An Historical Geography of the Old and New Testament: In Two VolumesClarendon Press, 1819 - 378 pages |
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... this work , shewing such places as are mentioned in the other books of the New Testa- ment , and lay chiefly without the Holy Land . So that in one of these two maps is to be found any X place mentioned or referred to in the whole New ix.
... this work , shewing such places as are mentioned in the other books of the New Testa- ment , and lay chiefly without the Holy Land . So that in one of these two maps is to be found any X place mentioned or referred to in the whole New ix.
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In Two Volumes Edward Wells. X place mentioned or referred to in the whole New Testament . It is here to be further remarked , that I have not contented myself with giving a bare geographical account of places ; but have also taken ...
In Two Volumes Edward Wells. X place mentioned or referred to in the whole New Testament . It is here to be further remarked , that I have not contented myself with giving a bare geographical account of places ; but have also taken ...
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... whole performance , I have guided myself by the same measures , as in the first Part . The ancient state of several places , which lay with- out the Holy Land , is taken from Strabo , who lived in the first century ; and the present ...
... whole performance , I have guided myself by the same measures , as in the first Part . The ancient state of several places , which lay with- out the Holy Land , is taken from Strabo , who lived in the first century ; and the present ...
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... whole Land of Israel . P. 327 . CHAP . VI . Of the remarkable Places mentioned in the Book of Judges , and not before spoken of . P. 351 . A Chronological Account of the sacred History contained in the Books of Exodus , & c . to Ruth ...
... whole Land of Israel . P. 327 . CHAP . VI . Of the remarkable Places mentioned in the Book of Judges , and not before spoken of . P. 351 . A Chronological Account of the sacred History contained in the Books of Exodus , & c . to Ruth ...
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... whole land of Havilah , where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx - stone . And the name of the second river is Gihon : the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush . And the name ...
... whole land of Havilah , where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx - stone . And the name of the second river is Gihon : the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush . And the name ...
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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.