The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of The Holy LandT. Nelson & Sons, 1877 - 718 pages |
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Page 31
... suppose . The women must be modestly veiled , because they are to sit in the gels . ” presence and full view of the ministers , comparatively strangers to them , and many of them evangelists from foreign nations . Doddridge thinks it ...
... suppose . The women must be modestly veiled , because they are to sit in the gels . ” presence and full view of the ministers , comparatively strangers to them , and many of them evangelists from foreign nations . Doddridge thinks it ...
Page 36
... suppose , that Titus celebrated his own victories over Jerusalem , and his father's birth - day , by gladiatorial shows , in which the miserable captives of Zion perished in great numbers , fighting with wild beasts and with one another ...
... suppose , that Titus celebrated his own victories over Jerusalem , and his father's birth - day , by gladiatorial shows , in which the miserable captives of Zion perished in great numbers , fighting with wild beasts and with one another ...
Page 58
... suppose that it was one of a system of watch - towers for the defence of the coast , such as are still kept up along the shores of Spain and Algiers . The hill itself , however , speaks of remote antiquity . But by far the most ...
... suppose that it was one of a system of watch - towers for the defence of the coast , such as are still kept up along the shores of Spain and Algiers . The hill itself , however , speaks of remote antiquity . But by far the most ...
Page 67
... suppose that these sand - covered ruins mark the exact site of that city . This whole neighbourhood is now called Jîyeh . children . graven on Jtyeh . What place is this to which we are coming ? Neby Yunas - the prophet Jonas - or ...
... suppose that these sand - covered ruins mark the exact site of that city . This whole neighbourhood is now called Jîyeh . children . graven on Jtyeh . What place is this to which we are coming ? Neby Yunas - the prophet Jonas - or ...
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... suppose , that Oriental nations , although they sank into various forms of idolatry , never lost the phraseology of the pure original theosophy . We are struck with this in all the Bible histories in which these people have occasion to ...
... suppose , that Oriental nations , although they sank into various forms of idolatry , never lost the phraseology of the pure original theosophy . We are struck with this in all the Bible histories in which these people have occasion to ...
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Abraham Acre allusions ancient appear Arabs Baalbek Banias beautiful Bedawîn Beirût Beit Beth-horon Bethsaida Bible built Cæsarea called Capernaum Carmel castle cave CHAPTER church cisterns columns custom David Dead Sea deep descended desert doubt east Egypt En-rogel entire Esdraelon fact flocks gate Gaza Gennesaret Gerar Hamath Hazor Hebrew Hebron hills Holy hour Hûleh inhabitants Israel Jacob Jaffa Jaulan Jerusalem Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kenites king lake land Lebanon Lord Lydd mentioned miles Moses Moslems mountains never night north-west Palestine pass Philistines plain pools prophet Ramleh remarkable ride river road rock round ruins sacred says scene seen sepulchres sheikh shore side Sidon Solomon south-east stone suppose Syria Tell Temple tent terebinth thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tombs towers travellers trees tribes Tyre unto valley vast village Wady wall whole wild wind Zion