The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy Land, Band 2Harper & Brothers, 1859 |
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... nearly the Arabic for Chorazin ; the situation - two miles north of Tell Hûm - is just where we might expect to find it ; the ruins are quite adequate to answer the demands of history ; and there is no rival site . I am utterly at a ...
... nearly the Arabic for Chorazin ; the situation - two miles north of Tell Hûm - is just where we might expect to find it ; the ruins are quite adequate to answer the demands of history ; and there is no rival site . I am utterly at a ...
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... nearly certain that it was located on the shore , and not several miles from it , at the Tell to which the name is now affixed . Josephus also says that it was at the entrance of the Jordan into the lake . I call your attention , in ...
... nearly certain that it was located on the shore , and not several miles from it , at the Tell to which the name is now affixed . Josephus also says that it was at the entrance of the Jordan into the lake . I call your attention , in ...
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... nearly all the slaves of the emeer . They and their ancestors have belonged to his family for so many gen- erations that all trace of their real origin is lost . Their com- plexion also has softened into the bronze of the genuine Arab ...
... nearly all the slaves of the emeer . They and their ancestors have belonged to his family for so many gen- erations that all trace of their real origin is lost . Their com- plexion also has softened into the bronze of the genuine Arab ...
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... nearly west down a gentle declivity for half an hour , and then came to a large ruin called Kunaitera ; not that of the same name on the road to Damascus from Jisr Benat Yacobe , but one more ancient , and much larger than that ever was ...
... nearly west down a gentle declivity for half an hour , and then came to a large ruin called Kunaitera ; not that of the same name on the road to Damascus from Jisr Benat Yacobe , but one more ancient , and much larger than that ever was ...
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... nearly every Oriental household . Such favoritism is , and always has been , the prevailing custom of the East . He therefore did nothing but what the laws and domestic regulations of his day and generation sanctioned . The second ...
... nearly every Oriental household . Such favoritism is , and always has been , the prevailing custom of the East . He therefore did nothing but what the laws and domestic regulations of his day and generation sanctioned . The second ...
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Abraham ancient appear Arabs beautiful Bedawîn Beisan Beit Bethlehem Bethsaida Bible built Cæsarea called Capernaum Carmel castle cave church cisterns David Dead Sea deep descended desert doubt east Egypt emeer entire Esdraelon fact farther flocks Gate Gaza Gennesaret Hamath Harosheth Hebrew Hebron hills Holy hour hundred feet inhabitants Israel Jacob Jaffa Jaulan Jermuk Jerusalem Jesus Jews Jezreel Jordan Josephus Joshua Kenites king Kishon lake Lord Lydd mentioned miles Moslems mosque mountain Nablûs Nazareth never night northwest Palestine pass Philistines plain pools probably prophet Ramleh remarkable ride river road rock round ruins sacred Samaria Saul says scene seen sepulchre sheikh shore side Sisera southeast stone suppose tell Temple tent thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tombs towers trees unto vale valley valley of Jezreel vast village Wady wall whole wild wind Zion
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Seite 501 - And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them : and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped...
Seite 163 - Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
Seite 380 - ... bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.
Seite 406 - Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
Seite 21 - Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord. This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the Lord liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the Lord's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
Seite 146 - Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be; Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
Seite 103 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Seite 218 - And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Seite 92 - After whom is the king of Israel come out ? after whom dost thou pursue ? after a dead dog, after a flea.
Seite 247 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening