Bible History - Old Testament

- 85- horror that had come with the night, all betokened what Jehovah now foretold: how for three generations the seed of Abram ...

- 86- Hagar had returned to Abram's house, and given birth to Ishmael. And now ensued a period which we must regard as of most s ...

- 87- form to him. This time it was, as it seemed, three wayfarers, whom the patriarch hastened to welcome to the rest and refre ...

- 88- was even more terrible than could have been anticipated. The last brief night of horror in Sodom was soon past; and, as th ...

- 89- traveled in a south-easterly direction, where he settled in the territory of Abimelech, king of Gerar, in the land of the ...

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- 91- CHAPTER 14: Birth of Isaac - Ishmael sent away - Trail of Abraham's faith in the Command to sacrifice Isaac -Death of Sara ...

- 92- everything, - even his natural paternal affection. And in His tender mercy God once more made the trial easier, by bestowi ...

- 93- God to bring Isaac as a burnt-offering. Nothing was spared the patriarch of the bitterness of his sorrow. It was said with ...

- 94- "confirmed by an oath," "that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie," he "might have a strong ...

- 95- first-born we should consecrate all and everything unto the Lord. Perhaps the lesson which the Canaanites might learn from ...

- 96- No other spot in the Holy Land holds so much precious dust as this; and it is, among all the so-called "holy places," the ...

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- 98- CHAPTER 15: The Marriage of Isaac - Birth of Esau and Jacob - Esau sells his Birthright - Isaac at Gerar - Esau's Marriage ...

- 99- master's house, with the kindred of Abraham, and hence with the object of his journey. His prayer was scarcely finished wh ...

- 100- of Isaac and Rebekah had remained unblessed with children, to indicate that here also the heir to the promises must be a ...

- 101- promise, instead of believingly waiting to see when and how the Lord would do it. Thus it came that Jacob, watching his o ...

- 102- Esau, by his conduct, pronounced upon himself: "and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way; thus Esau despis ...

- 103- from twenty-five to fifty times that which had been sown; and in one small district, even eighty times that of wheat, and ...

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