Sinai and Palestine in Connection with Their HistoryJohn Murray, 1871 - 560 pages |
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Page xxxiii
... vast , volume of water , mild and beneficent as his statue in the Vatican , steadily flowing on between its two almost uniform banks , which rise above it much like the banks of a canal , though in some places with terraces or strips of ...
... vast , volume of water , mild and beneficent as his statue in the Vatican , steadily flowing on between its two almost uniform banks , which rise above it much like the banks of a canal , though in some places with terraces or strips of ...
Page xxxviii
... vast hands resting on his elephantine knees . You sit on his breast and look at the Osiride statues which support the portico of the temple , and which anywhere else would put to shame even the statues of the cherubs in St. Peter's ...
... vast hands resting on his elephantine knees . You sit on his breast and look at the Osiride statues which support the portico of the temple , and which anywhere else would put to shame even the statues of the cherubs in St. Peter's ...
Page xxxix
... vast rents and fissures in their aged frames . As I looked back at them in the sunset , and they rose up in front of the background of the mountain , they seemed , indeed , as if 1 Gen. xli . 44 ; xlii . 15 , 16. Ezek . xxxi . 2 ...
... vast rents and fissures in their aged frames . As I looked back at them in the sunset , and they rose up in front of the background of the mountain , they seemed , indeed , as if 1 Gen. xli . 44 ; xlii . 15 , 16. Ezek . xxxi . 2 ...
Page xli
... vast collection of palaces or temples which , from the little Arab village hard by , is called Karnac . Imagine a long vista of courts , and gateways , and halls - and gateways , and courts , and colonnades , and halls ; here and there ...
... vast collection of palaces or temples which , from the little Arab village hard by , is called Karnac . Imagine a long vista of courts , and gateways , and halls - and gateways , and courts , and colonnades , and halls ; here and there ...
Page xliii
... vast Museum . Not the collections of Pompeii at Naples give more knowledge of Greek or Roman life than these do of Egyptian . The kitchen , the dinners , the boating , the dancing , the trades , all are there all fresh from the hands of ...
... vast Museum . Not the collections of Pompeii at Naples give more knowledge of Greek or Roman life than these do of Egyptian . The kitchen , the dinners , the boating , the dancing , the trades , all are there all fresh from the hands of ...
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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 Galilee Gibeah Gibeon Greek green 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.