 I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2541848Full view - About this book
 | John MacGregor - 1850 - 84 pages
...passed Solomon's pools, from which water is still carried by an aqueduct to Jerusalem—" I made me pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." 2 I dismounted at a pretty village, almost hidden among the dark olive groves, and walked into a large... | |
 | Mary Hall Adams - 1850 - 178 pages
...vineyards ; I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits ; I made me pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." Great and lovely as this city was, it was doomed to destruction. This destruction came upon it by Nebuchadnezzar... | |
 | 1849 - 788 pages
...; * I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits; « I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees ; ' I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house : also I had great possessions... | |
 | Mary Hall Adams - 1850 - 170 pages
...vineyards ; I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits ; I made me pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." Great and lovely as this city was, it was doomed to destruction. This destruction came upon it by Nebuchadnezzar... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1851 - 590 pages
...vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." Eccles. ii. 4—6. A less pleasing but more distinct reference to this pool occurs in the history of... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1851 - 308 pages
...vineyards; I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit. I made me pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees.' Near the upper pool is an extensive stone building, the site so pleasant amongst the hills, and looking... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1851 - 512 pages
...vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." Eccles. ii. 4—6. A less pleasing but more distinct reference to this pool occurs in the history of... | |
 | William Haig Miller - 1851 - 142 pages
...vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees : I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of... | |
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1851 - 842 pages
...Solomon, "made them gardens and orchards, planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit, and made them pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." When forced to serve on ship board by the enterprise of their own Monarchs or by their Persian conquerors,... | |
 | Thomas James - 1852 - 108 pages
...a. 229. There are in this volume many excellent general directions for the ordinary garden labours, some of which we shall notice, interweaving them with...own. Watering is the mainstay of horticulture in hot climates. When King Solomon, in the vanity of his mind, made him " gardens and orchards," he made him... | |
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