Antiquities of the Orient Unveiled: Containing a Concise Description of the Remarkable Ruins of King Solomon's Temple, and Store Cities, Together with Those of All the Most Ancient and Renowned Cities of the East, Including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and ShushanTemple Pub. Union, 1875 - 541 pages |
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... BEAUTIFUL LITHOGRAPHS , AND NINETY FULL PAGE ENGRAVINGS . Of Guide to THE BY AUTHOR Mount Moriah , Ruins and Relics of the Holy City , & c . , & c . LIBRAR OF THE UNIVERNA OF CALIFORNI NEW YORK : TEMPLE PUBLISHING UNION . 731 BROADWAY ...
... BEAUTIFUL LITHOGRAPHS , AND NINETY FULL PAGE ENGRAVINGS . Of Guide to THE BY AUTHOR Mount Moriah , Ruins and Relics of the Holy City , & c . , & c . LIBRAR OF THE UNIVERNA OF CALIFORNI NEW YORK : TEMPLE PUBLISHING UNION . 731 BROADWAY ...
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... beautiful furniture and sacred vessels , there remains only a time - worn sculpture of the Candlestick and the crumbling Triumphal Arch of Titus at Rome . Besides these material things there is a long proces- sion of good men and women ...
... beautiful furniture and sacred vessels , there remains only a time - worn sculpture of the Candlestick and the crumbling Triumphal Arch of Titus at Rome . Besides these material things there is a long proces- sion of good men and women ...
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... beautiful capital of the age . Its population at this time was about 150,000 . Rehoboam , son and successor of King Solomon , ascended the throne 976 B.C. , and reigned 17 years . Under his reign the ten tribes revolted and formed the ...
... beautiful capital of the age . Its population at this time was about 150,000 . Rehoboam , son and successor of King Solomon , ascended the throne 976 B.C. , and reigned 17 years . Under his reign the ten tribes revolted and formed the ...
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... beautiful , and bore inscriptions . The Romans used pottery to a great extent , and always left fragments of broken ware wherever they camped , and some interesting specimens have been found in Jericho and other places in Palestine ...
... beautiful , and bore inscriptions . The Romans used pottery to a great extent , and always left fragments of broken ware wherever they camped , and some interesting specimens have been found in Jericho and other places in Palestine ...
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... beautiful ever greens of Palestine . It is often found growing in the dry bed of some extinct brook where all other trees have died out . The wood is fine - grained , hard , and of a brown color . The leaves are small and pinnulate ...
... beautiful ever greens of Palestine . It is often found growing in the dry bed of some extinct brook where all other trees have died out . The wood is fine - grained , hard , and of a brown color . The leaves are small and pinnulate ...
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Page 336 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 220 - And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Page 511 - Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised; there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
Page 80 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, "I have sinned, in that I have betrayed the innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? see thou to that." And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 366 - But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Page 315 - And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven; and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Page 520 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 511 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
Page 510 - For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever : that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
Page 219 - Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth : and he said Sibboleth : for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan : and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.