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Page 49
... unburnt bricks , like the villages we had passed on the great plain . " The ancient city of Gaza , renowned as the strong , lay obviously VOL . IV . E · • chiefly on the hill . The present town. THE BIBLICAL TREASURY . 49.
... unburnt bricks , like the villages we had passed on the great plain . " The ancient city of Gaza , renowned as the strong , lay obviously VOL . IV . E · • chiefly on the hill . The present town. THE BIBLICAL TREASURY . 49.
Page 50
... village ; yet the places of the former ones remain , and are pointed out around the hill . One of these , at the foot of the slope on the south - east , is shown as the gate whose doors and bars were carried off by Samson ; and just by ...
... village ; yet the places of the former ones remain , and are pointed out around the hill . One of these , at the foot of the slope on the south - east , is shown as the gate whose doors and bars were carried off by Samson ; and just by ...
Page 54
... village , near the Himalaya mountains . Months after , a missionary , worn and weary , came to this village . The hand of Providence guided him to the hut of this poor Hindoo , who treated him like a brother . He gave him food , and ...
... village , near the Himalaya mountains . Months after , a missionary , worn and weary , came to this village . The hand of Providence guided him to the hut of this poor Hindoo , who treated him like a brother . He gave him food , and ...
Page 72
... villages , where a great extent of ground is allotted for that purpose . Each family has a particular portion of it , walled in like a garden , where the bones of their ancestors have remained undisturbed for many generations . For in ...
... villages , where a great extent of ground is allotted for that purpose . Each family has a particular portion of it , walled in like a garden , where the bones of their ancestors have remained undisturbed for many generations . For in ...
Page 77
... village , and took away a quantity of salt to season it ; but the king , suspecting how they had acted , ordered them immediately to go and pay for it . Then , turning to his attendants , he said , " This is a small matter in itself ...
... village , and took away a quantity of salt to season it ; but the king , suspecting how they had acted , ordered them immediately to go and pay for it . Then , turning to his attendants , he said , " This is a small matter in itself ...
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Page 23 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink ; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment ? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Page 6 - And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had : and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
Page 28 - And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
Page 71 - The voice of the Lord is powerful ; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
Page 147 - And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Page 130 - Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river.
Page 78 - He burneth part thereof in the fire, with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself and saith, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire." And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith, "Deliver me; for thou art my God.
Page 57 - Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto the choice vine ; He washed his garments in wine, And his clothes in the blood of grapes : His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk.
Page 140 - But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
Page 84 - Him that overcometh, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out : and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God : and I will write upon him my new name.