Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations and Especially the Jews Therein Alluded to : Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Volume 1 |
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Soon after , we arrived at the hithermost bank of the river , where I thought we were to pitch our tent : the drivers suddenly tript up the cow , and gave the poor animal a very rude fall upon the ground , which was but the beginning of ...
Soon after , we arrived at the hithermost bank of the river , where I thought we were to pitch our tent : the drivers suddenly tript up the cow , and gave the poor animal a very rude fall upon the ground , which was but the beginning of ...
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“ We have an instance , in the life of Saul , that shews the propensity of the Israelites to this crime : Saul's army , after a battle , flew , that is , fell voraciously upon the cattle they had taken , and threw them upon the ground ...
“ We have an instance , in the life of Saul , that shews the propensity of the Israelites to this crime : Saul's army , after a battle , flew , that is , fell voraciously upon the cattle they had taken , and threw them upon the ground ...
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This was the only lawful way of killing animals for food ; the tying of the ox , and throwing it upon the ground was not permitted as equivalent . The Israelites did probably , in that case , as the Abyssinians do at this day ; they cut ...
This was the only lawful way of killing animals for food ; the tying of the ox , and throwing it upon the ground was not permitted as equivalent . The Israelites did probably , in that case , as the Abyssinians do at this day ; they cut ...
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There is no ] ground for supposing that the ancient eastern saddles were like our modern ones . Such were not known to the Greeks and Romans till many ages after the Hebrew judges . “ No nation of antiquity knew the use of either ...
There is no ] ground for supposing that the ancient eastern saddles were like our modern ones . Such were not known to the Greeks and Romans till many ages after the Hebrew judges . “ No nation of antiquity knew the use of either ...
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The extreme heat of the ground might render sitting there disagreeable . The same inconvenience might arise also from its wetness . It was certainly a very common practice ; and as it appears from the instance of Jacob , a very ancient ...
The extreme heat of the ground might render sitting there disagreeable . The same inconvenience might arise also from its wetness . It was certainly a very common practice ; and as it appears from the instance of Jacob , a very ancient ...
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Page 311 - And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 66 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Page 243 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed ; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Page 376 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Page 286 - And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Page 310 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Page 222 - This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it ; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
Page 141 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened. And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low...
Page 398 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads ; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Page 297 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.