“A” Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine, Including an Account of the Geography, History, Antiquities and Inhabitants of These Countries, the Peninsula of Sinai, Edom and the Syrian Desert: With Detaidescriptions of Jerusalem, Petra, Damascus and Palmyra, Volume 1 |
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Page 74 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 228 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Page 200 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, 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 221 - 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. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.
Page 175 - And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Page 260 - But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail: And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 89 - 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 59 - HESE be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 (There are eleven days...
Page 97 - By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast .done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son : that in blessing I will bless thee...
Page 290 - FEATHERSTONHAUGH'S (GW) Tour through the Slave States of North America, from the River Potomac, to Texas and the Frontiers ef Mexico. Plates. 2 Vols. Svo. 26s. FELLOWS' (SiR CHARLES) Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, more particularly in the Province of Lycia.