 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice...  The Quarterly Review - Page 9edited by - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Jaffray, John Barclay - Friends in Scotland - 1834 - 642 pages
...creature should share in his glory. See a very clear instance of this in Ezra, iii. 12, 13, — " But many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice ; and many shouted aloud for joy," &c. But it is a sad case, when God's servants, through their passion,... | |
 | 1834 - 592 pages
...great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the House of the LORD was laid. But many of the Priests and Levites, and chief of the...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. — EZRA iii. 11, 12. SOME remarks may, perhaps, be profitably made on the following well known lines... | |
 | Friedrich Strauss - Jews - 1835 - 320 pages
...because the foundation of the house was laid. But many of the aged priests, and Levites, and chiefs, that had seen the first house, when the foundation...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice, and many shouted aloud for joy ; so that the people could not distinguish the shout of joy from the... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 444 pages
...the opposition of the enemy, another edifice was built about which we have this affecting testimony: "Many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice, and many shouted aloud for joy, so that the people could not discover the noise of the shout of joy... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...caused great grief and lamentation amongst many of the Israelites. " Many of the priests and Levitcs, and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that...seen the first house, when the foundation of this boose was laid before their eyes, wept with a load voice" (Ezra iii. 12). And to this inferiority we... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 436 pages
...built about which we have this affecting testimony : " Many of the priests and Levites, and cliief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of tliis house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice, and many shouted aloud for joy, so... | |
 | William Ainger - 1836 - 434 pages
...possessions were as nothing in the sight of those who had seen that " house in her first glory 2 ;" and " many of the priests and Levites, and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men," remembering those things, " wept with a loud voice '," when they saw its foundations laid ! What, though... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 852 pages
...shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. 12 But and th ; and many shouted aloud for joy : 13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1837 - 642 pages
...building of it, as appeared by the tears dropped from those eyes which had beheld the former, (" For many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers,...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice ;" Ezra iii. 13.) and by those words which God commanded Haggai to speak to the people for the introducing... | |
 | Baptists - 1837 - 624 pages
...Habylon. In the third chapter of the book of Ezra, we are told that " many of the priests and Lévites, and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that...was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice." This state of mind led to the address made to them by the Lord, as recorded in the second chapter of... | |
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