Scripture Topography: Being Some Account of Places Mentioned in Holy Scripture, Given Principally in Extracts from the Works of Travellers |
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... thousand little traditions ( about ) every stone and stream ; and all that affection treasured up in the memory was more or less connected with the sphere of his daily occupa- tions " In relative situation , the Holy Land had many ad ...
... thousand little traditions ( about ) every stone and stream ; and all that affection treasured up in the memory was more or less connected with the sphere of his daily occupa- tions " In relative situation , the Holy Land had many ad ...
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... thousand years before the advent of our Lord . In the succeeding century , it was captured by the Jebusites , who extended its walls , and built a castle or citadel upon mount Sion . It was taken from them by the forces under the ...
... thousand years before the advent of our Lord . In the succeeding century , it was captured by the Jebusites , who extended its walls , and built a castle or citadel upon mount Sion . It was taken from them by the forces under the ...
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... thousand four hundred years ago ; and when , 650 years after , Titus besieged and took this devoted city , he exclaimed , on viewing the vast strength of the place , -We have certainly had God for our assistant in this war ; and it was ...
... thousand four hundred years ago ; and when , 650 years after , Titus besieged and took this devoted city , he exclaimed , on viewing the vast strength of the place , -We have certainly had God for our assistant in this war ; and it was ...
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... thousand feet above its waters . No " The channel of the valley of Jehoshaphat , the Brook Kidron of the Scriptures , is nothing more than the dry bed of a wintry torrent , bearing marks of being occa- sionally swept over by a large ...
... thousand feet above its waters . No " The channel of the valley of Jehoshaphat , the Brook Kidron of the Scriptures , is nothing more than the dry bed of a wintry torrent , bearing marks of being occa- sionally swept over by a large ...
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... thousands ; and at that turn in the road , where the city in all its mag- nitude bursts at once upon the sight , that he wept . " When he was come near , he beheld the city , and wept over it , saying , If thou hadst known MOUNT OF ...
... thousands ; and at that turn in the road , where the city in all its mag- nitude bursts at once upon the sight , that he wept . " When he was come near , he beheld the city , and wept over it , saying , If thou hadst known MOUNT OF ...
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Page 297 - Now, when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow ; and much people of the city was with her.
Page 63 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 38 - And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Page 102 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Page 239 - Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost...
Page 15 - And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 174 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 164 - And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him. And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
Page 42 - Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
Page 68 - Are here all thy children?' And he said, 'There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep.' And Samuel said unto Jesse, 'Send and fetch him, for we will not sit down till he come hither.' "And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, 'Arise, anoint him, for this is he.