Idumaea: With a Survey of Arabia and the ArabiansReligious Tract Society, 1799 - 192 pagini |
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Pagina 10
... chief of its isles , rich , fertile , and luxuriant . Its islets are innumerable ; oases , embosomed in every valley , and surrounding every foun- tain , which one is startled to find so green and beautiful in such a waste . But its ...
... chief of its isles , rich , fertile , and luxuriant . Its islets are innumerable ; oases , embosomed in every valley , and surrounding every foun- tain , which one is startled to find so green and beautiful in such a waste . But its ...
Pagina 24
... chief place in their thoughts . " In the words of Gibbon , which unintentionally confirm the prophecy , they are " armed against man- kind . " Their internal feuds are likewise com- mon , and there are few tribes which are ever in a ...
... chief place in their thoughts . " In the words of Gibbon , which unintentionally confirm the prophecy , they are " armed against man- kind . " Their internal feuds are likewise com- mon , and there are few tribes which are ever in a ...
Pagina 33
... chief had lately died , made an attack upon the Christian anchorites , and all who could not reach a neighbouring tower were killed . The Saracens attacked the tower , and were near taking it , when , according to the fable of Ammon ...
... chief had lately died , made an attack upon the Christian anchorites , and all who could not reach a neighbouring tower were killed . The Saracens attacked the tower , and were near taking it , when , according to the fable of Ammon ...
Pagina 41
... chief town , Petra , which itself signifies a rock . 19 Arabia Deserta lies eastward of Arabia Petræa , and extends on the north to Syria , on the north - east to the Euphrates , and on the south - east to the Indian Ocean . The Arabs ...
... chief town , Petra , which itself signifies a rock . 19 Arabia Deserta lies eastward of Arabia Petræa , and extends on the north to Syria , on the north - east to the Euphrates , and on the south - east to the Indian Ocean . The Arabs ...
Pagina 42
... chief elements of the soil , which in many places is entirely bare , but elsewhere yields stunted and thorny shrubs , or thinly - scattered saline plants . The sky is generally cloudless , but the burning heat of the sun is moderated by ...
... chief elements of the soil , which in many places is entirely bare , but elsewhere yields stunted and thorny shrubs , or thinly - scattered saline plants . The sky is generally cloudless , but the burning heat of the sun is moderated by ...
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Pagina 191 - Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places ; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down ; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.
Pagina 192 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it they fell on their faces and they said, "The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
Pagina 184 - It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Pagina 159 - Thy terribleness hath deceived thee and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that boldest the height of the hill. Though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
Pagina 79 - And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan ; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
Pagina 23 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Pagina 166 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats...
Pagina 79 - Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
Pagina 167 - And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Pagina 83 - Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: 16 And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border.