The Natural History of the Bible: Being a Review of the Physical Geography, Geology, and Meteorology of the Holy Land, with a Description of Every Animal and Plant Mentioned in Holy ScriptureSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911 - 520 pagini |
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abundant Africa alluded allusions ancient animal appearance Arabia Arabs Aurochs barley Bashan beasts Bedouin Beersheba birds blossom camels cattle Cedar Chron colour common corn cultivated Dead Sea desert desolate Deut eagles east Egypt Egyptian Engedi feet Fig tree fish flocks frequently fruit Galilee Gennesaret Gilead goats grapes grass ground habits Hebrew Hebrew word Hermon hills Holy Land horses hyæna Israel jackal Jericho Jerusalem Jordan valley Judæa Judah Kings known Lebanon lion lizard locusts Lord Matt mentioned Minnith Moab mountains myrrh nest occurs olive Ostrich Palestine passages Phoenicia plains plant probably prophet Prov rain rendered rocks Scripture Sea of Galilee seed Septuagint serpent Shechem sheep Solomon Southern species Syria tail Testament thee thorns thou translated tribe unclean unto vine Wady wheat wild wilderness wine wings young
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Pagina 90 - To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice : and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him : for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
Pagina 106 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.
Pagina 473 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Pagina 218 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Pagina 160 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings : So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Pagina 112 - After this, I beheld, and lo, another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl: the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
Pagina 200 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
Pagina 404 - Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country...
Pagina 455 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Pagina 100 - The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.