 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.  Biblical natural science - Page 309by John Duns - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Charles Elliott - 1837 - 228 pages
...extensive tract of country, bringing to your mind the patriarch's view of the plains of Jordan : " And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain...of Jordan, that it was well watered every where," Gen. xiii, 10 ; but with the exception of its being " well watered ;" for you might travel till your... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...right, in either, to occupy whatever ground he pleased, that was not pre-occupied by other tribes. " And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan, and journeyed east ; and... | |
 | 1837 - 844 pages
...SCHOOL THE CRIMINALITY OF LOT'S CHOICE: A DISCOURSE. Bv TUE REV. JOHN PUIIVES, Minister of Jedburgh. " And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where,1' &c.— GEN. xiii. 10-13. Авнлм, and Lot, his brother's son, had now both journeyed and... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1838 - 234 pages
...from what the Bible tells us, that this was his great object in going. On the contrary, we read that " Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of...the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar." " Then ;" (that is in consequence of this beauty and fertility of the country,) — " Lot chose him all the... | |
 | Léon marquis de Laborde - 1838 - 438 pages
...harmonises perfectly with the account we have in Genesis, of the interruption of the course of the river. " And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain...like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar."* ; •• >rs| " And the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits."" " Then the Lord rained upon Sodom... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. 10 s Unto LOUD, like the land of Lgypt, as thou comest unto 11 Zoar. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan;... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 pages
...is not repugnant to any of the preceding observations. Moses tells us that " all the plain of Jordan was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed...like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar," Gen. xiii. 10. This was the Vale of Siddim, highly adapted for the pasturage of cattle, and for that... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1838 - 306 pages
...hand, then I will go to the right, and if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1838 - 910 pages
...right, in either, to occupy whatever ground he pleased, that was not pre-occupied by other tribes. " And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan, and journeyed east ; and... | |
 | Richard Hurrell Froude - 1838 - 460 pages
...ease and wealth around them ; they seemed especially favoured among the inhabitants of the earth. " Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was watered everywhere" before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah "even as the garden of the Lord."... | |
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