Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New ... and More Amply Illustrating the Rest Than Has Been Yet Done, by Means of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East: In Two Volumes. ...J. Johnson, 1787 - Bible |
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... birds , reprefents it as a fubterraneous labyrinth , from which perfons could not difengage themfelves , were it not for the help of a line of packthread . It's feveral alleys are adorned , on each fide , with many small niches , in ...
... birds , reprefents it as a fubterraneous labyrinth , from which perfons could not difengage themfelves , were it not for the help of a line of packthread . It's feveral alleys are adorned , on each fide , with many small niches , in ...
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... birds , but is not pleafed at all with their " fongs ; " fince it is common to all , the young and the healthy , as well as the aged , in the Eaft , to rife with the dawn , and confe- quently with the beginning of the finging of the birds ...
... birds , but is not pleafed at all with their " fongs ; " fince it is common to all , the young and the healthy , as well as the aged , in the Eaft , to rife with the dawn , and confe- quently with the beginning of the finging of the birds ...
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... bird means the crow- ing of the cock , which is in the night , before the dawning of the day . Accordingly we find Solomon doth not speak of the birds in the plural , but of the bird , the bird whofe voice was first heard in the morning ...
... bird means the crow- ing of the cock , which is in the night , before the dawning of the day . Accordingly we find Solomon doth not speak of the birds in the plural , but of the bird , the bird whofe voice was first heard in the morning ...
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... bird is called a lord of the wing , Prov . i . 17. The collections of d'Herbelot prove , that the like form of speech still obtains in those countries ; for he tells us the word faheb fignifies the mafter , author , or poffeffor of a ...
... bird is called a lord of the wing , Prov . i . 17. The collections of d'Herbelot prove , that the like form of speech still obtains in those countries ; for he tells us the word faheb fignifies the mafter , author , or poffeffor of a ...
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... birds that appear and difappear in this country , ftorks are mentioned in our tranflation , and accordingly Doubdan found them , in great numbers , in the month of May , refiding in Galilee , Returning Returning from Cana to Nazareth on ...
... birds that appear and difappear in this country , ftorks are mentioned in our tranflation , and accordingly Doubdan found them , in great numbers , in the month of May , refiding in Galilee , Returning Returning from Cana to Nazareth on ...
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Page 318 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Page 269 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter : therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Page 53 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 63 - And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes : and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Page 85 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 50 - And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
Page 434 - Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
Page 62 - And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Page 400 - And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Page 370 - I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way : because we had spoken unto the king, saying, " The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him ; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.