...that to be a fine comparison in Amos ii. 9. " \Vhose height was as the height of the cedars, and ne was strong as the oaks." Let him, after a long ride...and contemplate the exact conical form of its top, ajid the beautiful symmetry of its branches, and he will no longer wonder that David compared the people...

...poetically describes the strength and power of the Amorite, by telling us that his " height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks." • A larger account of rLimnh a given in ' The Pictorial Bible/ under Num. xiii. 21. 1 Goo. XT. 19;...

...illustrated by the same figures : — ' Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks ; yea, I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 'J We may judge of the high estimation,...

...says, through the prophet Amos : " Yet destroyed I the Amorite > before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks." The very same miraculous victories of Jericho and Ai, that induced the Gibeonites to make their fraudulent...

...God says, through the prophet Amos : " Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks." The very same miraculous victories of Jericho and Ai, that induced the Gibeonites to make their fraudulent...

...thy mother an Hittite. Ezek. xvi. 3. Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks ; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. Amos, ii. 9. In an invasion of...

...Kings xxi. 20). In Amos ii. 9, their power is poetically described thus, — ' whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath;' lauguagewhich is \ery appropriate...

...Kings xxi. 26). In Amos ii. 9, their power is poetically described thus, — ' whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath ; ' language which is very appropriate...

...that to be a fine comparison in Amos xi. 9, ' Whose height was as the height of cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks.' Let him after a long ride in the heat of the sun, sit down in the shade of a cedar, and contemplate the exact conical form of its top, and the beautiful symmetry...

...threshing instruments of iron." 11. 9. " Yet destroyed I the Amorite 'before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks ; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath." 13. " Behold, I am pressed under...