Woman and Her Master, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1840 - Women |
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Page 108 - people refused to obey the voice of Samuel, and they said: Nay, but we will have a king over us, that we may be like other nations, that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Page 189 - receiveth it with good will at your hand. " Yet ye say, wherefore ? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously; yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Page 129 - the Lord, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. • " Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul; but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy
Page 130 - And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee-this day to meet me. And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou which hast kept me this • day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own
Page 129 - concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel, that this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself; but when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid."*
Page 72 - spite of their prophets and their legislators, drew down the reprobation of the " God of Abraham and of Isaac." " How long will these people provoke me, and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs I have shown among
Page 118 - And the woman had a fat calf in the house ; and she hasted and killed it, and took flour and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof." " And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants, and they did eat; then* they rose up and went away that night.
Page 128 - not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. " Now, therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies and they that seek evil
Page 110 - he was a choice young man and a goodly;" " and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he; from his shoulders and upwards he was higher than any of the people.
Page 138 - My lord, thou swearest by the Lord thy God unto thine handmaid, saying : assuredly, Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne. And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth ; and now, my lord the king, thou | knowest it not. •