Five Years in Damascus: With Travels and Researches in Palmyra, Lebanon, the Giant Cities of Bashan, and the HaurânJohn Murray, 1870 - 339 pages |
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Amer ancient Antilebanon antiquity appeared Arab arch Argob ascended Bâ'albek bank Barada basalt Bashan Bathanyeh beauty Bedawîn Beth-Gamul border Bostra Bozrah buildings Busrah camels caravan castle centre Christian cliffs columns conical crossed Damascus declivity deep descended desert distance door dromedary Druzes eastern eastward Edrei entered feet flocks fragments front gate glen Greek inscription half an hour Hamath heaps Helbon Hermon hewn stones hills Hît horses houses inhabitants interior Jebel Haurân Kenath Kerioth Kunawât Lebanon Lejah Lysanias Mahmûd miles minutes Moab Mohammed mosque mound mountains mounted Mûsa Muslems Palmyra passed path peak plain ravine reached Riblah ridge river road rock rocky rode Roman Roman road round ruins Salcah Saracenic scenery sheikh side slope soil soon spot stream street summit Suweideh Syria tell temple tent terraced tombs towers town tribe turned valley village Wady walls wild winding yards Zedad
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Page 222 - And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the Lord hath spoken. Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
Page 95 - And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree : and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: for they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
Page 316 - From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad: 9 And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
Page 306 - And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
Page 31 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Page 103 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 225 - For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Page 318 - And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea...
Page 297 - And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him : for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know 516 not the voice of strangers.
Page 316 - Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath, (for these are his sides east and west,) a portion for Dan.