Treasury of Scripture
upon mount Gerizim Mount Gerizim and mount Ebal being only separated by a narrow valley, not above a furlong broad, what was spoken with a loud voice on the one might be heard on the other, (See Ju
Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness...
) It is probably, however, that the particle al should be rendered {by}, as it frequently signifies; for when this direction was reduced to practice, (
Joshua 8:33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges...
) it seems that the people did not stand on the mountains, but over against them in the plain. But the Talmud says, that six tribes went up on each, while the priest and Levites and the ark remained beneath
Deuteronomy 11:26-29 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse...
Joshua 8:33,34 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges...
Judges 9:7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them...
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Genesis 29:33-35 And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said, Because the LORD has heard I was hated, he has therefore given me this son also...
Genesis 30:18,24 And Leah said, God has given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar...
Genesis 35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.