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" Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. "
The Cornhill Magazine - Page 147
edited by - 1865
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Our Domestic Fowls

William Charles L. Martin - 1799 - 200 pages
...this notice, in conjunction with another in Genesis xlix. 17, " Dan shall be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, that biteth, the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward," proves that, in some districts at least, this animal had been subjugated: and we know that, on the...
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Sacred History, Selected from the Scriptures: With Annotations and ..., Volume 1

Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - Bible - 1810 - 410 pages
...judge his people, .as one of the tribes of Israel : ' !- ti < Dan shall be a serpent. by the way, art adder in the path! that biteth the horse's- heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.-' ;- 'j~'• ,, ii- e" , "', I have waited for thy salvation* O LORD. Gad, a troop shall overcome him...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 7

1827 - 590 pages
...enemy,—which disposition is pointed out in Jacob's declaration, " Dan shall be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord." Did this mention of the serpent's subtilty bring to Jacpb's...
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The Works ...: With Some Account of His Life ...

Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 512 pages
...sons just before his death, and relates to the tribe of Dan : ' Dan shall be a servant by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord !' The difficulty here, at least the main difficulty, is to...
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The Works of Bishop Sherlock: With Some Account of His Life ..., Volume 4

Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - Theology - 1830 - 506 pages
...sons just before his death, and relates to the tribe of Dan : ' Dan shall be a servant by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord !' The difficulty here, at least the main difficulty, is to...
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Dictionary of the Holy Bible

Augustin Calmet - Bible - 1832 - 1060 pages
...tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, (see SERPENT, Cerastes,) that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward ;" meaning that, though this tribe was not the most powerful or the most celebrated in Israel, it would,...
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Herbert's Poems: Attila, king of the Huns. 1838

William Herbert - Old Norse poetry - 1838 - 606 pages
...upon the prophecy of Jacob in the 49th chapter of Genesis, " Dan shall be a " serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth " the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I " have waited for thy salvation, O Lord," which last words seem to imply that the posterity of Dan...
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Attila, King of the Huns

William Herbert - 1838 - 602 pages
...upon the prophecy of Jacob in the 49th chapter of Genesis, " Dan shall be a " serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth " the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I " have waited for thy salvation, O Lord," which last words seem to imply that the posterity of Dan...
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Our Israelitish Origin: Lectures on Ancient Israel, and the Israelitish ...

John Wilson - Anglo-Israelism - 1840 - 378 pages
...to have fulfilled the prophecy of Jacob respecting Dan : — " Dan shall be a serpent by the way, An adder in the path, That biteth the horse's heels, So that his rider shall fall backward." The white horse, then the ensign of those who were afterwards to become the Lord's messengers to the...
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A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds: Containing Many Modern ...

James Hamilton Fennell - Animal behavior - 1841 - 610 pages
...patriarch Jacob, when dying in Egypt, addressing his sons, said, " Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward;" and it is remarkable that this early allusion to the horse refers to him as being ridden, and not as...
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