An Historical Geography of the Old and New Testament:: In Two Volumes, Volume 2At the Clarendon Press, 1809 |
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... rooms are covered with handsome stone arches , very ancient , and perhaps , fays my author , the work of Solomon himself . You PART III . You find here four places , at Places mentioned in the firft Book of Samuel . 15.
... rooms are covered with handsome stone arches , very ancient , and perhaps , fays my author , the work of Solomon himself . You PART III . You find here four places , at Places mentioned in the firft Book of Samuel . 15.
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... stones are let into each other with a fillet , framed round about the cavity to pre- vent leakage ; and united to each other with fo firm a cement , that they will fometimes fooner break ( though a kind of coarse marble ) than be ...
... stones are let into each other with a fillet , framed round about the cavity to pre- vent leakage ; and united to each other with fo firm a cement , that they will fometimes fooner break ( though a kind of coarse marble ) than be ...
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... stones and rubbish , that it is a thing of fome difficulty to creep through it . But within you arrive in a large fair room , about five or fix yards fquare , cut out of the natural rock . Its fides and ceiling are fo exactly fquare ...
... stones and rubbish , that it is a thing of fome difficulty to creep through it . But within you arrive in a large fair room , about five or fix yards fquare , cut out of the natural rock . Its fides and ceiling are fo exactly fquare ...
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... stone placed in niches , in the fides of the cham- bers . They had been at first covered with handsome lids , and carved with garlands ; but now most of them were broken to pieces . The fides and ceiling of the rooms were always ...
... stone placed in niches , in the fides of the cham- bers . They had been at first covered with handsome lids , and carved with garlands ; but now most of them were broken to pieces . The fides and ceiling of the rooms were always ...
Page 62
... stones must have been brought by land - carriage to this place ; it being not known that any other quarries yield it , except those of Egypt , 2 Egypt , which lie about midway between Cairo and Siena 62 The Geography of the Old Teftament .
... stones must have been brought by land - carriage to this place ; it being not known that any other quarries yield it , except those of Egypt , 2 Egypt , which lie about midway between Cairo and Siena 62 The Geography of the Old Teftament .
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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.
Page 131 - THE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
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.