...Many an one also there is, who when smitten by family affliction, should have said, " Arise and let us go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress." But no ! The affliction has been forgotten ; the man has suffered the tide of his earthly affections...

...vigorously, and they will all vanish. Say firmly, as Jacob did to his household, and to all that were with him, ' Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change yoar garments, and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an nitar unto God.' Gen....

...prospect of his journey, was awfully remiss upon his return ; till, Divinely rebuked, he said — " Let us arise, and go up to Bethel ; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in my distress, and was with me in the way which I went." Hannah was more exemplary. She had vowed, that,...

...fleddest from the face ol Esau thy brother. 2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean ana change your garments: 3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el ; and I will make there an altar...

...an altar to his God, he gives the following extraordinary command to his household and all that are with him : " Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments ;"* or as it might be translated with perhaps more closeness, " the gods of the stranger" Had Jacob,...

...an altar to his God, he gives the following extraordinary command to his household and all that are with him: " Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments ;"* or as it might be translated with perhaps more closeness, " the gods of the stranger" Had Jacob,...

...fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments : 3 And let us arise and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me...

...strange 'oils timt are among you, and be clean and change •our garments : 3 A nd let us arise, and eo up to Beth-el ; and I will make there an altar unto God, who /'1'itfi e.ml burial of ffaae. GENESIS. i'<> IMP in the day of my distress, and was with me in lite...

...that found her by afon'l"' 274 CHAPTER XXXV. 275 Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, from the face of my mistress Sarai. Ge. xvi. 8. ami com. The days of mourning for my father are at...

...to say " unto his household," corrupted by the contact of Laban's idols which Rachel had stolen, " put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean ;" to Judges viii. 27, where we find it written of the ephod of gold which Gideon had caused to be...