Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures: Derived Principally from the Manners, Customs, Rites, Traditions, Forms of Speech, Antiquities, Climate, and Works of Art and Literature, of the Eastern Nations ; Emodying All that is Valuable in the Works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the Most Celebrated Oriental Travellers ; Embracing Also the Subject of the Fulfilment of Prophecy, as Exhibited by Keith and Others ...George Bush Brattleboro ̓Typographic Company, 1839 - 656 pages |
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... look upon Idumea , and see how the lines of confusion and the stones of emptiness have been stretched over it ? ( in literal fulfilment of pro phecy ) " And we may now in like manner look upon the ruins of the chief city of Edom ...
... look upon Idumea , and see how the lines of confusion and the stones of emptiness have been stretched over it ? ( in literal fulfilment of pro phecy ) " And we may now in like manner look upon the ruins of the chief city of Edom ...
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... look to what follows . In proceeding to those arrangements by which the earth was to be fitted for the residence and support of man , and the other inferior tribes by which it was then to be tenanted , we find him describing its ...
... look to what follows . In proceeding to those arrangements by which the earth was to be fitted for the residence and support of man , and the other inferior tribes by which it was then to be tenanted , we find him describing its ...
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... look across the valley , to take into one distinct field of vision , without a single intervening obstacle , the mighty mass from its base to its summit . At Eriván it presents two peaks , one much lower than the other , and appears to ...
... look across the valley , to take into one distinct field of vision , without a single intervening obstacle , the mighty mass from its base to its summit . At Eriván it presents two peaks , one much lower than the other , and appears to ...
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... look upward , but to look directly at an object , and that earnestly 4 СНАР . 18 . 25 GENESIS . 25 immediately retire into the deserts far beyond the reach of ...
... look upward , but to look directly at an object , and that earnestly 4 СНАР . 18 . 25 GENESIS . 25 immediately retire into the deserts far beyond the reach of ...
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... look back , as " it would be very unfortunate . " Should a husband have left any thing which his wife knows he will require , she will not call on him to turn or look back ; but will either take the article herself , or send it by ...
... look back , as " it would be very unfortunate . " Should a husband have left any thing which his wife knows he will require , she will not call on him to turn or look back ; but will either take the article herself , or send it by ...
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Page 264 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 281 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Page 29 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 27 - And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 257 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 295 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 47 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 124 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 63 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Page 269 - And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.