Sacred Streams; Or: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the BibleStringer & Townsend, 1852 - 360 pagini |
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Pagina 23
... Persian Cyclamen . yards and olive - yards , and with orchards and gardens in which grow the fig , the mulberry , the pomegra- nate , the apple , the pear , the almond , and the apricot . These are for the most part richly covered with ...
... Persian Cyclamen . yards and olive - yards , and with orchards and gardens in which grow the fig , the mulberry , the pomegra- nate , the apple , the pear , the almond , and the apricot . These are for the most part richly covered with ...
Pagina 50
... Persian monarchy was destined to yield to the Macedonian , represented by the belly and thighs ( or sides ) of brass ; a metal peculiarly suitable to prefigure the Grecians , inasmuch as it was the material of which their armor was made ...
... Persian monarchy was destined to yield to the Macedonian , represented by the belly and thighs ( or sides ) of brass ; a metal peculiarly suitable to prefigure the Grecians , inasmuch as it was the material of which their armor was made ...
Pagina 63
... Persian conqueror , had gradu- ally been subduing the surrounding nations , and the provinces of this kingdom , until at length this ancient and mighty city was the only place that held out against his victorious arms . Two years had ...
... Persian conqueror , had gradu- ally been subduing the surrounding nations , and the provinces of this kingdom , until at length this ancient and mighty city was the only place that held out against his victorious arms . Two years had ...
Pagina 65
... Persian general had opened also his great trench . About midnight , however , the soldiers were able to march in the diminished stream , and entered the city . In the neglect and disorder of the festival , the brazen gates that led from ...
... Persian general had opened also his great trench . About midnight , however , the soldiers were able to march in the diminished stream , and entered the city . In the neglect and disorder of the festival , the brazen gates that led from ...
Pagina 66
... Persian monarch brought up his army , they did not attempt to meet him in the field , but , shutting their hundred gates , defied his power . The horrible cruelty of putting the women and children to death , to save their provisions ...
... Persian monarch brought up his army , they did not attempt to meet him in the field , but , shutting their hundred gates , defied his power . The horrible cruelty of putting the women and children to death , to save their provisions ...
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: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible Philip Henry Gosse Vizualizare completă - 1850 |
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 David Dead Sea death 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 hills Holy honour host idolatry inhabitants Israel Jabbok Jarmuk Jehovah Jerusalem Jordan Judah Kidron king kingdom lake Lake of Gennesaret land length lofty Lord Jesus magnificent Medes mighty miles Moab monarch mound mountains Nahor nations Nineveh palace Palestine passed Persian Philistines plain promised prophet ravine region reign righteousness rise river rock ruins scene seen servant side Sisera Spirit stones stream summit thee thou thousand throne Tiberias Tigris traveller trees tribes unto valley Wady walls whole wild word
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Pagina 157 - 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. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground ; and it practised, and prospered.
Pagina 56 - It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, And dragons in their pleasant palaces: And her time is near to come, And her days shall...
Pagina 90 - 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 120 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...
Pagina 303 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Pagina 250 - O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee...
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 143 - Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east : and, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters : and the earth shined with his glory.
Pagina 157 - And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
Pagina 144 - Come, then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.