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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... say in pride and stoutness . of heart , . . . the sycamores are cut down , but we will change them to ce- dars . And so ... says , He destroyed their vines with hail , and their sycamores with frost.3 Cer- tainly , a frost keen enough to ...
... say in pride and stoutness . of heart , . . . the sycamores are cut down , but we will change them to ce- dars . And so ... says , He destroyed their vines with hail , and their sycamores with frost.3 Cer- tainly , a frost keen enough to ...
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... says of himself ) to become all things to all men for their salvation . The mixture of Oriental Christians with heathen Greeks , Ro- mans , and other Occidental tribes , in their worshiping assem- blies , would doubtless render ...
... says of himself ) to become all things to all men for their salvation . The mixture of Oriental Christians with heathen Greeks , Ro- mans , and other Occidental tribes , in their worshiping assem- blies , would doubtless render ...
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... says the proverb , and it is under- standing also . I have read all my life about crooked , nar- row streets , with the gutters in the middle , and no side- walks , but I never understood till now . How are we to get past this line of ...
... says the proverb , and it is under- standing also . I have read all my life about crooked , nar- row streets , with the gutters in the middle , and no side- walks , but I never understood till now . How are we to get past this line of ...
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... say that the name is de- rived from beer , the word for well in nearly all the She- mitic dialects . Beirût would then be the city of wells , and such it pre - eminently is . Almost every house has one . They vary in depth from twenty ...
... say that the name is de- rived from beer , the word for well in nearly all the She- mitic dialects . Beirût would then be the city of wells , and such it pre - eminently is . Almost every house has one . They vary in depth from twenty ...
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... says , verse 1st , What aileth 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 ...
... says , verse 1st , What aileth 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 ...
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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.