The Popular Cyclopadia of Biblical Literature: Condensed from the Larger WorkGould and Lincoln, 1854 - 800 pages |
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... possessed ; and this work seemed to him just what he had been looking for in vain . Permit me to express the hope ... possession of all who are interested in the study of the Scriptures . The price at which you offer it is a trifle ...
... possessed ; and this work seemed to him just what he had been looking for in vain . Permit me to express the hope ... possession of all who are interested in the study of the Scriptures . The price at which you offer it is a trifle ...
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... possession of it . In the present volume an attempt has , therefore , been made to supply this want , by providing such a popular Abridgment of the Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature as may be suited to the use of the great body of the ...
... possession of it . In the present volume an attempt has , therefore , been made to supply this want , by providing such a popular Abridgment of the Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature as may be suited to the use of the great body of the ...
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... possession ) was so named to indicate both the joy of his mother and his right to the inheritance of the first - born : Abel received a name indi- cative of his weakness and poverty when com- pared with the supposed glory of his ...
... possession ) was so named to indicate both the joy of his mother and his right to the inheritance of the first - born : Abel received a name indi- cative of his weakness and poverty when com- pared with the supposed glory of his ...
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... possession of the province . After her death it fell to Augustus , who rented it out to one Zenodorus ; but as he ... possessions which went to his son Agrippa II . 1. ABIM'ELECH ( futher of the king , or perhaps royal father ) , the ...
... possession of the province . After her death it fell to Augustus , who rented it out to one Zenodorus ; but as he ... possessions which went to his son Agrippa II . 1. ABIM'ELECH ( futher of the king , or perhaps royal father ) , the ...
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... possession of the land in which he sojourned ( Gen. xv . ) . After ten years ' residence in Canaan ( B.C. 1913 ) , Sarai , being then 75 years old , and having long been accounted barren , chose to put hei own interpretation upon the ...
... possession of the land in which he sojourned ( Gen. xv . ) . After ten years ' residence in Canaan ( B.C. 1913 ) , Sarai , being then 75 years old , and having long been accounted barren , chose to put hei own interpretation upon 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.