Idumaea: With a Survey of Arabia and the ArabiansReligious Tract Society, 1799 - 192 pages |
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... face of at least one square mile . This space is nearly doubled by a recess in the west , and by the broad and level area of Wady Sheikh on the east , which issues at right angles to the plain , and is equally in view of the front and ...
... face of at least one square mile . This space is nearly doubled by a recess in the west , and by the broad and level area of Wady Sheikh on the east , which issues at right angles to the plain , and is equally in view of the front and ...
Page 28
... face of Horeb rose directly before us . Both my companion and myself involuntarily exclaimed , ' Here is room enough for a large encampment . ' Reach- ing the top of the ascent , or water - shed , a fine broad plain lay before us ...
... face of Horeb rose directly before us . Both my companion and myself involuntarily exclaimed , ' Here is room enough for a large encampment . ' Reach- ing the top of the ascent , or water - shed , a fine broad plain lay before us ...
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... faces , that ye sin not . ' The very locality itself inspires fear . For a considerable time we gave our- selves , in the view of it , to meditation and prayer , and the perusal of the Divine word . " The great event for which Sinai ...
... faces , that ye sin not . ' The very locality itself inspires fear . For a considerable time we gave our- selves , in the view of it , to meditation and prayer , and the perusal of the Divine word . " The great event for which Sinai ...
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... face of the country would lead us , at first view , to suppose . Many of the valleys contain pasturage . The Tiyâhah Bedawín , residing in the northern parts of the peninsula , sow grasses where practicable , and bring plots of ground ...
... face of the country would lead us , at first view , to suppose . Many of the valleys contain pasturage . The Tiyâhah Bedawín , residing in the northern parts of the peninsula , sow grasses where practicable , and bring plots of ground ...
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... faces of the rocks in the Wady Maghârah are cut into tablets , and covered with hiero- glyphics , many of them beautifully executed . " It seems wonderful and almost incredible , " says Mr. Bartlett , " to find here , in so distant a ...
... faces of the rocks in the Wady Maghârah are cut into tablets , and covered with hiero- glyphics , many of them beautifully executed . " It seems wonderful and almost incredible , " says Mr. Bartlett , " to find here , in so distant a ...
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Aaron Abou Raschid Abraham ancient Antar appearance Arabah Arabia Petræa Arabs Aretas ascent Bedouin Beni-Israel Bible book of Job breadth Burckhardt camels camp character chief cliffs Dead Sea descendants desolation dwell dwelt east eastern desert Edom Edomites Egypt Egyptian Elath encampment Esau excavations existence Ezion-geber Fellahîn Gulf habits Hebrew Herod Himyarite honour Horeb Horites hundred feet Idumæa inhabitants inscriptions Irby and Mangles Ishmael Israel Israelites Jebel Jews Joktan Jordan Judah Kaaba king Lord miles Mohammedan Moses Mount Hor Mount Seir mountains Musa Nabatheans nations neighbouring pass peninsula Petra piastres plain portion possession present probably prophecy prophet Red Sea region rendered Robinson rock Roman ruins sandstone says Dr scene Scripture sepulchres sheikh Shobek side Sinai spot stones summit tain temple tent thee thou thousand tion tombs travellers tribes unto valley Wady Mûsa whole wild wilderness Wilson words Yemen
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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.