Idumaea: With a Survey of Arabia and the ArabiansReligious Tract Society, 1799 - 192 pages |
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... Egypt , as thou goest toward Assyria . " Several of the tribes descended from Ishmael , and dwelling in this land between Egypt and Assyria , are well known , such as those of Kedar and Nebajoth . The mother of Ishmael's family was ...
... Egypt , as thou goest toward Assyria . " Several of the tribes descended from Ishmael , and dwelling in this land between Egypt and Assyria , are well known , such as those of Kedar and Nebajoth . The mother of Ishmael's family was ...
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... Egypt to deliver Israel . So that he knew the spot to which the pillar of cloud and fire had now conducted the ransomed people- " this adytum in the midst of the great circular granite region , with only a single feasible entrance ; a ...
... Egypt to deliver Israel . So that he knew the spot to which the pillar of cloud and fire had now conducted the ransomed people- " this adytum in the midst of the great circular granite region , with only a single feasible entrance ; a ...
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... were wont to draw their sublimest images . In the middle of the third century of the Christian era these mountains were the refuge of Egyptian Christians in times of persecution , The legend of St. first fled to where they were 32 IDUMEA .
... were wont to draw their sublimest images . In the middle of the third century of the Christian era these mountains were the refuge of Egyptian Christians in times of persecution , The legend of St. first fled to where they were 32 IDUMEA .
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... Egypt , and were soon followed by communities of monks in desert places . These were attracted by the loneliness and desolation of Mount Sinai , About the year 373 , a pilgrim named Ammon found many anchorites living here under a ...
... Egypt , and were soon followed by communities of monks in desert places . These were attracted by the loneliness and desolation of Mount Sinai , About the year 373 , a pilgrim named Ammon found many anchorites living here under a ...
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... Egypt to Mount Sinai , during the fourth century . But this opinion is not without its difficulties . Professor Beer of Leipzig regards them as exhibiting the only remains of the language and character once peculiar to the Nabatheans of ...
... Egypt to Mount Sinai , during the fourth century . But this opinion is not without its difficulties . Professor Beer of Leipzig regards them as exhibiting the only remains of the language and character once peculiar to the Nabatheans of ...
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Page 191 - Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places ; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down ; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.
Page 192 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it they fell on their faces and they said, "The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
Page 184 - It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Page 159 - Thy terribleness hath deceived thee and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that boldest 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 79 - And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan ; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
Page 23 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Page 166 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats...
Page 79 - Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
Page 167 - And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Page 83 - Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: 16 And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border.