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 Scripture, Volumul 111Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1875 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina 5
... existence , plunging in a strangely tor- tuous course , with windings so infinitely multiplied that it increases a distance of 6 miles to 200 , while confined within the narrow trench of its lower terraces , rarely more than two miles ...
... existence , plunging in a strangely tor- tuous course , with windings so infinitely multiplied that it increases a distance of 6 miles to 200 , while confined within the narrow trench of its lower terraces , rarely more than two miles ...
Pagina 13
... existence in a country more limited in its cutward imagery than is the case with Palestine . If the Valley of the Nile or the Arabian Desert had witnessed the whole of the sacred history , we cannot but feel how widely it would have ...
... existence in a country more limited in its cutward imagery than is the case with Palestine . If the Valley of the Nile or the Arabian Desert had witnessed the whole of the sacred history , we cannot but feel how widely it would have ...
Pagina 21
... existence of those great forces which have formerly convulsed the district and so strangely contorted the limestones . East of Jordan , from Hermon to Moab , the geology is similar to that of the right bank , but without traces of the ...
... existence of those great forces which have formerly convulsed the district and so strangely contorted the limestones . East of Jordan , from Hermon to Moab , the geology is similar to that of the right bank , but without traces of the ...
Pagina 32
... the highlands . We also see how , by a proper system of irrigation and reservoirs , of the former existence of which the ruins all over the country testify , the land might be cultivated to a 32 METEOROLOGY OF PALESTINE .
... the highlands . We also see how , by a proper system of irrigation and reservoirs , of the former existence of which the ruins all over the country testify , the land might be cultivated to a 32 METEOROLOGY OF PALESTINE .
Pagina 53
... existence . Several extinct species of hippopotamus have been found in the later tertiary deposits , both of England and other countries of Europe , embedded in gravel which contains shells of many existing species of the locality ...
... existence . Several extinct species of hippopotamus have been found in the later tertiary deposits , both of England and other countries of Europe , embedded in gravel which contains shells of many existing species of the locality ...
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abundant addax Africa alluded allusion ancient animal appearance Arabia Arabs Bedouin Beersheba birds camels cattle chariots Chron colour common corn creature cultivated Dead Sea desert desolate Deut eagles east Egypt Egyptian Egyptian Vulture Engedi feet fish flesh flocks fowls frequently fruit Galilee gazelle Gennesaret Gilead goats Griffon ground habits Hebrew Hebrew word Hermon hills Holy Land horns horses hyæna inhabitants Israel jackal Jericho Jerusalem Jews Jordan valley Judæa Judah Kings known lamb Lebanon leopard lion locusts Lord Matt mentioned Moab mountains nest occurs olive Ostrich Palestine Palm passages plains plant prey probably prophet Prov rendered rocks scarcely Scripture Sea of Galilee Septuagint serpent sheep Solomon Southern species Syria tail thee thou translated tree tribe unclean unto vine vultures Wady wheat wild beasts wilderness wings young
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Pagina 18 - When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth. While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Pagina 92 - 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 421 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Pagina 231 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Pagina 412 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the Lord your God.
Pagina 142 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Pagina 398 - And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed , ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root , and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Pagina 484 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah : Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps.
Pagina 424 - Behold! I dreamed a dream, and lo! a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent and smote it that it fell, and overturned it that the tent lay along.
Pagina 326 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.