 | Thomas Maurice - 1820 - 678 pages
...diviner, saith ; I shall see him (the Messiah,) but not now ; £ shall behold him, but not nigh ; there shall come a STAR out of Jacob, and a SCEPTRE shall rise out of Israel. The light of this STAR, now faintly glimmering, and now transcendently luminous, beamed through all... | |
 | John Trumbull - 1820 - 248 pages
...ascend, and skim before my eyes. * There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall arise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy afi the children of Sheth. Chap. xxiv, 17, &c. V. Dimly on the skirt of night, O'er thy sons the cloud... | |
 | Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pages
...Israel should destroy the Nations of that Country, and that his Kingdom should 47 be exalted ; — There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall...the corners of Moab, and destroy all the Children of Sheth. And Balaam gave counsel to Balalc, that he should entice the Israelites to Idolatry, and that... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 618 pages
...prophecy, he proceeds : 17. I can see him, but it is not yet; I can behold him, but it is not near ; There shall come a star out of Jacob, And a sceptre shall...corners of Moab, And destroy all the children of Seth. The Targum of Onkelos is, " I shall see him, but not now : I shall behold him, but he is not near.... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1822 - 356 pages
...blessed Saviour ; and these were Balaam and Job. , 25 Q. What did Balaam say concerning Christ? A. There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a •sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners ofMoab, and destroy all the children ofSet/i ; Seir and Edam shall be a possession ; and out of Jacob... | |
 | Hart Simonds - 1822 - 334 pages
...but not now: 1 shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, 'and shall smite the corners of Moab, and restroy all the children of Sheth." In Isaiah, xlix; 23~. " And kings shall be thy nursing fathers,... | |
 | Gilbert Gerard - 1823 - 462 pages
...knowledge of these symbols will serve for determining their meaning. Warburton, ib. Num. xxiv. 17. "There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel." Hierogl. "a god — a king." 103. The invention of alphabetical writing has always been, with reason,... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 458 pages
...of that Prince, of whom (as they might easily have heard) it had been so very long foretold, " There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel -J-." And it is a very remarkable circumstance, that one of the ancient commentators on the Timaeus... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1823 - 478 pages
...xxiv. 17, 19.) I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : There shall PROP, come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out X1V1_ of Israel ; out of Jacob shall come he that shall ' have dominion ; — are words so put in his... | |
 | 1876 - 352 pages
...come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch." — Jeremiah xxiii. 5. " There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel." — Numbers xxiv. 17. " I (Jesus) am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning... | |
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I shall see him, but not n'ow; I shall behold him, but not nigh; There shall come a Star out of Jacob, And a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite the corners of Moab, And destroy all the children of Sheth. 
