The biblical atlas, containing 17 maps with explanatory notices1799 |
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... Greeks , and the Yavanas of the Hindus . The prophet Daniel calls Greece itself Javan , ( xi . 2 ; ) and the people are denominated Jaones by Homer . Javan had four sons , by whom the different portions of Greece Proper were peopled ...
... Greeks , and the Yavanas of the Hindus . The prophet Daniel calls Greece itself Javan , ( xi . 2 ; ) and the people are denominated Jaones by Homer . Javan had four sons , by whom the different portions of Greece Proper were peopled ...
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... Greeks from thence denominated Mesopotamia , Gen. xxiv . 10 ; and Padan - aram , or " the level country of Aram , " Gen. xxv . 20. In Scripture , this country is frequently rendered Syria : see Judg . x . 6 ; Hos . xii . 12 ; which must ...
... Greeks from thence denominated Mesopotamia , Gen. xxiv . 10 ; and Padan - aram , or " the level country of Aram , " Gen. xxv . 20. In Scripture , this country is frequently rendered Syria : see Judg . x . 6 ; Hos . xii . 12 ; which must ...
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... Greeks , Mesopotamia , having the same import . This was the country of Nahor , Gen. xxiv . 10 ; of Laban , Gen. xxxi . 20 ; and of Balaam the diviner , Numb . xxiii . 7 ; Deut . xxiii . 4. The lower part of this division was called ...
... Greeks , Mesopotamia , having the same import . This was the country of Nahor , Gen. xxiv . 10 ; of Laban , Gen. xxxi . 20 ; and of Balaam the diviner , Numb . xxiii . 7 ; Deut . xxiii . 4. The lower part of this division was called ...
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... Greek and Latin writers , reached from the wall of Media , or contracted the space between the two rivers about 300 ... Greeks called Phenicia . ARMENIA . - Armenia was a considerable country of Asia , having Colchis and Iberia on the ...
... Greek and Latin writers , reached from the wall of Media , or contracted the space between the two rivers about 300 ... Greeks called Phenicia . ARMENIA . - Armenia was a considerable country of Asia , having Colchis and Iberia on the ...
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... Greeks , and the Akkerkoof of the present time ; both of which names retain some elements of its ancient denomination . It is situated about nine miles west of the Tigris , at the place where that river makes its nearest approach to the ...
... Greeks , and the Akkerkoof of the present time ; both of which names retain some elements of its ancient denomination . It is situated about nine miles west of the Tigris , at the place where that river makes its nearest approach to the ...
Common terms and phrases
30 Statute Miles 56 Paternoster Row Ammon ancient Antioch apostle Arabia Aram Armenia Arnon Aroer Ashdod Asia Assyria Babylon called Canaan Chron COURT Damascus Dead Sea descendants Desert Deut E.Gover sculp East from Greenwich eastward Egypt Egyptians empire Euphrates Exod extended Ezek Ezion-gaber Galilee Gaza Gentiles Gihon Gilead Greeks Gulf Harosheth Hebrew Hebron Heshbon hills Holy Idumea inhabitants Israel Israelites Jericho Jerusalem Jezreel Joppa Jordan Josephus Josh Joshua journey Judah Judea kingdom KINGDOMS OF JUDAH Kings land Lebanon Levites Libanus Longitude East Manasseh Mesopotamia Middin Moab Moabites Moses Mount mountains Nile Noah northwards Numb Palestine PARTHIA patriarch Persian plain Pontus present day prophet province Ramoth Religious Tract Society river Samaria Scripture Shittim Sidon Solomon southern southwards station Syria Tappuah temple Thebes thence towns tribes Tyre valley viii westwards whence wilderness xviii xxiii xxiv xxvii
Popular passages
Page 34 - Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Page 36 - And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Page 10 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 21 - And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
Page 27 - Now the valley of the Cheese-mongers, as it was called, and was that which we told you before distinguished the hill of the upper city from that of the lower, extended as far as Siloam ; for that is the name of a fountain which hath sweet water in it, and this in great plenty also.
Page 34 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Page 28 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Page 19 - ... abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. 21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
Page 27 - Asmoneans reigned, they filled up that valley with earth ; and had a mind to join the city to the temple. They then took off part of the height of Acra, and reduced it to be of less elevation than it was before, that the temple might be superior to it.
Page 25 - They have abundance of trees, and are full of autumnal fruit, both that which grows wild, and that which is the effect of cultivation.