 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1812 - 428 pages
...conduct every thread of the woof with their fingers." SHAW'S Travels, p. 224. No. 1037. — xxxi. 24. She maketh fine linen, and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the merchants.] Herodotus informs us, that the Egyptian women used to carry on commerce. That trade is... | |
 | Alexander M'Leod - Presbyterian Church - 1813 - 166 pages
...but also to the froward; Cxj Psal. 137. 3. Lo, ehildren are an heritage of the Lord. Prov. 31. 23. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. ( yj Matthew 15. 4. For God eommanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother ; and, He that eurseth... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. Prov xxxi. 23. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. 128. y Matt, xv 4. For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother : and, He that curseth father... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...clothed •with scarlet. 22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. 23 Her .husband is known in- the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land 24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. 25 Strength and... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...twined linen." Shesh occurs also in Proverbs xxxi. 24, immediately after the reference topishteh — "She maketh fine linen, and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the merchant." And again, in the celebrated allegory in Ezekiel xvi. — " I girded thee about with fine linen, .... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...clothed with scarlet. 22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry ; her clothing is silk and purple. 23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. 24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it ; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. 25 Strength and... | |
 | John Wilson (D.D.) - Bible - 1816 - 308 pages
...with a magnifieenee so mueh the more eonspieuous for being prineipally her own bandy-work. 23. «. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land." Her attention to the appearanee of her husband is not less than to her dwn. When he eomes into the... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...sittelh among the elders of the land. She makelh fine linen and selleth it, and delivereth gird'es unto the merchant. Strength and honour are her clothing, and she shall rejoice in lime to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...the honour is not confined to herself. It extendeth to her friend and her companion in life; 23. " Her husband is known in the gates, when he " sitteth among the elders of the land ;" that is, he i* known as her husband : as a man blessed with such a wife; as indebted, perhaps, for... | |
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She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry ; her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. 
