Bible History - Old Testament

- 68- So shall the waters of difficulty, nay, the cold flood of death itself, part, if we smite in faith with the heaven-given g ...

- 69- CHAPTER 8 : ELISHA THE PROPHET - Return to Jericho - Acknowledgment by the Sons of the Prophets - Healing of the Waters of ...

- 70- To men who entertained such notions, it would have been impossible to communicate even what Elisha had witnessed, still le ...

- 71- which he established his prophetic authority – very significantly in an act of blessing. The men of Jericho interceded wit ...

- 72- at the beginning of Elisha's ministry was so understood, appears from this circumstance that his ministry never afterwards ...

- 73- attention.^143 For although the exceeding danger from bears, especially when irritated, is frequently referred to in Scrip ...

- 74- CHAPTER 9 : JEHOSHAPHAT, (FOURTH) KING OF JUDAH - JORAM, (TENTH) KING OF ISRAEL - The Allied Expedition against Moab - Rec ...

- 75- Dibonite. My father reigned over Moab thirty years and I reign- ed after my father. And I erected this stone to Chemosh a ...

- 76- leadership of their brave king Mesha - a name which is connected with the word "deliverance." He styles his father Chemosh ...

- 77- disastrous occasion when Ahab asked him to go up against Ramoth-gilead (1 Kings 22:4). Perhaps, however, it was a common m ...

- 78- We read that the three kings went to the tent of Elisha. This not merely from apprehension that he might refuse to come to ...

- 79- time among all nations. Accordingly it is frequently represented on the Assyrian monuments,^157 and referred to in classic ...

- 80- Meantime, the commanders of the allied army would naturally keep their men within their camp, so as to allow the disorderl ...

- 81- But although the allied army could not reduce the city, "the slingers" posted on the overlooking heights might inflict ser ...

- 82- CHAPTER 10 : THE MINISTRY OF ELISHA AS THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LIVING GOD IN ISRAEL - The Prophet's Widow and h ...

- 83- The first narrative^162 in this biographical sketch - as for want of better name we may term it - has somewhat inaptly bee ...

- 84- miracle is still daily enacted, though not in the same manner as regards the succession of events? In truth, the two world ...

- 85- contiguity to the summer palace of Jezreel, which was perched on the hill above, occupying a position equally beautiful an ...

- 86- But the frequency of his visits, so far from inducing familiarity, only led to increased reverence on the part of the Shun ...

- 87- favorable light on that district, which (as all other parts of the country) would be primarily under the rule of its own e ...