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alluded allusion almond Arabic barley Bashan Bible bitter botanists BOX-TREE branches bread Buxus called cedars Chron colour common coriander cotton cucumber cultivated cummin Deut dove's dung Eastern countries Egypt Ezek Ezekiel fig-tree figs fitches flax flowers fragrant frankincense fruit garden gourd grain grapes grass grows Hebrew Hebrew word hence herbs Holy Land Hosea hyssop India Isaiah Israel Israelites Kings leaves Lebanon leek Leguminosa lentiles lily linen Linn Lord Luke mandrakes Matt melon mentioned mulberry myrrh myrtle native natural order nettles nuts occurs odour oil-tree Old Testament olive olive-tree Palestine palm-trees passages perfume plane-trees plant belongs pomegranates poplar present day prophet reed referred resembles Royle says Scripture seeds SHITTAH-TREE Song of Solomon south of Europe species spikenard sub-order sweet sycomore Syria terebinth terebinth-tree thistles thorns thou translated tree Tristram unto valley viii vine wheat WILD GOURD willow wood xxiii xxvii
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Page 152 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 43 - Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Page 227 - Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Page 126 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk...
Page 218 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 129 - And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds...
Page 77 - For the LORD thy 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 162 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Page 67 - 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 82 - 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.