| Congregational churches - 1824 - 524 pages
...ascertain the limit, which divided the ancient Canaan from Egypt. God said to Abraham, Gen. 15:18, "Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river...Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates." In Josh. 15:4, it is said>, that the border of Judah "went out unto the river of Egypt." The question... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...the kingdom of Israel in its utmost extent; for thus the land was promised to Abraham, Gen. xv. 18. Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river...of Egypt, unto the great river, the river Euphrates : and the extent of Solomon's kingdom is thus described, 1 Kings iv. 21. And Solomon reigned over all... | |
| Lady - Bible - 1824 - 452 pages
...shall call his name Isaac, and she shall be a mother of nations, and kings of people shall be of her. Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river Euphrates ; they shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall... | |
| Theology - 1824 - 400 pages
...which divided the ancient Canaan from Egypt. God said to Abraham, Gen. 15: 18. " Unto thy seed have! given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates." In Josh. 15:4, it is said, that the border of Judah " went out unto the river of Egypt." The question... | |
| Alexander Campbell - Baptism - 1824 - 428 pages
...will bless all the families of the earth in-thv ,<eed. Fourth, Unto thy seed have I given this laud from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Fifth, I will make thee the father .of many nations. Sixth, I will be a God unto thee and thy seeu... | |
| Voltaire - 1824 - 446 pages
...will I give it, and to thy seed for ever." The Lord, by a second oath, afterwards promised him all " from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates. "f The critics ask, how could God promise the Jews this immense country which they have never possessed... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 552 pages
...promise to the patriarch and his posterity: " In the same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abraham, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from...Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates." The same awful ceremonies were oh-, served by the people of Israel at the renovation of this covenant... | |
| William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...ziii. 14, 15. In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed Ьате I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates, xv. 18. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger,... | |
| William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - Christianity - 1826 - 806 pages
...was an exact fulfilment of the covenant the Lord made with Abraham ; " Unto thy seed have I given the land from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates." Gen. xv. 18. '; In ancient Jewish history it was peculiarly the office of the king to subdue the neighbouring... | |
| Andrew Thomson (of Bristol) - Bible - 1826 - 394 pages
...In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this laud, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates : the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the... | |
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