The Land and the Book: Or Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy Land, Volume 1Harper, 1858 |
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... Jews ; and , to this extent , there is a relation between them . But the enlightened Christian , who has learned that neither in this mountain , nor yet at Jerusalem , shall men worship the Father , who is a spirit , and must be ...
... Jews ; and , to this extent , there is a relation between them . But the enlightened Christian , who has learned that neither in this mountain , nor yet at Jerusalem , shall men worship the Father , who is a spirit , and must be ...
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... Jew dandies at this moment , with their cherished locks flowing round their ears and necks in pretty curls . Talking of Jews and Jewesses , and veils and hair , re- minds me of that difficult passage in Paul's letter to the Corinthians ...
... Jew dandies at this moment , with their cherished locks flowing round their ears and necks in pretty curls . Talking of Jews and Jewesses , and veils and hair , re- minds me of that difficult passage in Paul's letter to the Corinthians ...
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... Jews at work in the exact way to bring on the catastrophe . But let that pass ; Beirût has no need of such doubtful claims to immortality . Judging from the scanty and indefinite notices by the pil- grims of the mediaval ages , the ...
... Jews at work in the exact way to bring on the catastrophe . But let that pass ; Beirût has no need of such doubtful claims to immortality . Judging from the scanty and indefinite notices by the pil- grims of the mediaval ages , the ...
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... Jews used palm - branches as emblems of victory in their seasons of rejoicing , ' and Christians do the same on Palm Sunday , in commemoration of our Saviour's triumphal entry into Jerusalem . They are often woven into an arch , and ...
... Jews used palm - branches as emblems of victory in their seasons of rejoicing , ' and Christians do the same on Palm Sunday , in commemoration of our Saviour's triumphal entry into Jerusalem . They are often woven into an arch , and ...
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... Jews to imitate . No doubt these cuttings and prints had an idolatrous or superstitious signification which Moses desired to condemn . In the last song which he taught the children of Israel , he upbraids the foolish people and un- wise ...
... Jews to imitate . No doubt these cuttings and prints had an idolatrous or superstitious signification which Moses desired to condemn . In the last song which he taught the children of Israel , he upbraids the foolish people and un- wise ...
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Acre Ain et Tîny ancient antiquity Arabs Asher Baal-gad Baalbek Banias beautiful Beirût Bible Bichri birds bitumen called Capernaum castle cliffs columns custom Deir doubt Druses east entire fact farther flocks Galilee Gennesaret Hamath Hasbany Hazor Hebrew Hermon hills hour Hûleh Hûm hundred feet Hunîn inhabitants Jabin Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kefr Kenite Kings Kudes Kurn lake land Lebanon Lord marsh mentioned Metawelies miles Moses Moslems mountains Naphtali never night olive once Oriental Palestine pass Phoenician plain plow poor prophet ravine region Rehob ride river road rock round ruins Safed says seen Sheikh shepherd shore side Sidon Solomon stone stream suppose Syria Tell temple tent terebinth thee thing thorns thou thousand Tiberias TIBNIN tion tombs trees tribe Tyre valley vast village wady wall whole wild wind wonder Zaanaim
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Page 438 - 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 17 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Page 134 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 32 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Page 492 - My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Page 17 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee.
Page 221 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent ; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear ; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Page 337 - Arise, that we may go up against them : for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good : and are ye still ! be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
Page 146 - I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
Page 438 - So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord : but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.