The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1866 - 474 pages |
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according Akaba alluded ancient Arabia Petræa Arabs Arindela ascended Beduins Beersheba brought Burckhardt called camels children of Israel Christian coast conjecture connection convent Dead Sea desert district east Edom Egypt Egyptian Elath expeditions Ezion-geber farther feet Gaza Gesenius Gharundel given gold gorge granite Gulf harbour Hebrew Hebron Horeb hundred India inscriptions Israelites Jebel Musa journey Kadesh king Laborde land Lassen Lepsius manna mentioned Mokkateb monks Moses Mount Sinai mountain Nabathæans Nakb neighbourhood Niebuhr northern Ophir Palestine passed Petra Pharan Phoenicians pilgrims plain Quatremère Red Sea region Rephidim Ritter road Robinson rock route ruins Ruppell Russegger Schubert Sebaijeh Seetzen Serbal Sherm shore side Sinai Peninsula Solomon southern St Catherine stone Suez summit Tabula Peutingeriana Tarshish Towara traces travellers trees tribes valley Wadi el Sheikh Wadi Feiran Wadi Musa walls Wellsted whole wilderness word
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Page 209 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 75 - And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people ; and much people of Israel died.
Page 434 - The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high ; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground ? Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
Page 75 - And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness ? for there is no bread, neither is there any water ; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
Page 82 - And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones : there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
Page 319 - In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
Page 395 - They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent : they are confederate against thee...
Page 318 - Eliezer ; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh : 5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God : 6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
Page 277 - Manna : and it was like coriander seed, white ; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations ; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
Page 110 - Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel ; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.