Illustrations of Scripture, from the Geography, Natural History, and Manners and Customs of the East, Volumen1Oliphant, 1842 |
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Página 14
... remarkable difference between the wisest , the most learned and polished nations of antiquity , and the communities of modern Europe among whom the Scriptures are allowed to circulate freely ? Is it , as many contend , to the ...
... remarkable difference between the wisest , the most learned and polished nations of antiquity , and the communities of modern Europe among whom the Scriptures are allowed to circulate freely ? Is it , as many contend , to the ...
Página 46
... remarkable for the plea- santness of their situation , and the diversified richness of the scenery with which they were adorned . · To one of those fertile spots which , in the progress of time , and in allusion to the garden of God ...
... remarkable for the plea- santness of their situation , and the diversified richness of the scenery with which they were adorned . · To one of those fertile spots which , in the progress of time , and in allusion to the garden of God ...
Página 57
... remarkable statement , which shows that the tree of knowledge , which was situ- ated in the midst of the garden , was traditionally known and imi- tated by the heathen in the plantation of their consecrated groves . They that sanctify ...
... remarkable statement , which shows that the tree of knowledge , which was situ- ated in the midst of the garden , was traditionally known and imi- tated by the heathen in the plantation of their consecrated groves . They that sanctify ...
Página 61
... remarkable for religion , that God , as a signal reward to him , and an encouragement to others , translated him to heaven , without subjecting him to the common lot of our fallen nature . From which of these persons the city of ...
... remarkable for religion , that God , as a signal reward to him , and an encouragement to others , translated him to heaven , without subjecting him to the common lot of our fallen nature . From which of these persons the city of ...
Página 67
... remarkable for their beauty , or recommended by the accommodation they afforded , they might at length , without any fixed purpose of settling in Shinar , reach these luxuriant and happy plains , where they deter- mined THE MOUNTAINS OF ...
... remarkable for their beauty , or recommended by the accommodation they afforded , they might at length , without any fixed purpose of settling in Shinar , reach these luxuriant and happy plains , where they deter- mined THE MOUNTAINS OF ...
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.