtion,... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 430 pages
...therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his• house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of tlie LORD my GOB, to do less or more. • Now therefore, I prriy you, tarry ye also here this... | |
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