Bible History - Old Testament

- 145- himself in surety for Benjamin. His language was so calm, affectionate, and yet firm, as to inspire Jacob with what confi ...

- 146- in prison had commenced. Would they who had once sacrificed him on account of jealousy, be ready again to abandon his bro ...

- 147- be innocent, why should they stand by him? At home he had been set before them as the favorite; nay, for fear of endanger ...

- 148- Truly has Luther said: "What would I not give to be able to pray before the Lord as Judah here interceded for Benjamin, f ...

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- 150- CHAPTER 22: Departure of Jacob and his family into Egypt - Jacob's Interview with Pharaoh - His last Illness and command ...

- 151- remarked, that the Bible does not furnish the history of individuals as such, but gives that of the kingdom of God. This ...

- 152- the great Egyptian lord was once more only the lad Joseph. He "fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while." It n ...

- 153- they seek a country,.... a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for ...

- 154- God,^81 before Whose face walked my fathers, Abraham and Isaac; the God Who pastured^82 me from my existence on unto this ...

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- 156- CHAPTER 23: The Last Blessing of Jacob - Death of Jacob - Death of Joseph (GENESIS 49:1) THE last scene had now come, and ...

- 157- scatter them in Israel, so that they should not form independent and compact tribes. In point of fact, we know that even ...

- 158- Judah thou! Thy brethren shall praise thee! Thy hand in the neck of thine enemies, Thy father's sons shall bow down befor ...

- 159- And he bent his shoulder to bear, And became a tributary servant. The allusion in the case of Dan, or "judgment," is agai ...

- 160- In the case of Asher, the reference is evidently to the most fertile possession of that tribe, extending from Mount Carme ...

- 161- The allusions to Benjamin will be understood by a reference to Ehud (Judges 3:15), to Judges 5:14; 20:16; 1 Chronicles 8: ...

- 162- the Egyptians." Here the Egyptians remained behind, and none but the sons and the household of Jacob stood around his gra ...

- 163- of Joseph. And now long centuries of utter silence were to follow. During all that weary period, with the misery of their ...

- 164- streams mentioned as issuing from Paradise were the Tigris and the Euphrates, and we can readily conceive that the change ...