Manners and Customs Noticed in Various Passages of Holy Scripture: Illustrated by Extracts from the Works of TravellersSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; sold at the Depository, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields; and 4, Royal Exchange; and by all booksellers, 1845 - Bible - 452 pages |
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... beautiful object . " Dr. Shaw's description of these tents is very clear and concise . " Nothing , certainly , can afford a more delight- ful prospect , ( he observes , ) than a large extensive plain , with those moveable habitations ...
... beautiful object . " Dr. Shaw's description of these tents is very clear and concise . " Nothing , certainly , can afford a more delight- ful prospect , ( he observes , ) than a large extensive plain , with those moveable habitations ...
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... beautiful emblem of the shortness and uncertainty of life . Thus , Hezekiah , when stricken with dangerous sickness , complains that his age is removed , like a shepherd's tent . * " There is something very me- * In the well - watered ...
... beautiful emblem of the shortness and uncertainty of life . Thus , Hezekiah , when stricken with dangerous sickness , complains that his age is removed , like a shepherd's tent . * " There is something very me- * In the well - watered ...
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... beautiful language : " Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation — a tabernacle that shall not be taken down ; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed , neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken ; " while the ...
... beautiful language : " Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation — a tabernacle that shall not be taken down ; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed , neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken ; " while the ...
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... beautiful . Indigo and cochineal , which they purchase at Aleppo , give them their blue and red dyes , but the ingredients of all the others , especially of a brilliant green , are herbs which they gather in the mountains of Armenia ...
... beautiful . Indigo and cochineal , which they purchase at Aleppo , give them their blue and red dyes , but the ingredients of all the others , especially of a brilliant green , are herbs which they gather in the mountains of Armenia ...
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... beautiful expression of spreading out the heavens like a curtain . * When any of these cities is built upon level ground , one may pass along the tops of the houses from one end of it to the other , without coming down into the street ...
... beautiful expression of spreading out the heavens like a curtain . * When any of these cities is built upon level ground , one may pass along the tops of the houses from one end of it to the other , without coming down into the street ...
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ancient Arab Arab Tribes Asia Minor Barbary beautiful Bedouins behold bread bride bridegroom brought butter cakes called CALMET camels caravanserai cave chamber children of Israel cloth colours court covered custom Damascus desert door dress dwell East Eastern Egypt enter feast feet flocks friends garments gate gathered GENESIS girdle give goats gold guests hair hand harem HARMER'S Observations hath head Holy ISAIAH Israelites Jerusalem Jesus Jews JOSEPHUS Journey Judea Kamr kind king linen Lord LUKE manner marriage MATT milk Mission of Enquiry Modern Egyptians mountains Nestorians night ornaments pass passage passover Persia persons Pharisees piece present PSALM rock roof round saith Scripture sepulchres servant side Sisera skin stone street Syria tabernacle temple tent thee thou shalt tombs took Travels unto usually wall wash wear wife woman women writes xviii
Popular passages
Page 283 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
Page 107 - And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
Page 50 - And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem ; and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
Page 205 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room...
Page 439 - Then said he to another, And how much owest thou ? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
Page 205 - A certain man made a great supper, and bade many : and sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, ' Come ; for all things are now ready.' And they all with one consent began to make excuse.
Page 428 - For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me, and I say to this man, go, and he goeth ; and to another, come, and he cometh ; and to my servant do this, and he doeth it.
Page 11 - And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Page 205 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 11 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.