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, 1797 |
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Page 34
... feast of Tabernacles was about the time of the latter rains . Lightfoot cites Joel 2. 23 , in fupport of this opinion , than which nothing could be more inconclufive , as it is well known that the month next after the vernal Equinox is ...
... feast of Tabernacles was about the time of the latter rains . Lightfoot cites Joel 2. 23 , in fupport of this opinion , than which nothing could be more inconclufive , as it is well known that the month next after the vernal Equinox is ...
Page 145
... ; to which they were wont to invite their friends , 2 Sam . xiii . 24 ; and the feasts being held at a distance from VOL . I. L their 1 } their own houfes , in the places where the fheep in the Holy - Land . 145 · ...
... ; to which they were wont to invite their friends , 2 Sam . xiii . 24 ; and the feasts being held at a distance from VOL . I. L their 1 } their own houfes , in the places where the fheep in the Holy - Land . 145 · ...
Page 151
... feast of the " Lord yearly , in a place which is on the " north - fide of Bethel , on the east - fide of the 66 highway that goeth up from Bethel to " Shechem , and on the fouth of Lebonah- " Go , and lie in wait in the vineyards ...
... feast of the " Lord yearly , in a place which is on the " north - fide of Bethel , on the east - fide of the 66 highway that goeth up from Bethel to " Shechem , and on the fouth of Lebonah- " Go , and lie in wait in the vineyards ...
Page 191
... feast made by Belshazzar to a thousand of his Lords , when he drank wine before the thousand ' , was held in a quadrangle of his palace ; which poffibly may help to explain some passages of this tranfaction better than has hitherto been ...
... feast made by Belshazzar to a thousand of his Lords , when he drank wine before the thousand ' , was held in a quadrangle of his palace ; which poffibly may help to explain some passages of this tranfaction better than has hitherto been ...
Page 342
... feasts of Mohammed Ebn Toulon , or Mohammed the fon of Toulon , Maillet tells us ' , from the Arabian writers , were fo abun- dant as to feed fourteen thousand perfons , who belonged to the different offices of his household . The ...
... feasts of Mohammed Ebn Toulon , or Mohammed the fon of Toulon , Maillet tells us ' , from the Arabian writers , were fo abun- dant as to feed fourteen thousand perfons , who belonged to the different offices of his household . The ...
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