Ruins of Bible Lands: A Journey Over the Region of Fulfilled ProphecyW.R. M'Phun, 1857 - 271 Seiten |
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... towns at this day — occupied as parks , gardens , and pasture - grounds . The city is supposed to have contained about half a million of people . Fertile provinces lay extended on all sides of it , which supplied the inhabitants with ...
... towns at this day — occupied as parks , gardens , and pasture - grounds . The city is supposed to have contained about half a million of people . Fertile provinces lay extended on all sides of it , which supplied the inhabitants with ...
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... town of Mosul . Let us visit the spot . Now we are on the margin of the swift - flowing Tigris . As we gaze on the desolate waters , we think of the splendour which this stream has seen flourish and fade on its banks . Gone are now the ...
... town of Mosul . Let us visit the spot . Now we are on the margin of the swift - flowing Tigris . As we gaze on the desolate waters , we think of the splendour which this stream has seen flourish and fade on its banks . Gone are now the ...
Seite 58
... town of note mentioned in the Bible can be identified . Most accurate , then , is the Bible in its topography ; not less accurate is it in the account it gives of the my- thology of those days . Statues of the god Nebo , and of Dagon ...
... town of note mentioned in the Bible can be identified . Most accurate , then , is the Bible in its topography ; not less accurate is it in the account it gives of the my- thology of those days . Statues of the god Nebo , and of Dagon ...
Seite 62
... towns which depended on them , I took and plundered ; but I left him Jerusalem , his capital city , and some of the inferior towns around it . . . . And because Hezekiah still continued to refuse to pay me homage , I at- tacked and ...
... towns which depended on them , I took and plundered ; but I left him Jerusalem , his capital city , and some of the inferior towns around it . . . . And because Hezekiah still continued to refuse to pay me homage , I at- tacked and ...
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... town . As we go , and still the dark desolate plain spreads out before us , and still the monuments of ruin lie thick around us , the feeling of loneliness with which we are at first impressed , rises at last into awe and reverence , at ...
... town . As we go , and still the dark desolate plain spreads out before us , and still the monuments of ruin lie thick around us , the feeling of loneliness with which we are at first impressed , rises at last into awe and reverence , at ...
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Seite 84 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Seite 102 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Seite 89 - ... it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Seite 128 - The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah ; all they from Sheba shall come : they shall bring gold and incense ; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.
Seite 220 - Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Seite 16 - He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: ...The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Seite 130 - In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Seite 123 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Seite 84 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased ! the golden city ceased ! The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
Seite 252 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!