 What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned ? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which...  Bible sketches and their teachings - Page 207de Samuel Gosnell Green - 1865Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Eadie - 1857 - 870 pages
...m.iKetli a lie. FOXE3. HULL BUT ctnnrrjto. SOI. 17, S. Now Toblah the Ammonite mis by him, and ha slid, f the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to t brook down their stone wall. Ps. Isiil. 10. They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for... | |
 | 1858 - 624 pages
...failure they will glorify their own sagacity in the words of some forefathers of that particular race, " What do these feeble Jews ? — Even that which they...go up, he shall even break down their stone wall." (Nehemiah iv. 2, 3.) Let not those brethren be troubled or dismayed by these modern Sanballats, but... | |
 | Herbert Edward Ryle - 1893 - 430 pages
...quickly? 'In a day' might be rendered 'in the day,' as if they said, the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their 4 stone wall. Hear, O our God ; for we are despised : and turn their reproach upon their own head,... | |
 | Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society (Pittsfield, Mass.) - 1894 - 918 pages
...consecration of the second edifice of St. James' church, Great Barrington. He took the passage from Nehemiah : "Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall!" But there are other servants of (rod farther back in the past, who were content to toil and to suffer,... | |
 | Albert Elijah Dunning - 1894 - 596 pages
...articles of their despised faith on that spot. ' What do these feeble Jews?' said a sneering world. 'Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.' Now five hundred men, the representatives of three thousand churches, the representatives of ideas... | |
 | Albert Elijah Dunning - 1894 - 600 pages
...articles of their despised faith on that spot. ' What do these feeble Jews?' said a sneering world. 'Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.' Now five hundred men, the representatives of three thousand churches, the representatives of ideas... | |
 | Elwood Morris Wherry - 1895 - 500 pages
...ground or a hearth." "What do these feeble Jews?" said Sanballat, and it was the Ammonite's sneer, " Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall." But the scoff has passed, and wonder takes its place. Sixthly, and now the wonder culminates. All these... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1889 - 378 pages
...built. Tobiah put his case figuratively — he looked round at those who sat by him and he said, " Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall." Tobiah therefore said, " Gentlemen, sit down, there is no occasion for you to distress yourselves :... | |
 | John Mason Neale - 1895 - 308 pages
...bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings." When the enemies said of the walls of Jerusalem, " Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall," how does Nehemiah answer ? " The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far... | |
 | John Mason Neale - 1896 - 326 pages
...mockery and scoffing of their enemies : of the temple, as afterwards of the wall, it was said : " Behold that which they build ; if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall." You see the likeness still, dear Sisters. You know that this life you have chosen is not in favour... | |
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