An Historical Geography of the Old and New Testament:: In Two Volumes, Volume 2At the Clarendon Press, 1809 |
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... still very entire , by what could be obferved in paffing by the gate , for he was told , that Chriftians were not permitted to enter into it . The Latin monks have a convent or monaftery at Thevenot , Part I. chap . xxxvi . Le Bruyn ...
... still very entire , by what could be obferved in paffing by the gate , for he was told , that Chriftians were not permitted to enter into it . The Latin monks have a convent or monaftery at Thevenot , Part I. chap . xxxvi . Le Bruyn ...
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... still more north than Afhdod , and is me- morable for being the birth - place of the giant Goliath , flain by David , as also of feveral others of the fame.gi- gantic race , flain by David's worthies . It was dismantled by David ...
... still more north than Afhdod , and is me- morable for being the birth - place of the giant Goliath , flain by David , as also of feveral others of the fame.gi- gantic race , flain by David's worthies . It was dismantled by David ...
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... still difcernible , but by time much defaced , At the end of the portico on the left hand you descend to the paffage into the fepulchres . The door is now so ob- structed with stones and rubbish , that it is a thing of fome difficulty ...
... still difcernible , but by time much defaced , At the end of the portico on the left hand you descend to the paffage into the fepulchres . The door is now so ob- structed with stones and rubbish , that it is a thing of fome difficulty ...
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... still more confirmed by what is faid of Rehob , Num . xiii . 21. that the fpies went up and fearched the land of Canaan , from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob ; whereby is denoted the length of Canaan , from the wilderness of Zin ...
... still more confirmed by what is faid of Rehob , Num . xiii . 21. that the fpies went up and fearched the land of Canaan , from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob ; whereby is denoted the length of Canaan , from the wilderness of Zin ...
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... still re- maining , I fomewhat question , whether any city in the world could have challenged precedence of this in its glory . But it being impoffible to reduce these noble ruins to any regular method , I must be forced to give you a ...
... still re- maining , I fomewhat question , whether any city in the world could have challenged precedence of this in its glory . But it being impoffible to reduce these noble ruins to any regular method , I must be forced to give you a ...
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Page 155 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 196 - And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel : and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
Page 142 - And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
Page 256 - And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.
Page 173 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Page 181 - Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven ; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
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Page 207 - Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden ; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day ; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Page 6 - And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
Page 23 - So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David.