A Geographical & Historical Dictionary of Palestine, Or, The Holy Land ...1852 |
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الصفحة 52 - And it was so, that all that saw it, said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
الصفحة 9 - Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
الصفحة 83 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, — Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
الصفحة 5 - ... a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey...
الصفحة 4 - Calvary, — -in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed For our advantage to the bitter cross, studying the path in which those footsteps lie, if perhaps we may catch some vision of the present Jesus.
الصفحة 61 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol.
الصفحة 70 - The tract of which they thus became possessed was subsequently allotted to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
الصفحة 40 - And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
الصفحة 62 - I am to be gathered unto my people : bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite...
الصفحة 55 - It is truly a curious and interesting fact/' adds a learned traveller, " that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems, and Christians, have been successively in possession of the rocky mountains of Palestine ; yet the olive still vindicates its paternal soil, and is found, at this day, upon the same spot which was called by the Hebrew writers Mount Olivet, and the Mount of Olives, eleven centuries before the Christian era,