The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula, Volume 1T. & T. Clark, 1866 |
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according Akaba alluded ancient Arabia Arabs ascended Beduins brought Burckhardt called camels chapel children of Israel Christian coast conjecture convent desert district east Edom Egypt Egyptian el-Arbain encamped er-Raha expeditions Ezion-geber farther feet Gesenius gold gorge granite Greek Gulf Hebrew Hebron height Horeb hundred India inscriptions Israelites Jebalije Jebel Musa journey Kings Laborde land Lassen Ledja Lepsius manna monks Moses Mount Sinai mountain Nakb neighbourhood Niebuhr northern Ophir passed peak Petra Pharan Phoenicians pilgrims plain Quatremère Red Sea region Rephidim Ritter road Robinson rock route ruins Ruppell Russegger Schubert Seetzen Serbal side Sinai group Sinai Peninsula Solomon southern St Catherine stone Suez summit tamarisk tarfa Tarshish Tartessus Towara traces travellers trees tribes valley voyage Wadi el Sheikh Wadi Feiran Wadi Musa Wadi Sebaijeh Wadi Sheikh walls Wellsted whole wilderness word
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Page 217 - 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 442 - 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 285 - And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
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 327 - 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 403 - 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 326 - 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 285 - 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 442 - Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
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.