 | Flavius Josephus - 1814 - 468 pages
...attempt, by the death of Mithridates, of which he was infortned about Jericho. Now here is the most fruitful country of Judea, which bears a vast number...palm-trees, besides the balsam-tree, whose sprouts they cut up with sharp stones, and at the incisions they gather the juice, which drops down like tears. So Pompey... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1821 - 640 pages
...of all the rest of Judea, were particularly noticed. " Now here," says the historian, " is the most fruitful country of Judea, which bears a vast number...they gather the juice which drops down like tears." ^f * Joshua, vi. 20—24. f Ibid. ver. 26. 1 1 Kings, xiii. 34. • $ 2 Kings, ii. 5. || Joseph. Ant.... | |
 | 1822 - 872 pages
...is naturally a moderate and perpetual gloominess in the air.' * " JOSEPHUS says, 'Tins is the most fruitful country of Judea, which bears a vast number of palm-trees, besides the balsam-tree, whosesprouts • J ._ . I '< ' , I!;-!. I. 36. they cut with sharp stones, and at the incisions they... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1824 - 398 pages
...— " cytlso et terebintho perstmttis." { Josephns says: "The sprouts being cut with sharp stones, at the incisions they gather the juice, which drops down like tears." — Jew. Wars, book i. chap. 7. Strabo describes it as resembling milk, but it became thicker from... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1825 - 610 pages
...attempt, by the death of Mithridates, of which he was informed about Jericho. Now here is the most fruitful country of Judea, which bears a vast number...palm-trees,* besides the balsam-tree, whose sprouts they cut up with aharp stones, and at the incisions they gather the juice, which drops down like tears. So Pompey... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1824 - 604 pages
...Josephus speaking of the Vale of Jericho, says, " Now here is the most fruitful country of Judtea, which bears a vast number of palm-trees, besides the...they gather the juice which drops down like tears."§ The balsam produced by these trees was of such consequence as to be noticed by almost all the writers... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1832 - 280 pages
...naturalist, describes as " peculiar to the vale of Jericho :" and " here," says Josephus, " is the most fruitful country of Judea, which bears a vast number...whose sprouts they cut with sharp stones, and at the incision they gather the juice, which drops down like tears." The growth of this tree resembled that... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 pages
...Judea, which bears a vast number of palm trees, besides the balsam tree, whose sprouts they cut witli sharp stones, and at the incisions they gather the juice, which drops down like tears." 'De Bell. Jud. lib. ic 7. sect. 6. The balsam produced by these trees was of such consel qucncc as... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 420 pages
...most fruitful country of Judsea, which bears a vast number of palm trees, besides the balsam tree, whose sprouts they cut with sharp stones, and at the...they gather the juice which drops down like tears.' The Balsam produced by these trees was of such consequence as to be noticed by all the writers who... | |
 | 1836 - 444 pages
...prisoner ; David smote 18,000 men of the Syria vast number of palm-trees, besides the balsam tree, whose sprouts they cut with sharp stones, and at the...they gather the juice which drops down like tears." The palm-trees were given by Marc Antony, in the extravagance of his love, to Cleopatra, the beautiful... | |
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Now here is the most fruitful country of Judea, which bears a vast number of * palm-trees, besides the balsam-tree, whose sprouts they cut with sharp stones, and at the incisions they gather the juice, which drops down like tears. So Pompey pitched his... 
