Sinai and Palestine in Connection with Their HistoryJohn Murray, 1871 - 560 pages |
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Page xix
... marked correspondence between the scenes of the Sinaitic mountains and the events of the Israelite wanderings is not much perhaps , but it is certainly something towards a proof of the truth of the whole narrative . To meet in the ...
... marked correspondence between the scenes of the Sinaitic mountains and the events of the Israelite wanderings is not much perhaps , but it is certainly something towards a proof of the truth of the whole narrative . To meet in the ...
Page xliii
... marked the successive years of the reign . It was so equally in these Theban tombs , where the longer or shorter reign can be traced by the extent of the chambers , or the completeness of their finish . In one or two instances , you ...
... marked the successive years of the reign . It was so equally in these Theban tombs , where the longer or shorter reign can be traced by the extent of the chambers , or the completeness of their finish . In one or two instances , you ...
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... marked with annular , crescent - shaped , and irregular blotches of a purplish red , extending as far as the eye could reach . They were curiously contrasted with the beautiful aqua - marina of the water lying over the white coral reefs ...
... marked with annular , crescent - shaped , and irregular blotches of a purplish red , extending as far as the eye could reach . They were curiously contrasted with the beautiful aqua - marina of the water lying over the white coral reefs ...
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... marked spots of verdure , however , are the accompaniments not of the empty beds of winter The torrents , but of the few living , perhaps perennial Springs . springs , which by the mere fact of their rarity , assume an importance ...
... marked spots of verdure , however , are the accompaniments not of the empty beds of winter The torrents , but of the few living , perhaps perennial Springs . springs , which by the mere fact of their rarity , assume an importance ...
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... marked by rude enclosures of stone - are doubtless such as those to which the Hebrew wanderers gave the name of " Hazeroth , " and which afterwards furnished the type of the primitive sanctuary at Shiloh ' . The rude burial - grounds ...
... marked by rude enclosures of stone - are doubtless such as those to which the Hebrew wanderers gave the name of " Hazeroth , " and which afterwards furnished the type of the primitive sanctuary at Shiloh ' . The rude burial - grounds ...
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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.