Palestine and Its TransformationHoughton Mifflin, 1911 - 443 pages |
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ancient appears Arabah Arabs Aujeh Babylonia Bashan Beduin Beersheba border Bosra camels caravan cave century changes of climate Christ Christian cliffs coast crops cultivation Damascus Dead Sea desert drought Druze east eastern eastward Edom Egypt En-Gedi epoch escarpment Esdraelon farther fertile forests Gaza geological Ghor Gilead green half Hauran Hebrews Hebron hills horses hundred feet inches inhabitants invaders Israelites Jaffa Jebel Jebel Druze Jerash Jerusalem Jews Jordan Judea Judean plateau lake land Lebanon limestone Mediterranean miles Moab modern mountains Negeb nomads northern Palestine Palmyra Petra Philistines Phoenicians plain population present prosperity raids rain rainfall regions rise road rock Roman route ruins Samaria scarcely Sea of Galilee season Shephelah side slopes southern spring steep stone strands Syria temples terraces thousand tion to-day town traversed trees tribes valley village Wadi walls Wilderness
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Page 265 - And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth-shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
Page 396 - And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty. And so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
Page 195 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 398 - And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew...
Page 135 - Give Me to drink. (For His disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto Him, How is it that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Page 395 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Page 397 - Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives ; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
Page 422 - Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God : for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
Page 265 - Thou art a great people and hast great power, thou shalt not have one lot only, but the mountain shall be thine, for it is a wood and thou shalt cut it down. And the outgoings of it shall be thine; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots and though they be strong.
Page 312 - Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah: 19 And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.