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Definition of Ambushments
1. ambushment [n] - See also: ambushment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambushments
Literary usage of Ambushments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great by Robert Cochrane (1887)
"... for his opponents then to skulk, to lay ambushments, to keep a narrow bridge
of licensing where the challenger should pass, though it be valour enough ..."
2. A Synopsis of Criticisms Upon Those Passages of the Old Testament in which by Richard Arthur Francis Barrett (1847)
"22 The Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, ... But the
meaning seems rather to be, that the ambushments which they had laid against ..."
3. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: The Text Carefully by Adam Clarke (1837)
"Ante Urbem Conditam 143. h to sing and to praise, ' the LORD set ambushments
against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, which were come against ..."
4. Original Narratives of Early American History by John Franklin Jameson, American Historical Association (1913)
"The Lord set ambushments against the Children of Amman, Moab, and Mount Seir,
and they were Smitten; is by the best Expositors thus understood; ..."
5. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1896)
"We may think that a soldier-author would have said more of the ambushments (ver.
22), and less perhaps of the prayer (ver. 6), the praise (ver. ..."
6. Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England by Cotton Mather (1853)
"22, "The Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount
Seir, and they were smitten," is by the best expositors thus understood : that ..."
7. An Introduction to the Old Testament: Critical, Historical, and Theological by Samuel Davidson (1862)
"The Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, ... The word
translated ambushments means powers or angels commissioned by God to bring about ..."
8. The Books of Chronicles: With Maps, Notes, and Introduction by William Emery Barnes (1899)
"And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the
children of ... 22. the LORD set ambushments] RV the LORD set liers in wait. ..."
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