This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ... by cunning as well as fidelity. When the prosperity of the one family and the jealousy of the other rendered peace impossible, Jacob, at the command of God, secretly dep uted, to go to Canaan. Laban pursued him; but being warned by God to do him no harm, returned home after making a treaty of peace. He seems to have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ... by cunning as well as fidelity. When the prosperity of the one family and the jealousy of the other rendered peace impossible, Jacob, at the command of God, secretly dep uted, to go to Canaan. Laban pursued him; but being warned by God to do him no harm, returned home after making a treaty of peace. He seems to have known and worshipped God, Gen. 24: 50; 30: 27; 31: 53; but the "gods" or teraphim which Rachel stole from her father, Gen. 31: 30, 34, show that he was not without the taint of idolatry. LA'CHISH, a city in the south-west part of Jud vh, Josh. 10: 3, 5, 31; fortified by Rehoboam, 2 Chr. 11:9, and strong enough to resist for a time the whole army of Sennacherib, 2 Kin. 18:17; 19:8; 2 Chr. 32:1, 9, 21; Mic. 1:13. It was here that king Amaziah was slain, 2 Kin. 14:19. For a wonderful confirmation of the truth of Scripture, see Sennacherib. LADDER, Gen. 28:12-17. The comforting vision of the heavenly ladder shown to the fugitive Jacob, assured him of the omnipresent providence of God, and of his communication of all needed good to his people in the desert of this world, Heb. 1:14. It was also an assur ancc that there was a way open from earth to heaven, as well as from heaven to earth; and we may see m it an illustration of the nature of Christ, in which heaven and earth meet; and of his work, which brings man home to God. LA'ISH. See Dan. LAKE. See Merom and Sea. That most terrible description of hell, as a lake burning with fire and brimstone, Rev. 19: 20; 21: 8, recalls the fire and sea in which Sodom was consumed and swallowed up. LAMB, the young of the sheep, and also the kid of the goat, Ex. 12:5. Christ is the Lamb of God, John 1: 29, as being the accepted sacrifice for human sin. The sacrifices of the Old Testament were an ordaine...
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