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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... matter and manner with which the reader is every where saluted . Though the author has had his full share of personal " ex- periences " during his long residence in the East , yet want of space has compelled him to omit such details ...
... matter and manner with which the reader is every where saluted . Though the author has had his full share of personal " ex- periences " during his long residence in the East , yet want of space has compelled him to omit such details ...
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... matters in their appropriate place and time ; and thus he does not speak of harvest in winter , nor of the vintage in spring , nor of rains and storms in summer , but of all in the seasons when they actually occur . There are also ...
... matters in their appropriate place and time ; and thus he does not speak of harvest in winter , nor of the vintage in spring , nor of rains and storms in summer , but of all in the seasons when they actually occur . There are also ...
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... unto the utmost sea , and the south , and the plain of the valley of Jericho , the city of palm - trees , unto Zoar.2 Nor need there have 1 Gen. xiii . 17 . 2 Deut . xxxiv . 1-3 . been any miracle in the matter . Though a hundred.
... unto the utmost sea , and the south , and the plain of the valley of Jericho , the city of palm - trees , unto Zoar.2 Nor need there have 1 Gen. xiii . 17 . 2 Deut . xxxiv . 1-3 . been any miracle in the matter . Though a hundred.
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... matter . Though a hundred and twenty years old , his eye was not dim , nor his natural force abated . And I can guide you to many a Pisgah on Leb- anon and Hermon from whence the view is far more ex- tensive . It was through such an ...
... matter . Though a hundred and twenty years old , his eye was not dim , nor his natural force abated . And I can guide you to many a Pisgah on Leb- anon and Hermon from whence the view is far more ex- tensive . It was through such an ...
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... matter , and get ready as fast as possible to flounder over all sorts of break - neck places in the course of our pilgrimage . " What man has done , man can do . " I have all my life KILARUB . THE KHARUB . 21 been accustomed to the ...
... matter , and get ready as fast as possible to flounder over all sorts of break - neck places in the course of our pilgrimage . " What man has done , man can do . " I have all my life KILARUB . THE KHARUB . 21 been accustomed to the ...
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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.