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Isaiah 57:5
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
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The Second Commandment
... Lord.' Psalm 122:4. But for the high places and images ... uses his right hand most;
he is more used to mercy ... can drown great sins, as the sea covers great rocks. ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 2 the second commandment.htm

The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth
... its shining, the earth quaked, the rocks rent, the ... And particularly heaven and earth
are used to denote the ... in woods and on mountains, in places underground; or ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah vol 1/sermon iii the shaking of.htm

The Sixth vision "On Earth"
... many and various expansions will follow in their respective places. ... no mere heaps
of earth or rocks, but "kings." The word "mountain" is often used as a ...
/.../bullinger/commentary on revelation/the sixth vision on earth.htm

The Sibylline Oracles.
... Existing poems were largely used, adopted, and published ... hide their images in the
holes of the rocks [341] for ... lay open the abyss, and fill the places with dead ...
//christianbookshelf.org/deane/pseudepigrapha/the sibylline oracles.htm

The Preface to the Commandments
... without an anchor, which strikes on rocks or sands ... no small mercy to be delivered
out of idolatrous places. ... The Carthaginians used, at first, to send the tenth ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the ten commandments/1 3 the preface to the.htm

The Flight into Egypt and St. John the Baptist in the Desert
... many kinds of berries, and among the rocks were strawberries ... Moses used it to comfort
and console the Israelites ... for the names of persons and places had been ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xvi the flight into egypt.htm

A Discourse
... That Lebanon is used figuratively by the inspired writers ... are such indeed, know their
places, and are ... Her confronting idolatrous nations is therefore a sign of ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a discourse.htm

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... much the same terms as I have used above, and ... false gods, but forsook the high places
and discontinued ... however, soon returned to their idolatrous practices, if ...
/.../chapter iiithe medes and the.htm

The Poetical Books (Including Also Ecclesiastes and Canticles).
... places: a fire not blown shall Ch.26:5, 6. For I ... and death, I will fear no evil:
for the rocks are thrown ... the form of a winepress, or a melody used in treading ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxi the poetical books.htm

The Immaculate Conception
... great open space with a hill of rocks in its ... days in prayer and contemplation at
different places, enjoying many ... stones which made the wall were used later for ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/ii the immaculate conception.htm

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