Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838, Volume 1Crocker & Brewster, 1841 - Arabia, Roman |
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... Land unfolded itself to our eyes, and the processes by which we were led to the conclusions and opinions advanced in this work. In all this there is at least one advantage for the public. As we venture to hope, that these volumes ...
... Land unfolded itself to our eyes, and the processes by which we were led to the conclusions and opinions advanced in this work. In all this there is at least one advantage for the public. As we venture to hope, that these volumes ...
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... Land unfolded itself to our eyes , and the processes by which we were led to the conclusions and opinions advanced in this work . In all this there is at least one advantage for the public . As we venture to hope , that these volumes ...
... Land unfolded itself to our eyes , and the processes by which we were led to the conclusions and opinions advanced in this work . In all this there is at least one advantage for the public . As we venture to hope , that these volumes ...
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... . I mean the introduction of historical illus- trations , and the discussion of various points relating to the historical topography of the Holy Land . My first purpose was merely to describe what we saw , vi PREFACE .
... . I mean the introduction of historical illus- trations , and the discussion of various points relating to the historical topography of the Holy Land . My first purpose was merely to describe what we saw , vi PREFACE .
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... Land . One branch of these historical investigations , which I cannot but consider as important for the future geographer and traveller , presents a field com- paratively untrodden . I refer to the mass of topo- graphical tradition ...
... Land . One branch of these historical investigations , which I cannot but consider as important for the future geographer and traveller , presents a field com- paratively untrodden . I refer to the mass of topo- graphical tradition ...
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... , as here presented to the public . We wish it to be re- garded merely as a beginning , a first attempt to lay open the treasures of Biblical Geography and History still remaining in the Holy Land , -treasures which have xii PREFACE .
... , as here presented to the public . We wish it to be re- garded merely as a beginning , a first attempt to lay open the treasures of Biblical Geography and History still remaining in the Holy Land , -treasures which have xii PREFACE .
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afterwards Akabah Akra ancient appears Arabs ascended Bedawîn Bezetha Burckhardt Cairo called camels century church convent course crossed Damascus Gate deep descended desert distance East eastern Egypt Egyptian encamped et-Tîh feet former fortress further Gaza Greek Gulf Hebron hills Hinnom Holy hour Israelites Jebel Jerusalem Josephus journey Land of Goshen latter mentioned miles monks mosk Mount Mount of Olives mountains Muhammedan Mûsa N. W. corner narrow North northern o'clock Ophel passed peninsula Piastres plain Pool present probably reached Red Sea Rephidim ridge road rock route ruins running Rüppell seen sepulchres Sheikh shore shrubs side Siloam Sinai slope South southern spot stones Suez summit Syria Tawarah temple Thebes Tîh tion tomb tract travellers tribe Tûr Tuweileb Tyropoeon Valley of Hinnom Valley of Jehoshaphat Wady esh-Sheikh Wady Murrah wall West western whole Yâfa Gate Zion
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Page 426 - And Jesus went out and departed from the temple; and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, "See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.
Page 72 - Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Page 160 - And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it : and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
Page 71 - For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Page 500 - So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water...
Page 3 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 79 - Israelites probably came out upon the eastern shore. Here, at our evening devotions, and near the spot where it was composed and first sung, we read and felt in its full force, the magnificent triumphal song of Moses : " The Lord hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider he hath thrown into the sea...
Page 69 - And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Page 160 - And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
Page 72 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.