The Land and the Book: Southern Palestine and JerusalemHarper & brothers, 1880 |
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Abimelech Abraham Ain es Sultân amongst ancient Antipatris appears aqueduct Arabs Askelon Bedawîn Beer-sheba Beit Jibrîn Bethany Bible Biblical Cæsarea called camels castle cave church cisterns cliffs David Dead Sea deep descend desert doubt east Egypt En-gedi En-rogel Eshcol farther feet flocks fountain gardens gate Gath Gaza Gerar Gilgal Hajla Hebrew Hebron hills Holy City hundred inhabitants Isaac Israel Jacob Jaffa Jebel Jehoshaphat Jericho Jerusalem Jordan Josephus Josh Joshua Judah Kidron king Kusr Lachish land Lieutenant Conder Lord mentioned miles Moab Moses mosk Moslem north-west Palestine pass patriarchs Philistines pilgrims plain pool present probably prophet Ramleh region ride ridge river road Robinson rock ruins Saba sacred Saul says scenes seen sepulchre Shephelah side Sodom stone suppose Tekoa Tell thou tion tombs tower travellers trees unto valley village vineyards Wady wall wilderness Ziklag Zion
Popular passages
Page 473 - Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
Page 493 - The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Page 493 - For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Page 296 - And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 296 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Page 410 - And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
Page 314 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 364 - And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
Page 359 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 431 - Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto Him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also. And He said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.