A Historico-geographical Account of Palestine in the Time of Christ: Or, The Bible Student's Help to a Thorough Knowledge of ScriptureThomas Clark, 1843 - 240 страници |
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Страница 255 - I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people, In the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
Страница 204 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Страница 194 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Страница 198 - But Peter and they that were with Him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw His glory, and the two men that stood with Him.
Страница 205 - For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Страница 304 - He turneth rivers into a wilderness and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Страница 208 - ... beautiful pillars flanking the doors of the temple now thrown open and displaying the interior brilliantly lighted up; while the burnished gold of the floor, the ceiling, and the walls, with the precious gems with which they were enriched, reflecting the light on all sides, would completely overwhelm the imagination, were it not excited by the view of the embroidered veil, to consider the yet more awful glories of the most Holy Place.
Страница 197 - So feeble a population in so excellent a country may well excite our astonishment; but this will be increased, if we compare the present number of inhabitants with that of ancient times.
Страница 308 - The first view of it from the west strikingly illustrates the accuracy of Strabo's description of its site. " Rocky precipices of a rich reddish-brown colour surrounded us ; and before us, across a scorched and desolate tract, were the cliff of Sebbeh, with its ruins, the adjacent height with rugged defiles between, and the Dead Sea lying motionless in its bed beneath. The aspect of the whole was that of lonely and stern grandeur.
Страница 197 - With its numerous advantages of climate and soil, it is not astonishing that Syria should always have been esteemed a most delicious country, and that the Greeks and Romans ranked it among the most beautiful of their provinces, and even thought it not inferior to Egypt.