Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures: Derived Principally from the Manners, Customs, Rites, Traditions, Forms of Speech Antiquities Climate, and Works of Art and Literature, of the Eastern Nations; Embodying All that is Valuable in the Works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the Most Celebrated Oriental Travellers, Embracing Also the Subject of the Fulfilment of Prophecy, as Exhibited by Keith and Others, with Descriptions of the Present State of Countries and Places Mentioned in the Sacred Writings, Illustrated by Numerous Landscape Engravings, from Sketches Taken on the SpotGeorge Bush J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1865 - 656 pages |
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... respect to quadrupeds , or birds . It appears probable , that we ought to consider the strong ex- pression used in the record , " of every living thing of all flesh , " in the same sense as we find it in various other parts of Scripture ...
... respect to quadrupeds , or birds . It appears probable , that we ought to consider the strong ex- pression used in the record , " of every living thing of all flesh , " in the same sense as we find it in various other parts of Scripture ...
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... respect of natural fertility , re- sembled the plain of Shinar , and the land of Egypt along the Nile . But it is ... respecting the supposed island . In the travels Egmont and Heyman , however , there is a statement whic may throw some ...
... respect of natural fertility , re- sembled the plain of Shinar , and the land of Egypt along the Nile . But it is ... respecting the supposed island . In the travels Egmont and Heyman , however , there is a statement whic may throw some ...
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... respect , nature seems to have done for them , what art has done for others . With what grace do all classes bow on receiving a favour , or in paying their respects to a superior ! Sometimes they bow down to the ground ; at other times ...
... respect , nature seems to have done for them , what art has done for others . With what grace do all classes bow on receiving a favour , or in paying their respects to a superior ! Sometimes they bow down to the ground ; at other times ...
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... respect to men . NIEBUHR says , " that an Arabian lady who met them in a broad valley in the desert of Mount Sinai , retired from the road , and let her servant lead the camel till they had passed . ” — BURDER . Ver . 65. For she had ...
... respect to men . NIEBUHR says , " that an Arabian lady who met them in a broad valley in the desert of Mount Sinai , retired from the road , and let her servant lead the camel till they had passed . ” — BURDER . Ver . 65. For she had ...
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... respect to the meat Isaac desired , that perhaps his desiring Esau to take his bow and arrows , and to kill him some venison , -- an ante- lope , or some such wild animal , when a kid from his own flock would , as appears from the event ...
... respect to the meat Isaac desired , that perhaps his desiring Esau to take his bow and arrows , and to kill him some venison , -- an ante- lope , or some such wild animal , when a kid from his own flock would , as appears from the event ...
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Page 164 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield : but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 264 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 10 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 164 - This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand, and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee ; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth : that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear : for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
Page 29 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 27 - And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 295 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 65 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Page 47 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 124 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.