Sacred Geography: Or, A Gazetteer of the Bible. Containing, in Alphabetical Order, a Geographical Description of All the Countries, Kingdoms, Nations and Tribes of Men, with All the Villages, Towns, Cities, Provinces, Hills, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Seas, and Islands, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures, Or Apocrypha, Including an Account of the Religion, Government, Population, Fulfilment of Prophecies, and Present Condition of the Most Important PlacesSamuel T. Armstrong, 1813 - 522 pages |
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... dead . I shall never envy the man , who can without emotions , undescribable , ascend mount Sinai , where God himself came down , where the voice of the trum- pet waxed louder and louder , where Moses spake , and God answer- ed him by a ...
... dead . I shall never envy the man , who can without emotions , undescribable , ascend mount Sinai , where God himself came down , where the voice of the trum- pet waxed louder and louder , where Moses spake , and God answer- ed him by a ...
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... Dead Sea , * and received its name from the great number of Shittim or Sittim trees , which grew there . As Abel denotes mourning in Hebrew , some have thought , this place received its name on account of the mourning and lamentations ...
... Dead Sea , * and received its name from the great number of Shittim or Sittim trees , which grew there . As Abel denotes mourning in Hebrew , some have thought , this place received its name on account of the mourning and lamentations ...
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... Dead Sea . See Macab . v , 3 . ACRE , or Acco , or ST . JOHN DE ACRE , a sea port town , on the Phoenician coast in Syria . Its ancient name was Acco , or Accho , and is called by the Arabs Akka . It was afterwards denominated Ptole ...
... Dead Sea . See Macab . v , 3 . ACRE , or Acco , or ST . JOHN DE ACRE , a sea port town , on the Phoenician coast in Syria . Its ancient name was Acco , or Accho , and is called by the Arabs Akka . It was afterwards denominated Ptole ...
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... Dead Sea , ( Gen. xiv , 2 ; and Deut . xxii , 23. ) It was the most easterly of all those , which was swallow- ed up , and there is some prob- ability that it was not entirely sunk under the waters ; or that the inhabitants of the ...
... Dead Sea , ( Gen. xiv , 2 ; and Deut . xxii , 23. ) It was the most easterly of all those , which was swallow- ed up , and there is some prob- ability that it was not entirely sunk under the waters ; or that the inhabitants of the ...
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... Dead sea . Rehoboam rebuilt this place , and strengthened it with good fortifications , ( Chron . xi , 7 , 8 ; ) Eusebius says that in his time , it was a large town , ten miles from Eleutheropolis , eastward . Jerom says that in his ...
... Dead sea . Rehoboam rebuilt this place , and strengthened it with good fortifications , ( Chron . xi , 7 , 8 ; ) Eusebius says that in his time , it was a large town , ten miles from Eleutheropolis , eastward . Jerom says that in his ...
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