 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord ? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and...  Sermons, - Page viiby Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...thought capable of such savage actions, as the prophet had mentioned; and, with much warmth, he replies; "But what? is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?" Elisha makes no return, but to point out a remarkable change, which was to take place in his condition... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 498 pages
...Jenow the evil that thou wilt do unto the ehildren of Israel Their strong holds wilt thou set onjire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword,...hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria. , . i — TN the days of Joram, king of Israel, flourished the prophet Elisha. His character was so... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 516 pages
...know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel. Their strong holds ifilt thou set onjire, and their young men "wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up tJieir women with child. And Hazael said, But, what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great... | |
 | Joshua Dixon (of Leeds.) - 1822 - 250 pages
...the dreadful crueities which he was on the point of perpetrating, he exclaimed with horror, '• Bnt what, is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thins ?" 2 Kingsviii,13. He nevertheless did all the evil which was thus foretold We are not our own... | |
 | A. Yosy - 1823 - 574 pages
...story of the unhappy, but, as far as we can judge, the once-ingenuous, Hazael is familiar to us all. ' What! Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?' would seem to have been spoken in the sincerity of his heart: and yet, scarcely had the unfortunate... | |
 | William Sewel - Society of Friends - 1823 - 704 pages
...foretold him how he would be given to persecution, he would have said as Hazael to the prophet Elisha, ' What, is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing?' But to return to Anne Coleman, when she was to be whipped at Dedham, and fastened to a cart, deputy... | |
 | Daniel Waterland - Apologetics - 1823 - 498 pages
...their blackest colours beforehand ; which of them might not have said, as Hazael to the prophet, " What, is thy servant a dog, " that he should do this great thing0 ?" But when once men give way to their unruly passions, they are no longer masters of their... | |
 | James Nichols - Arminianism - 1824 - 474 pages
...People, were so honest as to repent and join in a good cause." i discourse, is 2 Kings viii, 13, ' And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing ? :' — " This day reminds us of the huge and numherless calamities the people of this kingdom underwent... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 540 pages
...all the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel : their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash 'their children, and rip tip their women with child." Thus much did the man of God say and know of him, by a light darted into... | |
 | Robert Robinson - Baptists - 1824 - 450 pages
..." is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing !" To which the Prophet mildly replied. " The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria." As if he had said, 1 see you are a proud man ; your pride will make you an unjust man ; your injustice... | |
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