The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy LandT. Nelson, 1869 - 718 pages |
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Page 42
... hour . All this is very natural . The Sabeans of Chaldea and Persia could find no more appropriate place for the performance of their idolatrons worship of the heavenly bodies than these open terraces , with the stars shining down upon ...
... hour . All this is very natural . The Sabeans of Chaldea and Persia could find no more appropriate place for the performance of their idolatrons worship of the heavenly bodies than these open terraces , with the stars shining down upon ...
Page 45
... hour and a half . It then descends by a very slippery track to the river , in the immediate vicinity of the caves . There are three of The caves . them , and all in the cliffs on the north side of the ravine . Out of the first rushes a ...
... hour and a half . It then descends by a very slippery track to the river , in the immediate vicinity of the caves . There are three of The caves . them , and all in the cliffs on the north side of the ravine . Out of the first rushes a ...
Page 48
... hours , you say , from Beirût to Sidon ? About twenty - seven miles , and takes six , eight , or ten hours , according to the rate of travel . But as our object is to study the land and its customs , or rather to peruse the Word of God ...
... hours , you say , from Beirût to Sidon ? About twenty - seven miles , and takes six , eight , or ten hours , according to the rate of travel . But as our object is to study the land and its customs , or rather to peruse the Word of God ...
Page 56
... hour , has a thousand owners , and in " shaking time " every one must look sharply after his own , or he loses all . There is an utter confounding of the meum and tuum in the general conscience of olive - gatherers . To what particular ...
... hour , has a thousand owners , and in " shaking time " every one must look sharply after his own , or he loses all . There is an utter confounding of the meum and tuum in the general conscience of olive - gatherers . To what particular ...
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... hour's easy , or rather uneasy , ride through the deep sand of the shore , will bring us to our tent on the green ... hours to the east , under the lofty ridge of Lebanon . Other streams from the mountain farther north unite with this at ...
... hour's easy , or rather uneasy , ride through the deep sand of the shore , will bring us to our tent on the green ... hours to the east , under the lofty ridge of Lebanon . Other streams from the mountain farther north unite with this at ...
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Acre allusions ancient Arabs Baalbek Banias beautiful Bedawîn Beirût Beisan Beit Bethsaida Bible built Cæsarea called Capernaum Carmel castle cave CHAPTER cisterns columns custom David desert doubt east Egypt entire Esdraelon fact flocks gate Gaza Gennesaret Hamath Hazor Hebrew Hebron Hermon hills Holy hour Hûleh hundred feet inhabitants Israel Jacob Jaffa Jaulan Jerusalem Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kenites king lake land Lebanon Lord Lydd mentioned miles Moses Moslems mountains Naphtali neighbourhood never night north-west olive Oriental Palestine pass Philistines plain probably prophet Ramleh region ride river road rock round ruins sacred says scene seen sepulchres sheikh shore side Sidon Sisera Solomon south-east stone suppose Syria Tell temple tent terebinth thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tombs travellers trees tribes Tyre unto valley vast village Wady wall whole wild wind Zion