...far in that direction. The expressions, 'from the entering in of Hamath to the river of Egypt,' and , and his lamp shall be put out with him' (Job xviii. 5, 6). ' Beho appear to have been intended to express merely the extremo limits of the country. The opinion we have...

...the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it :" And again, " Unto thy seed Lave I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates." In a vision in the same chapter God reveals to Abraham that his seed would be a stranger in a land...

...His father's conquests had carried his dominions to the borders named in the promise to Abraham, " from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates." The subjection of Edom gave him the ports of Eziongeber and Elath, on the eastern arm of the Red Sea...

...; and while the animals were consumed, the Lord repeated solemnly : ' To thy seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates — the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and...

...; and while the animals were consumed, the Lord repeated solemnly : ' To thy seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates—the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Pcrizzites,...

...Biblieal Dietionary. This verse in the Samaritan Pentateueh stands thus : The boundary of Canaan was from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates. Kaliseh sets this dnwn to a eorruption originating in the mistaken idea that the boundaries of the...

...Jerusalem, from the Thapsacus,or Tiphsah,the ford on the Euphrates, even to the borders of Egypt — " from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates," as Abraham had been promised ; or, as it stands in David's psalm of promise (the 7^nd) — He shall...

...inheritance for those who shall be born hereafter, as well as for those who are born already. 18b'G. " From the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates." — That by these words is signified the extension of things spiritual and celestial, — to the river...

...His father's conquests had carried his dominions to the borders named in the promise to Abraham, " from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates." The subjection of Edom gave him the ports of Eziongeber and Elath, on the eastern arm of the Red Sea...

...mutually intertwined (see Introd.). In Gen. xv. 18, God promised to " Abram" (ie to his family) the "land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates," and in Ps. Ixxx. 11, we find that Israel, spoken of as a vine transplanted from Egypt, had " sent out...