The Literature of the Old Testament in Its Historical Development |
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Ahab Ahaz altar Amaziah Amos Baal Babylonian behold bless blood Book of Kings Canaan Chronicler command covenant cult David death Deutero-Isaiah Deuteronomy earth Edom Egypt Elijah enemies evil exile Ezekiel father fear Gibeon glory God's hand heart heathen heaven Hebrew holy hope Hosea house of Yahweh iniquity Isaiah Israel Israelites Jacob Jehoiakim Jehoshaphat Jeremiah Jeroboam Jerusalem Jews Judæan Judah Judg king kingdom land later Levites Lord Yahweh Moab moral Moses nations Nebuchadrezzar oracle Philistines poems praise prayer predicted priestly priests prophecy prophet Psalm punishment reign religion religious righteous sacrifice sanctuary Saul says Yahweh Solomon song soul spirit story surely temple terrible thee thine Thou hast thou shalt told unto victory vision whole wicked wisdom words worship Yahweh of hosts Yahweh thy Zedekiah Zion
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Page 30 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 51 - Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
Page 314 - And unto man he said, Behold, The fear of the LORD, that is wisdom ; And to depart from evil is understanding.
Page 142 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,— Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 391 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 243 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, And to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Wilt thou call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the LORD?
Page 47 - Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces : and they said, The Lord, he is the God ; the Lord, he is the God.
Page 132 - And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart...
Page 132 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Page 290 - But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto My name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in My sight.