Manners & Customs
Enjoyed a status in Israel not assigned to them in the East
now. Mahometanism especially has degraded women in Asia and
Africa; anciently they had a liberty not now accorded them,
veiling was not then required as now: e.g. Rebekah, Genesis
24:64-65; Rachel, Genesis 29:11; Sarah, Genesis 12:14-19;
Miriam led a band of women with triumphant song...
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And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost
is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king
said, He [is] a good man, and cometh with good tidings....
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So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus
saith the king, [Is it] peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou
to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told,
saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again....
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And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he
spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a
company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet
them, and let him say, [Is it] peace?...
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Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise,
ye princes, [and] anoint the shield....
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Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto
them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the
land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their
watchman:...
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And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the
watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole
nights:...
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Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that
build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh
[but] in vain....
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I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine
altar, O LORD:...
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When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but [that]
rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed [his]
hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood
of this just person: see ye [to it]....
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