Illustrations of Scripture, from the Geography, Natural History, and Manners and Customs of the East, 1. köideOliphant, 1842 |
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Page 77
... winds of the humid south wind . This opinion is also confirmed from the testimonies of ancient writers , who assert , on the authority of certain public records de- posited in a city of Mesopotamia , that Xisuthrus , who is no other ...
... winds of the humid south wind . This opinion is also confirmed from the testimonies of ancient writers , who assert , on the authority of certain public records de- posited in a city of Mesopotamia , that Xisuthrus , who is no other ...
Page 121
... wind through the rich and beautiful country of Mesopotamia ; and the people of the adjoining country are by Stephanus expressly called Masieni or Masiani . All these are reasonable indications that here was the original settlement of ...
... wind through the rich and beautiful country of Mesopotamia ; and the people of the adjoining country are by Stephanus expressly called Masieni or Masiani . All these are reasonable indications that here was the original settlement of ...
Page 173
... wind , having destroyed not less than 185,000 of the blasphemer's army in a single night , -a disaster which compelled him hurriedly to leave Palestine and return to Assyria , where , three years after , he was assassinated by his two ...
... wind , having destroyed not less than 185,000 of the blasphemer's army in a single night , -a disaster which compelled him hurriedly to leave Palestine and return to Assyria , where , three years after , he was assassinated by his two ...
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... winds that fre- quently sweep along its heated surface . Many parts , too , are intersected by extensive valleys , so full of sand and small stones as to be incapable of cultivation . To- wards the north and west , it presents the ...
... winds that fre- quently sweep along its heated surface . Many parts , too , are intersected by extensive valleys , so full of sand and small stones as to be incapable of cultivation . To- wards the north and west , it presents the ...
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... wind spread over the river , which made the extremities tingle as in sharp frosty weather . When the sun was out , it was in fact summer ; if a cloud covered him , the rigours of winter were felt ; up to this period we every day had ...
... wind spread over the river , which made the extremities tingle as in sharp frosty weather . When the sun was out , it was in fact summer ; if a cloud covered him , the rigours of winter were felt ; up to this period we every day had ...
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Page 88 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 80 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people...
Page 142 - 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.
Page 88 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 64 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Page 86 - 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 289 - I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His 'branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 362 - Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Page 90 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 312 - And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.