Narrative of a journey through Syria and Palestine in 1851 and 1852, transl, Volume 1 |
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Narrative of a Journey Through Syria and Palestine in 1851 and 1852, Transl Carel Willem M Van De Velde No preview available - 2015 |
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Akka ancient appears Arab baksheesh beautiful Beirût Belad-Besharah Blât built called Carmel castle Cesarea chayal Christians church Damascus gate desolate distance Dothan Dr Kalley dragoman east Emir Esdraelon eyes farther feel feet gate give God's Golgotha Gospel ground half hand Hâsbeiya Hazor height hills Holy Holy Land hour inhabitants Israel Jaffa Jenin Jerusalem Jesus Josephus journey Khaifa Kings Kishon land look Lord Megiddo missionary Mohammedans morning Moslems Mount mountains mukhari mules night Palestine Pasha passed piastres plain plain of Sharon quarter rain Ramleh remains river road rock rocky rubbish ruins Samaria Saracens Scripture seemed seen Sepulchre shech Shechem shew side Sidon slope Smyrna soul spot standing stones stood Syrians things Thomson thou thought Tibnîn tion town travellers Turkish Tyre valley vaulted village wadi wall word
Popular passages
Page 354 - Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh : yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
Page 299 - And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. " And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
Page 299 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them : for I am the LORD their God.
Page 29 - And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth ; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey : and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
Page 260 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 452 - And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Page 370 - Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken ; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate : but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah : for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
Page 277 - And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel ; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea.
Page 134 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings : So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 322 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.