The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy Land, by William M. Thomson, Volume 3Harper, 1886 |
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... Mountain House . - Moving to the Mountains . - Modern Summer Residences . - Leba- non a Favorite Summer Retreat . - Dames de Nazareth . - The Sisters of Charity.- Silk Factory . - Cocoons . - Export of Silk . - The Pines . - The ...
... Mountain House . - Moving to the Mountains . - Modern Summer Residences . - Leba- non a Favorite Summer Retreat . - Dames de Nazareth . - The Sisters of Charity.- Silk Factory . - Cocoons . - Export of Silk . - The Pines . - The ...
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... Mountain Scenery .- ' Ain ' Anoûb . - Village Fountain . - Road to Shemlân . - Summer Eve on Lebanon . - Shemlân . - Lebanon a Range of Mountains . - Dean Stanley .- " The White Mountain . " - Rains and Snows on Lebanon . - Geological ...
... Mountain Scenery .- ' Ain ' Anoûb . - Village Fountain . - Road to Shemlân . - Summer Eve on Lebanon . - Shemlân . - Lebanon a Range of Mountains . - Dean Stanley .- " The White Mountain . " - Rains and Snows on Lebanon . - Geological ...
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... Mountain . - Jebel Mŭkhmal.— Pass over Lebanon Described by Dr. Buchanan . - Ehden . - Paradisus . - Yûsuf Karam . -Pass around the West End of Lebanon . - Tripolis.- El Mîna.- Small Islands North - west of Tripoli . - The Castle of ...
... Mountain . - Jebel Mŭkhmal.— Pass over Lebanon Described by Dr. Buchanan . - Ehden . - Paradisus . - Yûsuf Karam . -Pass around the West End of Lebanon . - Tripolis.- El Mîna.- Small Islands North - west of Tripoli . - The Castle of ...
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... Mountain of Nebo . " - Elevated Plateau of the Belka , and great Depression of the Shittim Plain . - Preserva- tion of ancient Biblical Names . - The unchanged Name of Nebo . - View from Jebel Neba . - El Muslubîyeh . - The grassy ...
... Mountain of Nebo . " - Elevated Plateau of the Belka , and great Depression of the Shittim Plain . - Preserva- tion of ancient Biblical Names . - The unchanged Name of Nebo . - View from Jebel Neba . - El Muslubîyeh . - The grassy ...
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... mountain - tops , and loud thunder echoed through the wadys of the upper Auwaly . As evening deepened into night the ... mountains . They were evidently fleeing from some appre- hended danger . Ragged boys and girls urged forward droves ...
... mountain - tops , and loud thunder echoed through the wadys of the upper Auwaly . As evening deepened into night the ... mountains . They were evidently fleeing from some appre- hended danger . Ragged boys and girls urged forward droves ...
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Ammân amongst ancient Anti-Lebanon appears Arabs arches Argob Ba'albek Barada Bashan beautiful Bedawîn Beirût Ben-hadad Beni Sakhr Beth-gamul Bible Biblical Bozrah bridge built Bŭkâ'a Busrah called camels castle cavern Cedars century Christian church cliffs columns court Damascus Deir Der'a descend desert distance Druses east edifice Emîr encamped entire es Salt farther feet high feet long gardens gorge Greek grove half Hamath Haurân Hebrew Hermon Heshbon hill hour houses hundred feet inhabitants inscriptions Jabbok Jebel Jerash Jordan Josephus Kenath khân king Kŭl'at land Lebanon Lejah lofty Maronites miles Moab Moses mosk Moslem mountain Muhammedan Nahr nearly north-east palace pass plain prophet region remains ride ridge river road rock rocky Roman roof ruins seen sheikhs side Sidon Sihon southward stones stream summit supposed Syria temple tents tomb tower town trees tribes Tripoli valley village Wady walls Zahleh Zerka
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Page 209 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 625 - And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed : I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Page 331 - For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Page 419 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Page 3 - As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up ; so man lieth down and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 622 - LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak? And now, behold, I go unto my people : come therefore, and I will advertise* thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
Page 622 - I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 677 - The Greek Testament : with a critically revised Text ; a Digest of Various Readings ; Marginal References to Verbal and Idiomatic Usage ; Prolegomena ;"and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers. By HENRY ALFORD, DD, Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels.
Page 94 - Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
Page 231 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.