 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1848 - 412 páginas
...prophet's beautiful rebuke to the idol-makers ! DOVE'S DUNG, OR STAR OP BETHLEHEM. 2 KINGS vi. 25 " And there was a great famine in Samaria ; and behold,...of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver." This elegant little flower, of the lily tribe, is but once mentioned in Scripture. It is a native of... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 páginas
...The city was reduced to the last stage of desperation. Mothers boiled their own children for food. " An ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver,...of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver." They had surely little to hope for, being themselves miserable outcasts from society, bereft of friends... | |
 | James Munson Olmstead - 1848 - 300 páginas
...threatened with death from starvation. " There was a great famine," says the inspired historian, " in Samaria : And behold, they besieged it, until an...ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver." (2 Kings, vi. 25.) If these pieces of silver were shekels, then about the sum of forty dollars was... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1868 - 288 páginas
...translators were at fault as regards its signification. The story refers to the dearth in Samaria, when ' an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab [a Hebrew measure] of dove's dung for five pieces of silver." Gesenius's plea for the correctness of... | |
 | Church of England - 1849 - 1236 páginas
...after this, that Bcu-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. orn among yon, ind thou shalt love him as thyself...strangers in the land of Egypt : I am the LORD your piece* of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. And as the... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1849 - 574 páginas
...straitness of the siege wherewith your enemies have besieged you, an ass's head is sold for four score pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver."" He then entered at great length into the general questions of the insurrection and the abolition of... | |
 | 1850 - 830 páginas
...after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. 25 I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is "there done, my son? 17 And th ass s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for... | |
 | 1851 - 668 páginas
...after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria x gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was * a great famine in Samaria: and, behold,...of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a wo- j man unto him, saying,... | |
 | David Thomas - 1882 - 446 páginas
...after this, that Ben-hadad, king of Syria, gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold,...of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver." The inhumanity of the Syrian king and his hosts in invading Samaria is seen in three things. First:... | |
 | John Farrar - 1852 - 692 páginas
...distance, and obscure the sun in their passage." DOVE'S-DUNG. The expression occurs in 2 Kings vi. 25 : " And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold,...pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's-dung for five pieces of silver." There are various ways of explaining this : one is, that such... | |
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And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 
