The Plants of the Bible. Trees and Shrubs. [With Plates.]T. Nelson & Sons, 1857 - 54 pages |
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Acacia Acacia Seyal alludes almond almond-tree aloes Arabic aspen Bible black mulberry botanists boughs box-tree branches brier called cedar CEDAR-TREE OF LEBANON Chron cinnamon class Monoecia common in Palestine cultivated desert Deut Egypt Eshel Exod Ezek Ezekiel figs fir-tree flowers fragrant fruit garden grapes Greece Greek grow Hebrew Hebrew name Hebrew word Hence husks hyssop Isaiah Israel Israelites Jerusalem Joel Juglans regia Kings laurel leaves Linnean system Lord Luke mentioned Morus nigra Mourea mulberry-tree mustard mustard plant myrrh myrtle native natural order noticed Numb nuts occurs olive olive-tree order Monogynia Palestine palm-trees passages Pistacia Plane-tree plant Platanus orientalis pomegranates poplar present day Quercus referred Royle says Santalum album Scripture seed SHITTAH-TREE Shittim Solomon Song of Sol species Styrax suborder SYCAMINE-TREE sycomore Syria tabernacle TEIL-TREE Terebinth Terebinth-tree thou translated tree belongs valley viii vine Vitis vinifera WALNUT-TREE willows wood xliv xvii xxvii
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Page 38 - And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country ; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat : and no man gave unto him.
Page 26 - ... When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 33 - And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea ; and it should obey you.
Page 33 - And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Page 30 - God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive, and honey...
Page 26 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 22 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 37 - The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind ; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Page 46 - I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground : I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
Page 13 - Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed ? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high ? even against the Holy One of Israel.