The Popular Cyclopadia of Biblical Literature: Condensed from the Larger WorkGould and Lincoln, 1854 - 800 pages |
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... kind have , to too great an extent , merely retailed the conjectures of past ages , and perpetuated their blunders Fin sacred geography . No one who has not travelled in the East , and consulted thein on the spot , has any idea of the ...
... kind have , to too great an extent , merely retailed the conjectures of past ages , and perpetuated their blunders Fin sacred geography . No one who has not travelled in the East , and consulted thein on the spot , has any idea of the ...
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... kind that has ever been published in this country , inasmuch as it embodies , besides all that was valuable in the older Cyclopædies , the most recent researches in biblical literature of the ablest scholars , both in the old world and ...
... kind that has ever been published in this country , inasmuch as it embodies , besides all that was valuable in the older Cyclopædies , the most recent researches in biblical literature of the ablest scholars , both in the old world and ...
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... kind of reddish tint , as a beautiful human com- plexion ( Lam . iv . 7 ) ; but its various derivatives are applied to different objects of a red or brown hue , or approaching to such . The word Adam , therefore , is an appellative noun ...
... kind of reddish tint , as a beautiful human com- plexion ( Lam . iv . 7 ) ; but its various derivatives are applied to different objects of a red or brown hue , or approaching to such . The word Adam , therefore , is an appellative noun ...
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... kind- ness , their attachment is most ardent and faithful . Thus had man the shadow of the divine do- minion and authority over the inferior creation . The attribute of power was also given to him , in his being made able to convert the ...
... kind- ness , their attachment is most ardent and faithful . Thus had man the shadow of the divine do- minion and authority over the inferior creation . The attribute of power was also given to him , in his being made able to convert the ...
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... kind or class of opera- tions or processes ; implying that , in the same or similar manner , the first man was led to under- stand something of the qualities and relations of vegetables , earthy matters , the visible heavens , and the ...
... kind or class of opera- tions or processes ; implying that , in the same or similar manner , the first man was led to under- stand something of the qualities and relations of vegetables , earthy matters , the visible heavens , and the ...
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Abimelech Abraham Acts Ahaz altar Ammonites Amorites ancient animals Apostle appears Arabia Arabs Asia Assyria Babylon called Canaan Christ Christian Chron church comp Damascus David death denote Deut divine East Edom Egypt Egyptian epistle Euphrates Exod Ezek Ezra father favour Greek Hebrew Hebron high-priest holy inhabitants Israel Israelites Jehovah Jeroboam Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews Joab Jordan Josephus Josh Judæa Judah Judg king land latter Lord Luke Matt means ment mentioned Meroë Moses mountains nations natural occurs Palestine passages Paul period Persian persons Philistines possession present priests probably prophet reign rendered Roman sacred Scripture seems Solomon species stone supposed Syria temple Testament thou tion town tree tribe tribe of Judah viii word worship writers xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxvii
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Page 304 - And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed, and went behind them ; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them : And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel ; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these : so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 372 - And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Page 304 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page 96 - ... of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 228 - In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Page 446 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 26 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Page 280 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 326 - And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you...
Page 284 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening ; and he drank of the brook.