 | Bible - 1831 - 930 pages
...speak: PeradTenlure there shall thirty be found there And be said, I will not do it, if I find thirty rny rock and my fortress. 4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the han PeradTenture there snail twenty be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.... | |
 | Bible - 1831 - 298 pages
...U may happen that.— I. Destroy the city. if thirty were found there ? What was God not to do? 31. And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto tho Lord : (1) Peradvcnture thcrc shall be twenty found there. And (2) he eaid, I will not destroy... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...elect's sake those days, shall be shortened. Matt, xxiv. 22. [AM 2107. 27 sakes. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but Just and 28 ashes: Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou... | |
 | American Sunday-School Union - Bible - 1832 - 224 pages
...have done. See Luke xi. 5 — 13. The characteristics of Abraham's prayer were, 1. Great reverence : " Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes." 2. It was importunate : he pleads, first, if there were but fifty righteous,... | |
 | Sermons - 1834 - 740 pages
...speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. Oh ! let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Oh ! let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once." Again, it is of the first importance in the inquiries into the dispensations of Providence, that we... | |
 | 1833 - 588 pages
...faithful, when pleading that the guilty city of Sodom might be spared—" And Abraham answered and said, Behold now I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes." And again, " Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak." And finally,... | |
 | 1833 - 776 pages
...threatened doom. The concluding part of the dialogue affords a characteristic specimen of the whole : " And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will yet speak this once : peradventure ten (righteous persons) shall be found there. And he (the Lord)... | |
 | George Burder, Joseph Hughes - Bible - 1833 - 1134 pages
...righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakus. 27 And Abraham answered and young pigeons ; then lie that sinned shall bring for his olfe which am fbut dust and ashes. 28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty *ighteous : wilt thou... | |
 | Matthew Henry - Dissenters, Religious - 1833 - 774 pages
...one that knew his distance, expressing himself with wonder at the favour done him, (Gen. xviii. 27.) Behold, now I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. When the covenant of royalty was confirmed to David, and God regarded... | |
 | George Hill - Apologetics - 1833 - 604 pages
...of the nature of the man, whom a little before he had received in his tent, when he says to him, " Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes." It is the same Lord, whom Abraham saw in this manner, that appeared to... | |
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And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes... 
