The Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, Volume 1John Kitto Newman & Ivison, 1851 |
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... travellers approaching , and hastened to meet them , and hospitably pressed upon them refreshment and rest . They assented , and under the shade of a terebinth tree partook of the abundant fare which the patriarch and his wife provided ...
... travellers approaching , and hastened to meet them , and hospitably pressed upon them refreshment and rest . They assented , and under the shade of a terebinth tree partook of the abundant fare which the patriarch and his wife provided ...
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... travellers . It is close by the lower bridge over the Kedron , and is a square isolated block hewn out from the rocky ledge so as to leave an area or niche around it . The body of this monument is about 24 feet square , and is ...
... travellers . It is close by the lower bridge over the Kedron , and is a square isolated block hewn out from the rocky ledge so as to leave an area or niche around it . The body of this monument is about 24 feet square , and is ...
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... travellers who refer to this tomb , as well as Calmet after them , are satisfied that they find the history of it in 2 Sam . xviii . 18 , which states that Absalom , having no son , built a monument to keep his name in remembrance , and ...
... travellers who refer to this tomb , as well as Calmet after them , are satisfied that they find the history of it in 2 Sam . xviii . 18 , which states that Absalom , having no son , built a monument to keep his name in remembrance , and ...
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... travellers , that the high country of Habesh consists of three terraces , or distinct table - lands , rising one above another , and of which the several grades of ascent offer themselves in succession to the traveller as he advances ...
... travellers , that the high country of Habesh consists of three terraces , or distinct table - lands , rising one above another , and of which the several grades of ascent offer themselves in succession to the traveller as he advances ...
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... travellers who derive their first notions of the East from the Bible , when they come among a strange people , are too ready to set down as specifically Hebrew some of the more striking usages which attract their notice ; whereas , in ...
... travellers who derive their first notions of the East from the Bible , when they come among a strange people , are too ready to set down as specifically Hebrew some of the more striking usages which attract their notice ; whereas , in ...
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Page 62 - 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 24 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Page 96 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 27 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Page 218 - ... 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 274 - And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Page 75 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 322 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 325 - For an Angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Page 234 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive ; Thou hast received gifts for men ; , Yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.