Peter Parley's Bible Gazetteer: Containing Illustrations of Bible GeographyB.B. Munsey, 1840 - Всего страниц: 192 |
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Abraham afterwards Ahab ancient apostle Asher Asia Minor Babylon Benjamin Bible Canaan capital Christ Christian Chron church city of Judah daughter David Dead sea death disciple east eastern Edom Egypt Ephraim Euphrates father feet forty four Gilead Hebron Herod high-priest hill holy hundred Idumea inhabitants Israelites Issachar Jacob Jehoshaphat Jericho Jerusalem Jewish Jews Josh Joshua Judea judge king of Israel king of Judah kingdom land Manasseh Mediterranean sea mentioned Midian miles north miles south miles south-west Moab Moses Mount mountains Naphtali nearly north-west Palestine Paul Persia Philistines plain priests probably prophet province Red sea reign river Jordan Roman Samaria Saul Savior sea of Galilee Shechem Simeon situated slain Solomon sometimes called sons stone stood supposed Syria tain temple ther thirty thousand tion town tree tribe tribe of Judah tribe of Manasseh twelve twenty valley village walls wife wilderness worship Zebulon
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Стр. 38 - It was impossible to behold this scene, and not to be reminded how exactly the predictions of Isaiah and Jeremiah have been fulfilled, even in the appearance Babylon was doomed to present: that she should never be inhabited ; that the Arabian should not pitch his tent there ; that she should become heaps; that her cities should be a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness.
Стр. 109 - ... but wretchedness to view, and even these are frequently shut, from apprehension of the passage of a cadi. Not a creature is to be seen in the streets...
Стр. 108 - The houses of Jerusalem are heavy square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows : they have flat terraces or domes on the top, and look like prisons or sepulchres. The whole would appear to the eye one uninterrupted level, did not the steeples of the churches, the minarets of the mosques, the summits of a few cypresses, and the clumps of nopals, break the uniformity of the plan. On beholding these stone buildings, encompassed by a stony country, you are ready to inquire if they are not the...
Стр. 164 - Though the city be desolate, the monuments of its opulence and power are durable. These are, — a channel on each side of the river for conveying the water to the city, — numerous tombs, — above two hundred and fifty sepulchres, or excavations, — many mausoleums, one, in particular, of colossal dimensions, in perfect preservation, and a work of immense...
Стр. 109 - ... extraordinary desolation, you must pause a moment to contemplate two circumstances still more extraordinary. Among the ruins of Jerusalem, two classes of independent people find in their religion sufficient fortitude to enable them to surmount such complicated horrors and wretchedness.
Стр. 99 - The first-mentioned of these is a square mass of rock, hewn down into form, and isolated from the quarry out of which it is cut by a passage of twelve or fifteen feet wide on three of its sides ; the fourth or western front being open towards the valley and to Mount Moriah, the foot of which is only a few yards distant. This...
Стр. 109 - On the death of any member of this proscribed community, his companion goes at night and inters him by stealth in the valley of Jehoshaphat, in the shadow of Solomon's Temple. Enter the abodes of these people, you will find them...
Стр. 99 - In the immediate vicinity is the tomb of Jehoshaphat, — a cavern which is more commonly called the Grotto of the Disciples, from an idea that they went frequently thither to be taught by their Divine Master. The front of this excavation has two Doric pillars of small size, but of just proportions. In the interior are three chambers, all of them rude and irregular in their form, in one of which were several gravestones, removed, we may suppose, from the open ground for greater security.
Стр. 89 - Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel...
Стр. 108 - Bazars, roofed over, and fraught with infection, completely exclude the light from the desolate city. A few paltry shops expose nothing but wretchedness to view, and even these are frequently shut, from apprehension of the passage of a c-.-u 1 1.