The Popular Cyclopadia of Biblical Literature: Condensed from the Larger WorkGould and Lincoln, 1854 - 800 pages |
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... east of Palestine had been invaded by a king called Chedorlaomer , from beyond the Euphrates , who brought several of the small disunited states of those quarters under tribute . Among them were the five cities of the Plain of Sodom ...
... east of Palestine had been invaded by a king called Chedorlaomer , from beyond the Euphrates , who brought several of the small disunited states of those quarters under tribute . Among them were the five cities of the Plain of Sodom ...
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... East the arable lands were not divided by hedges into The boundaries of lands were therefore marked by stones as landmarks , which , even in pa- triarchal times , it was deemed a heinous wrong to remove ( Job . xxiv . 2 ) ; and the law ...
... East the arable lands were not divided by hedges into The boundaries of lands were therefore marked by stones as landmarks , which , even in pa- triarchal times , it was deemed a heinous wrong to remove ( Job . xxiv . 2 ) ; and the law ...
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... east . ALABASTER . This word occurs in the New Testament only in the notice of the ala- baster bor , ' or rather vessel , of ointinent of spikenard , very precious , ' which a woman broke , and with its valuable contents anointed the ...
... east . ALABASTER . This word occurs in the New Testament only in the notice of the ala- baster bor , ' or rather vessel , of ointinent of spikenard , very precious , ' which a woman broke , and with its valuable contents anointed the ...
Page 51
... East , a second Rome . The city was founded in B.C. 332 , and was built under the superintendence of the same architect ( Dinocrates ) who had rebuilt the Temple of Diana at Ephesus . The ancient city appears to have been of seven times ...
... East , a second Rome . The city was founded in B.C. 332 , and was built under the superintendence of the same architect ( Dinocrates ) who had rebuilt the Temple of Diana at Ephesus . The ancient city appears to have been of seven times ...
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... East . By these means , the whole trade was fixed at Alexandria , which thus became the chief mart of all the traffic between the East and West , and which continued to be the greatest emporium in the world for above seventeen cen ...
... East . By these means , the whole trade was fixed at Alexandria , which thus became the chief mart of all the traffic between the East and West , and which continued to be the greatest emporium in the world for above seventeen cen ...
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Abimelech Abraham Acts Ahaz altar Ammonites Amorites ancient animals Apostle appears Arabia Arabs Asia Assyria Babylon called Canaan Christ Christian Chron church comp Damascus David death denote Deut divine East Edom Egypt Egyptian epistle Euphrates Exod Ezek Ezra father favour Greek Hebrew Hebron high-priest holy inhabitants Israel Israelites Jehovah Jeroboam Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews Joab Jordan Josephus Josh Judæa Judah Judg king land latter Lord Luke Matt means ment mentioned Meroë Moses mountains nations natural occurs Palestine passages Paul period Persian persons Philistines possession present priests probably prophet reign rendered Roman sacred Scripture seems Solomon species stone supposed Syria temple Testament thou tion town tree tribe tribe of Judah viii word worship writers xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxvii
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Page 304 - 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 372 - 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 304 - 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 446 - 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 280 - 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 326 - 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 284 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening ; and he drank of the brook.