 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 sider
...Gen. xv. 15: and, of his holy grandchild, Israel, the Spirit of God says, When Jacob had made an aid of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the g/iost, and was gathered unto his people ; Gen. xlix. 33. Lo, dying is no other than going to our fathers,... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 sider
...Leah) 32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein, vans from the cluldren of Hcth. 33 eous : he hath cut asunder the cords ofthe wicked. 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back CHAP. L. 1 The mourningfor Jacob. 7 The funeral. 24 Jose/i/ifirofifiesieth to hi* brethren of their... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 410 sider
...Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for- a possession of a burying place. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons,...father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. ANNOTATIONS AND REFLECTIONS. The Divine Promise made by the LORD to Jacob, that he <would be tuith... | |
 | William Jones - 1810 - 516 sider
...to comfort him ; and, on the morning of the Epiphany, he expired, without a groan or a sigh. — " And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons,...his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost." APPENDIX. (No. I.) Written at a Seat, under some sequestered Oaks, in a natural Wilderness, near Gesiingthorpe.... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 614 sider
...can be imagined more pleasant than the death of the old patriarchs. The holy scripture tells us, that when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons,...up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, Gen. xlix. The same is related of king David.that when he had persuaded Solomon to "fear God, and to... | |
 | James Morison - 1810 - 292 sider
...impossible to conceive a more quiet returning to the dust, than these words convey to the mind ; ' He gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his fathers.' Here is a specimen of dying in the faith. Viewing the tranquillity of this scene, we may... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 580 sider
...can be imagined more pleasant than the death of the old patriarchs. The holy scripture tells us, that when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered np his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, Gen. xlix. The same is related of kingDavid,that... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1811 - 396 sider
...Leah.) The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth. S3 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons,...yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. I And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 568 sider
...conceive to be the most ancient form of burial, and the same alluded to in the Holy Scriptures. And Jacob gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.' Now, to say nothing of our author's utter ignorance of the meaning of the phrase, ' gathered unto .his... | |
 | 1826 - 638 sider
...bed, and thought on the good old patriarch Jacob, ' I die, but God will be with you.' And when Jacob made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost." We have already said, and we say it considerately, mat difficult as it is to estimate the direct or... | |
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And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. 
