Days and Nights in the East, Or, Illustrations of Bible ScenesJ. Nisbet & Company, 1866 - 347 páginas |
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Days and Nights in the East; Or, Illustrations of Bible Scenes Horatius Bonar Vista de fragmentos - 1865 |
Términos y frases comunes
amid Anakim ancient Arab ascended Banias beautiful Bedaween Beersheba Bethany broken called camels castle cave Christian cliffs cloth Crown 8vo descended desert distance dragoman east Eastern Egypt feet flowers foot fruitful garden gate green half-past hand Hebron height Hermon hill hollow HORATIUS BONAR hour inscriptions Israel Jaffa gate Jerusalem Jewish Jews Jordan lake land Lebanon lilies look miles minutes morning Moslem mosque mounds Mount Mount of Olives mountain Mukatteb night olives once ourselves palms passed perhaps piastres plain pleasant R. M. BALLANTYNE ravine reached region ridge rising road rock rocky rough round rugged ruins Sabbath sand scene Sea of Galilee seemed seen sheikh shore shrubs side Sinai slope soil soon spot steep stones stream sunshine tarfa temple tents Tiberias tombs took towers trees valley verdure village Wady walk wall wind Zion
Pasajes populares
Página 84 - God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
Página 160 - In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Página 229 - 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.
Página 29 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
Página 128 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Página 42 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Página 168 - 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 kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Página 172 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Página 281 - And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked ; and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Página 325 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.