Bible History - Old Testament

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- 9 - CHAPTER 1 :Purport and Lessons of the Books of Samuel - Eli - Hannah's Prayer and Vow - The Birth of Samuel - Dedication o ...

- 10- attaching to the priesthood. Next, we see in Samuel the real commencement of the Old Testament prophetic order. Not that t ...

- 11- preparing other instrumentalities - a prophet, who should receive and speak His Word, and another Nazarite, voluntarily de ...

- 12- It was surely in the noble despair of faith - as if in her own way anticipating the New Testament question: "Lord, to whom ...

- 13- prayed; and Jehovah gave me my asking which I asked of Him. And now I (on my part) make him the asked one unto Jehovah all ...

- 14- CHAPTER 2 : The Sin of Eli's Sons - Eli's Weakness - A Prophet's Message -Samuel's First Vision - His Call to the Propheti ...

- 15- services of the Day of Atonement. Moreover, He had made ample provision for all their wants. All this had been granted in ...

- 16- It was still night, though the dawn was near.^38 The holy oil in the seven-branched candlestick in the holy place was burn ...

- 17- humiliation and resignation, though apparently without that resolve of change which alone could have constituted true repe ...

- 18- CHAPTER 3 : Expedition against the Philistines - The Two Battles of Ebenezer - Death of Eli's Sons, and Taking of the Ark ...

- 19- way beyond, Mizpeh, "the look out," about two hours to the north-west of Jerusalem.^44 The Philistines had pitched a short ...

- 20- the slopes which led to Shiloh, "with clothes rent and earth upon his head," in token of deepest meaning, ran a Benjamite, ...

- 21- threshold, as if each entrant should in contempt tread upon these caricatures of ideal humanity; and nothing but the Dagon ...

- 22- The advice of the priests was literally followed. The ark, with its trespass- offerings,^56 was placed on a new cart, whic ...

- 23- superstition and profanity would entail judgment at His Hand. What the peculiar desecration or sin of the Beth-shemites ma ...

- 24- CHAPTER 4 : Samuel as Prophet - The Gathering at Mizpeh - Battle of Eben-ezer; Its Consequences - Samuel's Administration ...

- 25- by the form of the Hebrew verb, that that return had indeed commenced and was going on - "put away the strange gods (Baali ...

- 26- and "Jehovah answered him." The great thunder-storm on that day, which filled the Philistines with panic, was really the L ...

- 27- seven," or "of the oath," on the southern boundary of the land. Their office seems to have been chiefly, if not exclusivel ...