Illustrations of Scripture, from the Geography, Natural History, and Manners and Customs of the East, Volume 1Oliphant, 1842 |
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... reasons which have induced the friends of the esteemed Author of the Scripture Illustrations ' to desire that a suc- cinct Memoir of his life should accompany this his chief work ; the more especially as no account of him , in any ex ...
... reasons which have induced the friends of the esteemed Author of the Scripture Illustrations ' to desire that a suc- cinct Memoir of his life should accompany this his chief work ; the more especially as no account of him , in any ex ...
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... reason it was , in succeeding ages , imposed as a proper name on several other places remarkable for the plea- santness of their situation , and the diversified richness of the scenery with which they were adorned . · To one of those ...
... reason it was , in succeeding ages , imposed as a proper name on several other places remarkable for the plea- santness of their situation , and the diversified richness of the scenery with which they were adorned . · To one of those ...
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... reason ; and from these proper names , the belief arose in after ages that Paradise was situated in Arabia Felix . * Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem , p . 133 . † Noticed by Maudrell , p . 135 . But to none of these places , will the ...
... reason ; and from these proper names , the belief arose in after ages that Paradise was situated in Arabia Felix . * Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem , p . 133 . † Noticed by Maudrell , p . 135 . But to none of these places , will the ...
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... reason to conclude , that the western channel of the Euphrates is the Pison of the Sacred Scriptures . The name of the second river is Gihon , concerning which Moses says , The same is it which compasseth the whole land of Cush . ' As ...
... reason to conclude , that the western channel of the Euphrates is the Pison of the Sacred Scriptures . The name of the second river is Gihon , concerning which Moses says , The same is it which compasseth the whole land of Cush . ' As ...
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... reason , that Apamea received the surname of Cibotus , because it was in- closed in the shape of an ark by three rivers , which give it the resemblance to a chest or ark . In like manner , he observes , the port of Alexandria was called ...
... reason , that Apamea received the surname of Cibotus , because it was in- closed in the shape of an ark by three rivers , which give it the resemblance to a chest or ark . In like manner , he observes , the port of Alexandria was called ...
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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.