The Holy Land and the Bible: A Book of Scripture Illustrations Gathered in Palestine, Volume 1Pott, 1888 - Bible |
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... huge skin bottle on his back -a defunct calf , in fact , filled with water instead of veal , and minus head , legs , and tail - forces us to turn to one side , to pass him . A bare - armed and bare - legged apparition in a ragged skull ...
... huge skin bottle on his back -a defunct calf , in fact , filled with water instead of veal , and minus head , legs , and tail - forces us to turn to one side , to pass him . A bare - armed and bare - legged apparition in a ragged skull ...
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... huge ungainly cactus , bristling with sharp spines , constantly brought one back from the West to the East , and the landscape from my window did so no less . From the sea , Joppa appears to be hemmed in with barren sand - hills , but ...
... huge ungainly cactus , bristling with sharp spines , constantly brought one back from the West to the East , and the landscape from my window did so no less . From the sea , Joppa appears to be hemmed in with barren sand - hills , but ...
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... huge wheels , varying in diameter from fifteen to ninety feet , are set up between strong walls at the edge of the river , so that in revolving , by the force of the current , the rim , armed with a series of wooden buckets , dips into ...
... huge wheels , varying in diameter from fifteen to ninety feet , are set up between strong walls at the edge of the river , so that in revolving , by the force of the current , the rim , armed with a series of wooden buckets , dips into ...
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... huge rough stones , or boxes of oranges ; or to make way for a string of silent , tall , splay - footed camels , similarly freighted , each tied to the one before it ; the driver riding ahead on an ass , which they im- plicitly followed ...
... huge rough stones , or boxes of oranges ; or to make way for a string of silent , tall , splay - footed camels , similarly freighted , each tied to the one before it ; the driver riding ahead on an ass , which they im- plicitly followed ...
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... huge empty barrels , or a load of wheat , or of furniture ; the road they have to travel , broken , rough , slippery , and often steep , making the burden additionally hard to support . I once saw half - a - dozen or perhaps eight men ...
... huge empty barrels , or a load of wheat , or of furniture ; the road they have to travel , broken , rough , slippery , and often steep , making the burden additionally hard to support . I once saw half - a - dozen or perhaps eight men ...
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Adullam ancient Antipatris Arabs arch Ascalon Ashdod Bedouin Beersheba Beit Jibrin Bible broad built Cæsarea camels cave Chron church cisterns covered Crusaders David deep Derketo desolation Deut east Egypt Ekron Ezek feet high flocks gardens gate Gaza Gerar goats grain hand Hebrews Hebron herds hills Holy houses huge Isaiah Israel Jerusalem Jewish Jews Joppa Josh Judæa Judah Keilah Kings land Lord Lydda Matt miles Moab mosque mountains night olive once Palestine passed peasants perhaps Philistines pillars plain plain of Sharon plough pool Prov rain rising road rock Roman roof rough round ruins sand seen serpent sheep Shephelah shepherd side slopes spot spring stands stone street stretches Temple tents tombs tower town trees tribe turban valley valley of Elah village Wady walls whole wild women words xxiv xxvi
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Page 556 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For VOL. m. F he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 426 - Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
Page 156 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 325 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 468 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Page 383 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Page 379 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 430 - But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been of old, from everlasting.
Page 160 - Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Page 223 - He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
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