Sinai and Palestine in Connection with Their HistoryJohn Murray, 1871 - 560 pages |
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Page xxxix
... King is conquering , ruling , worshipping , worshipped . The Palace is the Temple . The King is Priest . He and his horses are ten times the size of the rest of the army . Alike in battle and in worship , he is of the same stature as ...
... King is conquering , ruling , worshipping , worshipped . The Palace is the Temple . The King is Priest . He and his horses are ten times the size of the rest of the army . Alike in battle and in worship , he is of the same stature as ...
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... Kings , the Westminster Abbey of Thebes ; the latter , of the Tombs of the Priests and Princes , its Canterbury Cathedral . Ascend , therefore , the first of these two gorges . It is the very ideal of desolation . Bare rocks , without a ...
... Kings , the Westminster Abbey of Thebes ; the latter , of the Tombs of the Priests and Princes , its Canterbury Cathedral . Ascend , therefore , the first of these two gorges . It is the very ideal of desolation . Bare rocks , without a ...
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... Kings in glory ; each one in his own house . " ( Isa . xiv . 18. ) Every Egyptian potentate , but especially every Egyptian king , seems to have begun his reign by preparing his sepulchre . It was so in the case of the Pyramids , where ...
... Kings in glory ; each one in his own house . " ( Isa . xiv . 18. ) Every Egyptian potentate , but especially every Egyptian king , seems to have begun his reign by preparing his sepulchre . It was so in the case of the Pyramids , where ...
Page xliv
... King , immediately closed , and meant to be closed for ever ; so that what we now see was intended never to be seen by any mortal eyes except those of the King himself when he awoke from his slumbers . Not only was the entrance closed ...
... King , immediately closed , and meant to be closed for ever ; so that what we now see was intended never to be seen by any mortal eyes except those of the King himself when he awoke from his slumbers . Not only was the entrance closed ...
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... Kings has ever been represented in engravings . The mythology of Egypt , even now , strange to say , can be studied only in the caverns of the Valley of the Kings . 9. NILE AT SILSILIS . At Silsilis , the seat of the ancient sandstone ...
... Kings has ever been represented in engravings . The mythology of Egypt , even now , strange to say , can be studied only in the caverns of the Valley of the Kings . 9. NILE AT SILSILIS . At Silsilis , the seat of the ancient sandstone ...
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Akaba amongst Amorite ancient Arabah Arabs Bedouin Beth-horon Bethel called cave Chapter Christian Church cliffs Dead Sea deep descended described Desert Deut east eastern Egypt Egyptian encampment Ephraim Esdraelon Feirân Galilee Gibeah Gibeon Greek Gulf Hebrew Hebron heights Hermon hills Holy Israel Israelites Jebel Mûsa Jericho Jerusalem Jewish Jordan Josephus Josh Joshua Judæa Judah Kings lake land Lebanon Lord Michmash Moab Moses mosque Mount Mount Hor mountains Mussulman natural Nile northern Olivet Palestine pass passage peculiar Petra Philistines Phoenicia pilgrims plain of Esdraelon probably Prophet range ravine river rock rocky round ruins sacred Samaria sanctuary scene scenery Sea of Galilee seen Sepulchre Serbâl Shechem Sheykh shores side Sinai southern spot spring stone stream summit Syria table-land Temple terebinth Tiberias tion tomb tradition travellers trees tribes valley village Wâdy walls western whole wild wilderness word
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Page xxi - And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Page 187 - Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near...
Page 160 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 394 - Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Page 217 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Page 346 - And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
Page 217 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 299 - So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor ; but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Page 113 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, And the ships of Tarshish first, To bring thy sons from far, Their silver and their gold with them, Unto the name of the Lord thy God, And to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Page 340 - And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. 3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead.