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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Page xvi
... gather together whatever will contribute to our comfort , safety , and success . This will reach you by messenger express . The answer , I hope , will be yourself . " This summons was neither unexpected nor reluctantly obeyed ; and a ...
... gather together whatever will contribute to our comfort , safety , and success . This will reach you by messenger express . The answer , I hope , will be yourself . " This summons was neither unexpected nor reluctantly obeyed ; and a ...
Page xvi
... gather together whatever will contribute to our comfort , safety , and success . This will reach you by messenger express . The answer , I hope , will be yourself . ” This summons was neither unexpected nor reluctantly obeyed ; and a ...
... gather together whatever will contribute to our comfort , safety , and success . This will reach you by messenger express . The answer , I hope , will be yourself . ” This summons was neither unexpected nor reluctantly obeyed ; and a ...
Page 24
... gather sycamore fruit or use it . The natives say that the sycamore bears seven crops a year . I think it is irregular in this matter . Some bear oft- ener than others , and the same tree yields more crops one year than another . It is ...
... gather sycamore fruit or use it . The natives say that the sycamore bears seven crops a year . I think it is irregular in this matter . Some bear oft- ener than others , and the same tree yields more crops one year than another . It is ...
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... gather there to hear the news , and to engage in trade and traffic . I have seen in certain places - Joppa , for example 1 Gen. xix . 1 , and Heb . xiii . 2 . 3 Gen. xxxiv . 20 , 24 . Gen. xlix . 5 , 7 . 2 Gen. xxiii . 18 . 5 Job xxix ...
... gather there to hear the news , and to engage in trade and traffic . I have seen in certain places - Joppa , for example 1 Gen. xix . 1 , and Heb . xiii . 2 . 3 Gen. xxxiv . 20 , 24 . Gen. xlix . 5 , 7 . 2 Gen. xxiii . 18 . 5 Job xxix ...
Page 61
... gather them , but also to explore the mysteries of those dark and watery labyrinths . There is much said in the Bible about caves ; and ecclesiastical tradition has located many of the events recorded in the New Testament in these ...
... gather them , but also to explore the mysteries of those dark and watery labyrinths . There is much said in the Bible about caves ; and ecclesiastical tradition has located many of the events recorded in the New Testament in these ...
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Acre ancient antiquity Arabs Baalbek Banias beautiful Beirût Bible birds called Capernaum castle charms Christian cliffs coast columns custom doubt Druses east entire eyes fact farther flocks friends gate Gennesaret Hamath Hasbany Hazor head Hebrew Hermon hills hour Hûleh hundred feet inhabitants Jabin Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kings Kudes Kurn ladies lake land Lebanon look Lord mentioned Metawelies miles Moses Moslems mountains Naphtali never night olive once Oriental Palestine pass Phoenicians plain plow poor probably prophet ravine region Rehob ride river road rock round ruins Safed sarcophagi says seen Sheikh shepherd shore side Sidon Solomon stone suppose Syria tarbush Tell temple tent terebinth thee thing thorns thou thousand Tiberias tion tombs trees tribes Tyre unto vast village wady wall whole wild wind Zaanaim
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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...