Illustrations of Scripture, from the Geography, Natural History, and Manners and Customs of the East, Том 1Oliphant, 1842 |
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... direction , might bury some extensive tracts of country , with all their habitations and improvements , in the bottom of the sea , and compensate for their destruc- tion , by elevating submarine districts of equal extent into dry land ...
... direction , might bury some extensive tracts of country , with all their habitations and improvements , in the bottom of the sea , and compensate for their destruc- tion , by elevating submarine districts of equal extent into dry land ...
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... direction . The land of Eden then lay on the single channel which was common to all the four rivers ; for , says the historian , ' A river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted and became into four heads ...
... direction . The land of Eden then lay on the single channel which was common to all the four rivers ; for , says the historian , ' A river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted and became into four heads ...
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... direction towards Armenia , a still stronger current from the north arising from the Black and Caspian Seas , between which Caucasus is situated , must have prevented its being wafted so far north as that mountain . The only startling ...
... direction towards Armenia , a still stronger current from the north arising from the Black and Caspian Seas , between which Caucasus is situated , must have prevented its being wafted so far north as that mountain . The only startling ...
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... direction south - east , and gradually descending from a great height , through a very extended sloping country , towards the immense plain of Ararat . ' ' As the vale opened beneath us in our descent , my whole attention became ...
... direction south - east , and gradually descending from a great height , through a very extended sloping country , towards the immense plain of Ararat . ' ' As the vale opened beneath us in our descent , my whole attention became ...
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... direction , and was connected by a hollow , likewise covered with perpetual ice , with another rather lower summit , which , by Mr Federow's trigonometrical measurement , was found to be 187 toises distant from the principal summit . On ...
... direction , and was connected by a hollow , likewise covered with perpetual ice , with another rather lower summit , which , by Mr Federow's trigonometrical measurement , was found to be 187 toises distant from the principal summit . On ...
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afterwards Amorites ancient Arabia Arabs Ararat Armenia Assyria Babel Babylon Babylonia Bashan beautiful Bochart border built called Canaan celebrated Chron descendants desert divine earth east Egypt Etham Euphrates Ezekiel favour feet fertile formed garden Genesis Geog Greeks gulf Havilah heaven Hebrew Hermon hills Hist Holy inhabitants inspired writer Isaiah Israel Israelites Jeremiah Jerusalem Jordan Josephus Joshua Judah Judea king kingdom lake land Lebanon Lord Medes mentioned Mesopotamia miles Moab Moses moun mount mountains nations natural neighbourhood Nile Noah original Palestine passage Persian Phaleg plain prince probably prophet province Psalm rain Red Sea region rendered river rock ruins sacred writers Samuel says scene Scripture seems Shinar shore side situated soil spot stood Strabo streams summit supposed Syria tains thee Tigris tion tower town Travels trees tribe unto vale valley whole wilderness wind words Zion
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Страница 88 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Страница 80 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people...
Страница 142 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Страница 88 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Страница 64 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Страница 86 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Страница 289 - I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His 'branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Страница 362 - Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Страница 90 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Страница 312 - And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.