Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

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T. Nelson, 1860 - 602 pages
 

Table des matières

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
259
Solomons Defection
261
BOOK XVIII
264
Jeroboam
267
The Seduced Prophet
270
Jeroboams Wife
273
Asa
276
Elijah with the Sareptan
279
Elijah with the Baalites
283
Elijah Running before Ahab Fleeing from Jezebel
287
BOOK XIX
291
Ahab and Naboth
295
Ahab and Micaiah or the Death of Ahab
299
Ahaziah Sick and Elijah Revenged
302
The Rapture of Elijah
306
Elisha Healing the WatersCursing the ChildrenRelieving the Kings
310
Elisha with the Shunammite
314
Elisha with Naaman
318
Elisha Raising the Iron Blinding the Assyrians
324
The Famine of Samaria Relieved
327
BOOK XX
330
Jehu with Jehoram and Jezebel
334
Jehu Killing the Sons of Ahab and the Priests of Baal
338
Athaliah and Joash
342
Joash with Elisha Dying
345
Uzziah Leprous
348
Ahaz with his New Altar
351
The utter Destruction of the Kingdom of Israel
352
Hezekiah and Sennacherib
354
Hezekiah Sick Recovered Visited
358
Manasseh
362
Josiahs Reformation
366
Josiahs Death with the Desolation of the Temple and Jerusalem
369
Zerubbabel and Ezra
372
Nehemiah Building the Walls of Jerusalem
378
Nehemiah Redressing the Extortion of the Jews
382
Ahasuerus FeastingVashti Cast offEsther Chosen
385
Haman Disrespected by MordecaiMordecais Message to Esther
389
Esther Suing to Ahasuerus
395
Mordecai Honoured by Haman
397
Haman HangedMordecai Advanced
399
Christ among the Gergesenes or Legion and the Gadarene Herd
460
Zaccheus
467
John Baptist Beheaded
475
The Five Loaves and Two Fishes
482
The Bloody Issue Healed
493
The Motion of the two Fiery Disciples Repelled
500
The Pool of Bethesda
507
The Same
513
The Same
522
The Thankful Penitent
528
Martha and Mary
534
The Stubborn Devil Ejected
541
The Tributemoney Paid
548
Lazarus Raised
554
The Figtree Cursed
564
Peter and Malchus or Christ Apprehended
571
The Crucifixion
581
The Resurrection
589

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Page 228 - And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 292 - I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts : because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left ; and they seek my life to take it away.
Page 449 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 371 - O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord, Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
Page 360 - In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Page 266 - Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Page 484 - And when it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
Page 270 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 330 - ... her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear : for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
Page 225 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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