Illustrations of Scripture, from the Geography, Natural History, and Manners and Customs of the East, Volume 1Oliphant, 1842 |
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... Mount Ararat as a commanding feature , that natural- ly points out the quarter where the site of Eden is to be sought for . They farther support their opinion by supposing Cush to mean the country of the Cossai , or Caucasus according ...
... Mount Ararat as a commanding feature , that natural- ly points out the quarter where the site of Eden is to be sought for . They farther support their opinion by supposing Cush to mean the country of the Cossai , or Caucasus according ...
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... mount Taurus , which , beginning in the Lesser Asia , stretches as far as the East Indies , might very well be called by Moses the mountains of Ararat , because that was the first country of the Greater Asia through which they passed ...
... mount Taurus , which , beginning in the Lesser Asia , stretches as far as the East Indies , might very well be called by Moses the mountains of Ararat , because that was the first country of the Greater Asia through which they passed ...
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... Mount Judi , the Mons Masius of the classical writers , the Mash of the Hebrews , Gen. x . 23 , the ark first rested ; and that this is Ararat , and not the mountain to which that name is given in Armenia . Hasslin Aga maintained to me ...
... Mount Judi , the Mons Masius of the classical writers , the Mash of the Hebrews , Gen. x . 23 , the ark first rested ; and that this is Ararat , and not the mountain to which that name is given in Armenia . Hasslin Aga maintained to me ...
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... Mount Singaras , a mountain , or rather a chain of mountains , situated in the north of Mesopota- mia , obtained its name , according to Jerome and others , from shen , a tooth , and naar , to thrust out , i . e . because there the ...
... Mount Singaras , a mountain , or rather a chain of mountains , situated in the north of Mesopota- mia , obtained its name , according to Jerome and others , from shen , a tooth , and naar , to thrust out , i . e . because there the ...
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... Mount Sindsjar . It lies in an ex- tremely fruitful plain , and has a very fine and salubrious atmo- sphere . This , ' he adds in a note , ' is probably the Singara of Greek writers . The name has likewise a close resemblance to the ...
... Mount Sindsjar . It lies in an ex- tremely fruitful plain , and has a very fine and salubrious atmo- sphere . This , ' he adds in a note , ' is probably the Singara of Greek writers . The name has likewise a close resemblance to the ...
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Page 88 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 80 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people...
Page 142 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Page 88 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 64 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Page 86 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 289 - I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His 'branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 362 - Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Page 90 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 312 - And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.