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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... thee.1 It is given to me also , and I mean to make it mine from Dan to Beer- sheba before I leave it . Doubtless ; and so every young enthusiast in trade means to make his fortune . But do you expect to gain such an inheritance as this ...
... thee.1 It is given to me also , and I mean to make it mine from Dan to Beer- sheba before I leave it . Doubtless ; and so every young enthusiast in trade means to make his fortune . But do you expect to gain such an inheritance as this ...
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... thee , O Absalom ! my son , my son . It is not difficult to comprehend why public proclama- tions were made in the gates , and why prophets so often pronounced their messages there . We read of the gates of righteousness , because ...
... thee , O Absalom ! my son , my son . It is not difficult to comprehend why public proclama- tions were made in the gates , and why prophets so often pronounced their messages there . We read of the gates of righteousness , because ...
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... thee now , that thou art wholly gone up to the house - tops ? For what purpose did the inhabitants of Jeru- salem thus go thither ? This is a remarkable passage . Verse 2d goes on to say , Thou art full of stirs , a tumultuous city , a ...
... thee now , that thou art wholly gone up to the house - tops ? For what purpose did the inhabitants of Jeru- salem thus go thither ? This is a remarkable passage . Verse 2d goes on to say , Thou art full of stirs , a tumultuous city , a ...
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... right on , and let thine eyelids look straight before thee . Turn not to 1 Prov . iii . 6 . NARROW PATHS - BALAAM . 63 the right hand or. NATURAL BRIDGE OVER NAHR EL LEBN . 11 Kings vi . 29 . 1 Levit . xxiii. 62 THE LAND AND THE BOOK .
... right on , and let thine eyelids look straight before thee . Turn not to 1 Prov . iii . 6 . NARROW PATHS - BALAAM . 63 the right hand or. NATURAL BRIDGE OVER NAHR EL LEBN . 11 Kings vi . 29 . 1 Levit . xxiii. 62 THE LAND AND THE BOOK .
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... thee . And then , in the 24th verse , For if thou wert cut out of the olive - tree , which is wild by nature , and wert grafted , contrary to nature , into a good olive - tree , etc. , etc. Now here is my difficulty , and the exact ...
... thee . And then , in the 24th verse , For if thou wert cut out of the olive - tree , which is wild by nature , and wert grafted , contrary to nature , into a good olive - tree , etc. , etc. Now here is my difficulty , and the exact ...
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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...