The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy LandHarper, 1859 |
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... Moses only got a bird's - eye view of it - not a bad one , though , if the day was as intensely clear as ours is . One seems to look quite to the bottom of heaven's profoundest azure , " where the everlasting stars abide ; " and how ...
... Moses only got a bird's - eye view of it - not a bad one , though , if the day was as intensely clear as ours is . One seems to look quite to the bottom of heaven's profoundest azure , " where the everlasting stars abide ; " and how ...
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... Moses . Your remark about the Moslems suggests the thought that if Uriah's house had been thus protected , David might have been saved from a long series of dismal crimes , and Israel from dreadful calamity . True ; but then the roof of ...
... Moses . Your remark about the Moslems suggests the thought that if Uriah's house had been thus protected , David might have been saved from a long series of dismal crimes , and Israel from dreadful calamity . True ; but then the roof of ...
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... Moses , in that last ode which he taught the children of Israel , speaks of oil out of the flinty rock ; 2 and until now I had supposed that this tree delighted in hard , rocky soil ; but this vast grove spreads over a soft and sandy ...
... Moses , in that last ode which he taught the children of Israel , speaks of oil out of the flinty rock ; 2 and until now I had supposed that this tree delighted in hard , rocky soil ; but this vast grove spreads over a soft and sandy ...
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... Moses for the protection of the poor . If thou at all take thy neigh- bor's raiment to pledge , thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down ; for that is his covering only , it VIEW OF THE DAMUR . SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK ...
... Moses for the protection of the poor . If thou at all take thy neigh- bor's raiment to pledge , thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down ; for that is his covering only , it VIEW OF THE DAMUR . SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK ...
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... Moses , that the peo- ple in his day were divided into inimical parties and clans , just as they now are in these mountains . Moses would not have mentioned the ass of an enemy if enemies were not so common that the case specified was ...
... Moses , that the peo- ple in his day were divided into inimical parties and clans , just as they now are in these mountains . Moses would not have mentioned the ass of an enemy if enemies were not so common that the case specified was ...
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Page 436 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : At her feet he bowed, he fell : Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Page 423 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire ; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly...
Page 506 - And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men ; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha. he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Page 420 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord, against the mighty.
Page 377 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire and hail; snow and vapours: stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl...
Page 490 - My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Page 439 - Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 436 - She put her hand to the nail, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, When she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Page 445 - Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.
Page 524 - Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish...