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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... inhabitants of Accho . Here the apostle Paul preached the gospel ; here Titus tarried some time to make preparation for the siege of Jerusalem ; here met a general council in the twelfth century . This city successively under the domin ...
... inhabitants of Accho . Here the apostle Paul preached the gospel ; here Titus tarried some time to make preparation for the siege of Jerusalem ; here met a general council in the twelfth century . This city successively under the domin ...
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... inhabitants with great veneration . There is , however , a dispute , whether the word be not an appellative , signifying , an open place , as it is in our bibles , or the dividing of two roads , or two eyes , as a traveller in such a ...
... inhabitants with great veneration . There is , however , a dispute , whether the word be not an appellative , signifying , an open place , as it is in our bibles , or the dividing of two roads , or two eyes , as a traveller in such a ...
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... inhabitants to the extrem- that as this was an acquisition , ity of demanding a capitula- which the Israelites had made tion . Naash answered , that he in a just war , and what they would capitulate with them had taken from the Amorites ...
... inhabitants to the extrem- that as this was an acquisition , ity of demanding a capitula- which the Israelites had made tion . Naash answered , that he in a just war , and what they would capitulate with them had taken from the Amorites ...
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... inhabitants by Chedorla- omer , king of Elam , and his confederates . That we might understand this fact seems to be the design of Moses in giv- ing an account of the con- quests of Chedorlaomar over these countries , Gen. xiv , 5-7 ...
... inhabitants by Chedorla- omer , king of Elam , and his confederates . That we might understand this fact seems to be the design of Moses in giv- ing an account of the con- quests of Chedorlaomar over these countries , Gen. xiv , 5-7 ...
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... inhabitants put to the sword ; four years af- ter this , Justinian rebuilt it , in a more beautiful and regular man- ner , than it was before . The Persians however took it a second time in 574 , and destroyed its walls . In 588 , it ...
... inhabitants put to the sword ; four years af- ter this , Justinian rebuilt it , in a more beautiful and regular man- ner , than it was before . The Persians however took it a second time in 574 , and destroyed its walls . In 588 , it ...
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