The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy LandT. Nelson, 1869 - 718 pages |
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Page 53
... Tyre , near Kânâh , called Im - il - ' Awamîd , where scores of such presses are still standing , almost as perfect as they were twenty centuries ago , although every vestige of the groves which supplied the oil has long since dis ...
... Tyre , near Kânâh , called Im - il - ' Awamîd , where scores of such presses are still standing , almost as perfect as they were twenty centuries ago , although every vestige of the groves which supplied the oil has long since dis ...
Page 89
... Tyre . Long ages have rolled away since con- tinental Tyre sunk beneath the " burden " of prophecy , and the very site where she stood was lost ; and there are men yet living who remember when the boar was roused from his lair among the ...
... Tyre . Long ages have rolled away since con- tinental Tyre sunk beneath the " burden " of prophecy , and the very site where she stood was lost ; and there are men yet living who remember when the boar was roused from his lair among the ...
Page 100
... Tyre -- a distance of not more than twenty miles and not one of them ever had a harbour . When spring opens , they launch their ships , rig up and re - pitch them , and prosecute their business until the next winter , when they again ...
... Tyre -- a distance of not more than twenty miles and not one of them ever had a harbour . When spring opens , they launch their ships , rig up and re - pitch them , and prosecute their business until the next winter , when they again ...
Page 110
... Tyre and Sidon , have recently been carried to Acre , Beirût , and Joppa , by boat , in immense quantities , and , after being cut afresh , and much reduced in size , are placed in buildings , which , in turn , will fall to ruin in a ...
... Tyre and Sidon , have recently been carried to Acre , Beirût , and Joppa , by boat , in immense quantities , and , after being cut afresh , and much reduced in size , are placed in buildings , which , in turn , will fall to ruin in a ...
Page 133
... Tyre and Sidon , " with " the body of heaven in storms . his clearness like a paved work of sapphire " overhead , and the Mediterranean , but now so agitated and angry , lying at cur feet gentle and calm as infancy asleep . No wonder ...
... Tyre and Sidon , " with " the body of heaven in storms . his clearness like a paved work of sapphire " overhead , and the Mediterranean , but now so agitated and angry , lying at cur feet gentle and calm as infancy asleep . No wonder ...
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Acre allusions ancient Arabs Baalbek Banias beautiful Bedawîn Beirût Beisan Beit Bethsaida Bible built Cæsarea called Capernaum Carmel castle cave CHAPTER cisterns columns custom David desert doubt east Egypt entire Esdraelon fact flocks gate Gaza Gennesaret Hamath Hazor Hebrew Hebron Hermon hills Holy hour Hûleh hundred feet inhabitants Israel Jacob Jaffa Jaulan Jerusalem Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kenites king lake land Lebanon Lord Lydd mentioned miles Moses Moslems mountains Naphtali neighbourhood never night north-west olive Oriental Palestine pass Philistines plain probably prophet Ramleh region ride river road rock round ruins sacred says scene seen sepulchres sheikh shore side Sidon Sisera Solomon south-east stone suppose Syria Tell temple tent terebinth thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tombs travellers trees tribes Tyre unto valley vast village Wady wall whole wild wind Zion