 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.  Biblical Repertory - Page 2811825Full view - About this book
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - Nature in the Bible - 1824 - 474 pages
...the JALEK devour ; What the JALEK leave, the CHASIL devour. Before them a fire consumeth, And behind a flame burneth : The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them a wilderness of desolation ; Yea, and nothing shall escape them. They consume like a general conflagration.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...nynftitt JTJSJ tyrni*>, *. TA lib. ic 5. Dunster. 78. who leave behind Nothing but ruin] Thus Joel ii. 3. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Dunster. 81. Then swell with pride, and must be tilled Gods, &c.] The second Antiochus king of Syria... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generalions. 3 1 Ihem. 4 The appearance of them is as the ippearance of horses ; and as horsemen, so shall they run.... | |
 | Insects - 1825 - 182 pages
...not been even the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame...as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them is a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. Like the noise of chariots on the tops... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1825 - 600 pages
...second chapter, the hostile people are described as locusts : As the morning spread upon the mountains. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen so shall they run, as a strong people set in battle array. They shall run like mighty men, they shall climb the wall like... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 488 pages
...inhabitants trembling — a fire devouring before the enemy, and behind them a flame burning — the land, as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness — all hands fainting, and every man's heart melting : pangs taking hold of them as a woman that travaileth... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 626 pages
...successful. '¿. More particularly of speedy conquest. — Joel ii. 4. The afpcara.net. of them it as the appearance of horses ; and as horsemen so shall they run. — Hab. i. î*. Their horses are swifter than leopards — Jer. iv. 13. His horses are swifter than... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years f of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame...desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and as horsemen so shall they run. 5 lake... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...burning, Trist. HI. El. x. 55, &c. DUNSTER. Ver. 78. who leave behind Nothing but ruin] Thus, Joel, ii. 3. "The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." And Gray, in his Bard, has a similar description finely expressed, where he speaks of the conquests... | |
 | Robert Culbertson - 1826 - 584 pages
...' They march every one in his ways, they do not break their ranks; neither does one thrust another. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness,' Joel ii. 3, 7, 8. And certainly no plague of locusts can be so destructive as one that issues from... | |
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