 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 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
...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 the river...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 - 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 - 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) - 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... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...\dbraham begat Isaac, and circumno seed.—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, 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 pages
...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, from the river...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... 
