Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea, and in the Bible Lands, in 1850 and 1851, Zväzok 1R. Bentley, 1853 - 604 strán (strany) |
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Strana ix
... our first landing on Syrian ground , we discovered that everything around us had as yet to be studied and inquired into - Europeans being utterly deficient with regard to scientific knowledge in all matters connected with PREFACE . ix.
... our first landing on Syrian ground , we discovered that everything around us had as yet to be studied and inquired into - Europeans being utterly deficient with regard to scientific knowledge in all matters connected with PREFACE . ix.
Strana 11
... ground - plans of all those ancient ruins which we have descried along the sea - shore . But after several hours ' hard labour , I find I must give up a task which would take me more days than I can possibly command . On leaving France ...
... ground - plans of all those ancient ruins which we have descried along the sea - shore . But after several hours ' hard labour , I find I must give up a task which would take me more days than I can possibly command . On leaving France ...
Strana 14
... ground is strewed with fragments of precious marble , and the entrance at least has been inlaid with mosaic work , although coarsely executed . The red and white cubes which compose this mosaic are of unequal sizes ; they do not form ...
... ground is strewed with fragments of precious marble , and the entrance at least has been inlaid with mosaic work , although coarsely executed . The red and white cubes which compose this mosaic are of unequal sizes ; they do not form ...
Strana 22
... ground , while their stalks creep along , buried in the sand . We find , also , here and there , some small green patches , produced by a pretty cruciform plant , with a large pink and white flower . Our horses get on very slowly , and ...
... ground , while their stalks creep along , buried in the sand . We find , also , here and there , some small green patches , produced by a pretty cruciform plant , with a large pink and white flower . Our horses get on very slowly , and ...
Strana 23
... ground . Behind the khan there are heaps of ruins , which indicate the situation of an ancient city . One might suppose it to have been of no great importance , were it not that the immense number of sarcophagi collected together close ...
... ground . Behind the khan there are heaps of ruins , which indicate the situation of an ancient city . One might suppose it to have been of no great importance , were it not that the immense number of sarcophagi collected together close ...
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Abou-Daouk amongst ancient appears Arabs Areopolis Arnon arrive ascend avenue of stones Bedouins Beni-Sakhars Beyrout called cistern cross Dead Sea direction eminence En-gedi encampment Essenians Eusebius fifty yards flank foot formed fragments ground halt Hamdan Hebron hill hillocks horses hour Itinerary Jerusalem Josephus Judah Karak King land of Moab leave look Luhith Masada Matteo Medeba mentioned Midjielly miles minutes past eight minutes past eleven minutes past nine minutes past twelve Moab Moabites Mohammed moukris mountain night o'clock ouad ourselves pass passage Pentapolis Peutinger's Table piastres plain ravine reach Reland resume our march Rhôr road rocks Roman ruins salt Saydah scarcely Scheikh Scylax Sebbeh shore side situated Sodom soon spot Strabo summit tents thousand yards torrent tower town tribe tribe of Judah turn valley village walls whilst wind Zeboiim Ziph Zoar πόλις
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Strana 458 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Strana 564 - And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre : the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
Strana 466 - Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot ; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded , but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Strana 484 - And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life ; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain ; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Strana 463 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Strana 565 - And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
Strana 464 - And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land?
Strana 436 - From thence they removed and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
Strana 557 - See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you : and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
Strana 105 - And the battle went sore against Saul and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, "Draw thy sword and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me.