Bible History - Old Testament

- 45- creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and the ...

- 46- the ark." Yet another week, and he sent her forth a second time, when she returned again in the evening, bearing in her mo ...

- 47- Though it needs not such indirect confirmations to convince us of the truth of the narratives in the Bible, it is very rem ...

- 48- "Not to pursue this parallel further, it will be perceived that when the Chaldean account is compared with the Biblical na ...

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- 50- HISTORY OF THE PATRIARCHS (^) ...

- 51- CHAPTER 7: After the Flood - Noah's Sacrifice - Noah's Sin - Noah's Descendants. (GENESIS 8:15-9:28.) RIGHTLY considered, ...

- 52- described, in the words of St. Paul, as "the times of this ignorance" which "God winked at," (Acts 17:30) or as those when ...

- 53- Noachic commandments, which, according to them, were binding upon all Gentile proselytes. These were a prohibition (1) of ...

- 54- vileness of Ham. As we might have expected, the conduct of the brothers received meet reward, - the curse descended on Ham ...

- 55- is to give enlargement to Japheth, Jehovah the covenant-God is to be the God of Shem. Thus the primitive promise to Adam i ...

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- 57- CHAPTER 8: Genealogy of Nations - Babel - Confusion of Tongues (GENESIS 10-11 :10) IT was the Divine will, that after the ...

- 58- whom the race of Abraham sprang, and the descendants of Joktan (ver. 25). The descendants of Shem are exclusively Asiatic ...

- 59- cover two hundred square miles, or ten times the extent of London!^26 Such was the world-city, the first "beginning" of wh ...

- 60- Of the tower of Babel no certainly ascertained remains have as yet been discovered. It has commonly been identified with t ...

- 61- on the day of Pentecost; when, by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, another universal kingdom was to be founded, the firs ...

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- 63- CHAPTER 9: The Nations and their Religion (Job) A MODERN German writer has well said: "The birth of heathenism may be date ...

- 64- been largest the higher we ascend the stream of time, and the nearer we approach the period when early traditions were sti ...