Sacred Streams: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the BibleC. Cox, 1850 - 360 pagini |
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Pagina 20
... feet high ; but at the western side it rises in a conical figure to the eleva- tion of 198 feet , and on its summit is a solid pile of brick thirty - seven feet high by twenty - eight in breadth , THE MESOPOTAMIAN VALLEY . 21 ...
... feet high ; but at the western side it rises in a conical figure to the eleva- tion of 198 feet , and on its summit is a solid pile of brick thirty - seven feet high by twenty - eight in breadth , THE MESOPOTAMIAN VALLEY . 21 ...
Pagina 21
... feet each way , the true or measured base ; and there is a quadrangular enclosure round the whole as at the Mujelibè , [ another immense ruin , supposed to have been the palace of the kings of Babylon , ] but much more perfect , and of ...
... feet each way , the true or measured base ; and there is a quadrangular enclosure round the whole as at the Mujelibè , [ another immense ruin , supposed to have been the palace of the kings of Babylon , ] but much more perfect , and of ...
Pagina 41
... feet in height , and 87 in thickness . An idea may be formed of this wall , by comparing it with the dome of St. Paul's , which is about equal in height , and by saying that its breadth was considerably more than half as much again as ...
... feet in height , and 87 in thickness . An idea may be formed of this wall , by comparing it with the dome of St. Paul's , which is about equal in height , and by saying that its breadth was considerably more than half as much again as ...
Pagina 43
... feet square , which were filled with earth . Thus support to the stupendous structure was afforded , and at the same time sufficient space was allowed for the roots of the most spreading trees . A few years ago an interesting discovery ...
... feet square , which were filled with earth . Thus support to the stupendous structure was afforded , and at the same time sufficient space was allowed for the roots of the most spreading trees . A few years ago an interesting discovery ...
Pagina 47
... feet terminate in lion's claws . A footstool of similar materials stands before it , and above it is suspended the winged globe , another symbol of deity . On the throne , the centre and object of a homage scarcely less than adoration ...
... feet terminate in lion's claws . A footstool of similar materials stands before it , and above it is suspended the winged globe , another symbol of deity . On the throne , the centre and object of a homage scarcely less than adoration ...
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Sacred Streams: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible Philip Henry Gosse Vizualizare completă - 1883 |
Sacred Streams: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible Philip Henry Gosse Vizualizare completă - 1850 |
Sacred Streams; Or: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible Philip Henry Gosse Vizualizare completă - 1852 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
Abimelech Amorites ancient apostasy appearance Arabs Aroer Assyrian Babylon banks Bashan beasts beautiful blessed brook called Canaan captivity chariot Christ course covered David Dead Sea deep desert desolation Divine doubtless earth Elijah enemies Esar-haddon Eshcol Euphrates evil faith feet fertile flocks flows fords fruit gates Gerar glorious glory God's grace groves hand hath head heart heaven heavenly Hebrew height hills Holy honour host idolatry inhabitants Israel Jabbok Jarmuk Jehovah Jericho Jerusalem Jordan Judah Kidron king kingdom lake Lake of Gennesaret land length lofty Lord Jesus luxuriant magnificent Medes mighty miles Moab monarch mound mountains Nahor Nineveh palace Palestine Persian Philistines plain promised prophet ravine region reign rich rise river rock ruins scene seen servant side Sisera solemn spirit stones stream summit thousand throne Tiberias Tigris traveller trees tribes unto valley Wady walls whole wild word
Pasaje populare
Pagina 310 - 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.
Pagina 92 - Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Pagina 159 - Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Pagina 227 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt . And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.
Pagina 252 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands.
Pagina 4 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no 'galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Pagina 55 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Pagina 3 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
Pagina 62 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Pagina 305 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.