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Page 159 - Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground ; and it practised, and prospered.
Page 16 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 122 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...
Page 92 - Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Page 305 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Page 4 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no 'galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Page 55 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 252 - O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee...
Page 3 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
Page 145 - Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east : and, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters : and the earth shined with his glory.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Sacred Streams; Or: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the BIble |
| Author | Philip Henry Gosse |
| Editor | George Barrell Cheever |
| Publisher | Stringer & Townsend, 1852 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 mai 2007 |
| Length | 360 pages |
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