The Popular Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature: Condensed from the Larger WorkGould and Lincoln, 1856 - 800 pages |
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... reason of this seems to have been that the cow , which was a sacred animal in Egypt , was eaten by the Jews and most other nations , and therefore the Egyptians considered themselves ceremonially defiled if they ate with any strangers ...
... reason of this seems to have been that the cow , which was a sacred animal in Egypt , was eaten by the Jews and most other nations , and therefore the Egyptians considered themselves ceremonially defiled if they ate with any strangers ...
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... reason in the conjecture that Achshaph was another name for Accho or Acre , seeing that Accho otherwise does not occur in the list of towns in the lot of Asher , although it is certain , from Judg . i . 31 . that Accho was in the ...
... reason in the conjecture that Achshaph was another name for Accho or Acre , seeing that Accho otherwise does not occur in the list of towns in the lot of Asher , although it is certain , from Judg . i . 31 . that Accho was in the ...
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... reason- able to suppose that the habit and character of piety were established in many of them . The confusion of tongues , therefore , whatever was the nature of that judicial visitation , would not fall upon that portion of men which ...
... reason- able to suppose that the habit and character of piety were established in many of them . The confusion of tongues , therefore , whatever was the nature of that judicial visitation , would not fall upon that portion of men which ...
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... reason , expressing these facts in simple and artless language , suited to the circumstances of the men to whom revelation was first granted . That this production in a mature state was the fact with regard to the vegetable part of the ...
... reason , expressing these facts in simple and artless language , suited to the circumstances of the men to whom revelation was first granted . That this production in a mature state was the fact with regard to the vegetable part of the ...
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... reason , that no name , description , or information whatever is given that could possibly lead to the ascertainment . Yet we cannot but think the more reasonable probability to be , that it was a tree having poisonous properties ...
... reason , that no name , description , or information whatever is given that could possibly lead to the ascertainment . Yet we cannot but think the more reasonable probability to be , that it was a tree having poisonous properties ...
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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