Travels in Palestine: Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan, Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala in the Decapolis, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 |
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... horse and foot . These are armed and equipped in the common Turkish fashion , and are composed of Turks , Arabs , and Albanians . The walls of the city , added to the strength of its natural posi- tion , form a sufficient defence ...
... horse and foot . These are armed and equipped in the common Turkish fashion , and are composed of Turks , Arabs , and Albanians . The walls of the city , added to the strength of its natural posi- tion , form a sufficient defence ...
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... horses for that purpose . This we effected without much difficulty , and at a very moderate rate : a good travelling horse , with all its equipment in common furni- ture , costing about four hundred piastres , or less than twenty pounds ...
... horses for that purpose . This we effected without much difficulty , and at a very moderate rate : a good travelling horse , with all its equipment in common furni- ture , costing about four hundred piastres , or less than twenty pounds ...
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... horse of our own , there be- ing no animals for baggage , as each person car- ried beneath and behind him whatever belonged to himself . We were armed but poorly , from the advice of our ... horses , with 50 FROM JERUSALEM TO JERICHO .
... horse of our own , there be- ing no animals for baggage , as each person car- ried beneath and behind him whatever belonged to himself . We were armed but poorly , from the advice of our ... horses , with 50 FROM JERUSALEM TO JERICHO .
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... horses , with a lea- thern bottle of water suspended from the saddle , and these completed our outfit . After discharging all the numerous claims that were made on our purses , by the host of servants and others belonging to the convent ...
... horses , with a lea- thern bottle of water suspended from the saddle , and these completed our outfit . After discharging all the numerous claims that were made on our purses , by the host of servants and others belonging to the convent ...
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... wounds , pouring in oil and wine , and set him on his own beast , and brought him to an inn , and took care of him . " St. Luke , x . 30-34 . must be alarmed at the very tramp of the horse's 56 FROM JERUSALEM TO JERICHO .
... wounds , pouring in oil and wine , and set him on his own beast , and brought him to an inn , and took care of him . " St. Luke , x . 30-34 . must be alarmed at the very tramp of the horse's 56 FROM JERUSALEM TO JERICHO .
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Page 290 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Page 265 - Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
Page 38 - 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 56 - And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
Page 79 - And the devil said unto him. All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. 7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Page 398 - 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 23 - Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom-, but the valley of slaughter ; for they shall bury in tophet till there be no place.
Page 349 - And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell : for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Page 65 - In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho : he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
Page 23 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.