An Historical Geography of the Old and New Testament: In Two VolumesClarendon Press, 1819 - 378 pages |
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... Red Sea . P. 248 . SECT . II . Of the Israelites passing through the Red Sea , and of other particulars relating to the same Sea . SECT . III . P. 252 . Of the Journeyings of the Israelites from the Red Sea , till they came to Mount ...
... Red Sea . P. 248 . SECT . II . Of the Israelites passing through the Red Sea , and of other particulars relating to the same Sea . SECT . III . P. 252 . Of the Journeyings of the Israelites from the Red Sea , till they came to Mount ...
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... Red Sea , called Adena or Aden ; which rived from 7 . The marks whereby ( to use Bishop Huet's expression ) for having been the most delightful place of a very delightful country , I mean , of Arabia Felix , has been called itself ...
... Red Sea , called Adena or Aden ; which rived from 7 . The marks whereby ( to use Bishop Huet's expression ) for having been the most delightful place of a very delightful country , I mean , of Arabia Felix , has been called itself ...
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... Red Sea , and they went out into the wilderness of Shur . So that Shur was that part of Arabia , which came up to the bottom of the Red Sea or Arabian Gulf , and so joined on to Egypt . And as it thus clearly appears , that Shur was the ...
... Red Sea , and they went out into the wilderness of Shur . So that Shur was that part of Arabia , which came up to the bottom of the Red Sea or Arabian Gulf , and so joined on to Egypt . And as it thus clearly appears , that Shur was the ...
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... Red Sea are of the greatest value by which words we may see , that he made the Persian Sea a part of that of the Indies ; of which more hereafter , when we come to speak of the Red Sea . The Rabbi Benjamin , a Navarrer , who lived five ...
... Red Sea are of the greatest value by which words we may see , that he made the Persian Sea a part of that of the Indies ; of which more hereafter , when we come to speak of the Red Sea . The Rabbi Benjamin , a Navarrer , who lived five ...
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... Sea of Tarshish , or Mediterranean Sea . For the Scripture tells us , that these ships were broken at Ezion - gaber , which was a place con- fessedly on the Red Sea : and besides the Scripture tells us , that these ships were designed ...
... Sea of Tarshish , or Mediterranean Sea . For the Scripture tells us , that these ships were broken at Ezion - gaber , which was a place con- fessedly on the Red Sea : and besides the Scripture tells us , that these ships were designed ...
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Abraham adjoining Amorites ancient Arabia Arnon Bochart border Bruyn called Canaan CHAP Cush denoted descendants Deut Dodanim dwelt east Edom Egypt encamped Euphrates Eusebius Exod expressly families feet forecited Gomer Greeks half tribe Havilah Hebrew Hebrew word Hebron hence hundred inhabitants Israel Israelites Jacob Japhet Josh Joshua Kadesh king land of Canaan Lesser Asia Lord lying Mizraim Moab mount mount Seir mountains nations Nile Noah observed opinion Pison plain plainly plantations probably Ptolemy reason Red sea rendered river Jordan sacred history says Scripture seated SECT seems Seir Seventy Interpreters Shem shewn Shinar side Sihon situation Sodom sons speak supposed taken notice Tarshish tells Testament thereof Thevenot Tigris tion tract tribe of Gad tribe of Judah tribe of Manasseh understood unto whence wherein wilderness wilderness of Zin writers xxxiii Zoan
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Page 2 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 189 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Page 165 - Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours : from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
Page 165 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.
Page 123 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Page 36 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of; the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Page 149 - LORD hath laid upon it ; and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath...
Page 252 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left.
Page 184 - And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar : and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Page 375 - And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers ; and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.