...neck from the halter. Those 123 who err from the truth, trusting in death to save them, have said, "When the overflowing scourge shall pass through it shall not come unto us." "Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold 1 lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a...

...Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, O scoffers, Who rule the people who are in Jerusalem, 15. Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, And with Hell we have made a pact. The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by, For we have made...

...though they believed in God, God rejected them because they had not 'watched'. In Isa. 28:15, God says, "...ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; ...for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves". In Isa. 28:18, God...

...Lord our God. But then there are other agreements and covenants beside these; for I read of some who said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement," Isaiah, xxviii. 15. To be in covenant with death, is to love sin and hate the Saviour; for so saith...

...Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men that teach my people in Jerusalem. Because you have said, we have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scouring shall pass through, it shall not come upon us. For we have...

...to be found in Isaiah xxviii. 15: 'percurrimus foedus cum morte et cum inferno fecimus pactum' — 'We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement,' says the Authorized Version, but it was the pactum of what became the Vulgate that created in men's...

...world of the dead' "in the depths of hell" (in Sheol). Isa. 28:15-18 says the fallen admit they had "made a covenant with death and with hell are we at agreement". Concerning this God replies, "your covenant with death shall be disannulled and your agreement with...

...specific took place—the same thing we saw in Daniel 9, namely an agreement made with that coming prince. "Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with...scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us...And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand;...

...made a covenant with death, and will hell [sheol .] [hell changed to sheol in New King James Version] are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us..." When the "overflowing scourge" passed through, many would die, but they thought they could escape death...

...meeting in 1814 featured a toast with similar language: "The present Misrulers of our Country— ye have made a covenant with death and with hell are we at agreement"; quoted in Adams, New England in the Republic, 280. I am indebted to Professor Lewis Perry for pointing...