 | William Jones - 1821 - 398 pàgines
...Abraham in the times before the law. In regard to his natural posterity it was said, Unto thy need have I given this land from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: this is a temporal promise : but to the same Abraham it was said, In thy seed shall all the nations... | |
 | 1822 - 554 pàgines
...passed between the parts of the sacrifice, as a token of the ratification of the promise. " In that same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,...land, from the river of Egypt, unto the great river Euphrates." Now, let it be observed, that this sign was given to Abram, for the express purpose of... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1822 - 472 pàgines
...burning lamp that passed between those pieces. And 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." Thus had God enjoined upon him the privation of animal life, as a religious service, and thus had his... | |
 | Ethan Smith - 1823 - 198 pàgines
...river Euphrates, and forever ; or to the end of the world. God promised to Abraham, Gen. xv. 18 — "Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river...Egypt, unto the great river, the river Euphrates." Exod. xxiii. 31 — uAnd I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 524 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Lady - 1824 - 452 pàgines
...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... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 552 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pàgines
...gave him the covenant of circumcision : and so \dbraham begat Isaac, and circumno seed.—In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto...of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates, do. xvii. 8: And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1827 - 620 pàgines
...the JSthiop his skin ?" the evening, he says, — " In the same day God made a covenant with Abraham, saying, — Unto thy seed have I given this land,...Egypt unto the Great River, the river Euphrates."* It deserves this distinctive appellation, in contrast with rivers generally, though not with the Nile;... | |
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In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, " Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates... 
