An Historical Geography of the Old and New Testament: In Two VolumesClarendon Press, 1819 - 378 pages |
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... Persian Gulf , affirmed ( as Strabo tells us ) that there were many islands in that gulf , in which there were extraordinary fine precious stones . The same Strabos says , that the riches of Arabia , which did consist in precious stones ...
... Persian Gulf , affirmed ( as Strabo tells us ) that there were many islands in that gulf , in which there were extraordinary fine precious stones . The same Strabos says , that the riches of Arabia , which did consist in precious stones ...
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... Persian mon channel ; we shall then have found , concurring in this place , all the marks whereby Moses describes the river Pison , and therefore need not question , but the river thus washing this land of Havilah , is the very river ...
... Persian mon channel ; we shall then have found , concurring in this place , all the marks whereby Moses describes the river Pison , and therefore need not question , but the river thus washing this land of Havilah , is the very river ...
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... Persian Gulf , that trenches were word Pison . not a sufficient defence against their irruptions into the neighbouring grounds , that are very soft and low . So that all that coast is full of lakes , marshy places , and sands , as ...
... Persian Gulf , that trenches were word Pison . not a sufficient defence against their irruptions into the neighbouring grounds , that are very soft and low . So that all that coast is full of lakes , marshy places , and sands , as ...
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... Persian Gulf towards Catif near Baharen . Now Catif is a town on the easterly coast of Arabia , that gave to the Persian Gulf the name of the Elcatif Sea , as it is now called by some . And Baharen is an island of the same Gulf , ( as ...
... Persian Gulf towards Catif near Baharen . Now Catif is a town on the easterly coast of Arabia , that gave to the Persian Gulf the name of the Elcatif Sea , as it is now called by some . And Baharen is an island of the same Gulf , ( as ...
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... Persian Gulf , at the east of the mouth of the Euphrates . The Nubian geographer and some other Arabians call it Churestan : but it is probably an oversight of the copiers , who did not distinguish the letter r from z of the Ara- bians ...
... Persian Gulf , at the east of the mouth of the Euphrates . The Nubian geographer and some other Arabians call it Churestan : but it is probably an oversight of the copiers , who did not distinguish the letter r from z of the Ara- bians ...
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Abraham adjoining Amorites ancient Arabia Arnon Bochart border Bruyn called Canaan CHAP Cush denoted descendants Deut Dodanim dwelt east Edom Egypt encamped Euphrates Eusebius Exod expressly families feet forecited Gomer Greeks half tribe Havilah Hebrew Hebrew word Hebron hence hundred inhabitants Israel Israelites Jacob Japhet Josh Joshua Kadesh king land of Canaan Lesser Asia Lord lying Mizraim Moab mount mount Seir mountains nations Nile Noah observed opinion Pison plain plainly plantations probably Ptolemy reason Red sea rendered river Jordan sacred history says Scripture seated SECT seems Seir Seventy Interpreters Shem shewn Shinar side Sihon situation Sodom sons speak supposed taken notice Tarshish tells Testament thereof Thevenot Tigris tion tract tribe of Gad tribe of Judah tribe of Manasseh understood unto whence wherein wilderness wilderness of Zin writers xxxiii Zoan
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Page 2 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 189 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Page 165 - Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours : from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
Page 165 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.
Page 123 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Page 36 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of; the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Page 149 - LORD hath laid upon it ; and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath...
Page 252 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left.
Page 184 - And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar : and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Page 375 - And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers ; and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.