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This is the town in which Sheba posted himself when he rebelled against David . Eighty years afterwards it was taken and sacked by Benhadad , king of Syria ; and 200 years subsequently by Tiglath - pileser , who sent away the ...
This is the town in which Sheba posted himself when he rebelled against David . Eighty years afterwards it was taken and sacked by Benhadad , king of Syria ; and 200 years subsequently by Tiglath - pileser , who sent away the ...
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1 ) , the small district or territory which took its name from the chief town , Abila . Its situation is in some degree letermined by that of the town ; but its precise limits and extent remain unknown . Northward t must have reached ...
1 ) , the small district or territory which took its name from the chief town , Abila . Its situation is in some degree letermined by that of the town ; but its precise limits and extent remain unknown . Northward t must have reached ...
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He was defeated , and returned into the town ; and his inefficiency and misconduct in the action had been so manifest , that the people were induced by Zebul to expel him and his followers . The people still ventured out to the labours ...
He was defeated , and returned into the town ; and his inefficiency and misconduct in the action had been so manifest , that the people were induced by Zebul to expel him and his followers . The people still ventured out to the labours ...
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Its western side is washed by the waves of the Mediterranean , and on the south lies the bay , beyond which may be seen the town of Caipha , on the site of the ancient Calamos , and , rising high above both , the shrubby heights of ...
Its western side is washed by the waves of the Mediterranean , and on the south lies the bay , beyond which may be seen the town of Caipha , on the site of the ancient Calamos , and , rising high above both , the shrubby heights of ...
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In 1832 the town was besieged for nearly six months by Ibrahim Pasha , during which 35,000 shells were thrown into it , and the buildings were literally beaten to pieces . It had by no means recovered from this calamity , when it was ...
In 1832 the town was besieged for nearly six months by Ibrahim Pasha , during which 35,000 shells were thrown into it , and the buildings were literally beaten to pieces . It had by no means recovered from this calamity , when it was ...
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Page 302 - And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed, and went behind them ; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them : And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel ; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these : so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 370 - And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Page 302 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page 96 - ... of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 228 - In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Page 444 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 26 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Page 278 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 324 - And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you...
Page 282 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening ; and he drank of the brook.
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| Title | The Popular Cyclopadia of Biblical Literature: Condensed from the Larger Work |
| Author | John Kitto |
| Publisher | Gould and Lincoln, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 23 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 800 pages |
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