The Holy Land and the Bible: A Book of Scripture Illustrations Gathered in Palestine, Volume 1Pott, 1888 - Bible |
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... tells us of a terrible loss of life in a gale off the port in the reign of Vespasian.1 Phoenician , Egyptian , Syrian , Roman , Crusading , and modern fleets have all alike paid their tribute to the angry waters . But I must mount my ...
... tells us of a terrible loss of life in a gale off the port in the reign of Vespasian.1 Phoenician , Egyptian , Syrian , Roman , Crusading , and modern fleets have all alike paid their tribute to the angry waters . But I must mount my ...
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... telling him she would lead him so safely that he would run no risk of discovery through these pests . 3 But dogs are not the only dangers of the streets . Any person found in them after nine o'clock without a light is 1 Isa . lvi . 10 ...
... telling him she would lead him so safely that he would run no risk of discovery through these pests . 3 But dogs are not the only dangers of the streets . Any person found in them after nine o'clock without a light is 1 Isa . lvi . 10 ...
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... tells us that he had ordered every householder in Korcha Dibon to make a cistern in his own dwelling ; and this custom , thus followed in all ages with private houses , has also been that of the whole open country . The ground ...
... tells us that he had ordered every householder in Korcha Dibon to make a cistern in his own dwelling ; and this custom , thus followed in all ages with private houses , has also been that of the whole open country . The ground ...
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... tells us , he could move freely , but when he ascended to the hills , the tracks were rocky and overgrown with prickly pear , trees , and bushes ; and disaster followed disaster . His " limbs were knocked up , his bones broken , his ...
... tells us , he could move freely , but when he ascended to the hills , the tracks were rocky and overgrown with prickly pear , trees , and bushes ; and disaster followed disaster . His " limbs were knocked up , his bones broken , his ...
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... were meant in this verse it is not easy to tell . The Rose of Sharon is thought by Sir George Grove , I know not why , 1 See ante , p . 32 . 2 Cant . ii . 1 . to have been the " tall and graceful squill , CHAPTER III THE PLAIN OF SHARON.
... were meant in this verse it is not easy to tell . The Rose of Sharon is thought by Sir George Grove , I know not why , 1 See ante , p . 32 . 2 Cant . ii . 1 . to have been the " tall and graceful squill , CHAPTER III THE PLAIN OF SHARON.
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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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