Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations and Especially the Jews, Therein Alluded To. Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Volumen1C. Whittingham and sold by Williams and Smith, 1807 |
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... death , and , in the struggle , to have been brought upon one knee ; to have bruised the head of the great serpent with his mace ; and in his final engagement with that monster to have beat him to the earth , and slain him . This ...
... death , and , in the struggle , to have been brought upon one knee ; to have bruised the head of the great serpent with his mace ; and in his final engagement with that monster to have beat him to the earth , and slain him . This ...
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... death of the last male child among them . " See also Gen. xxvi . 28 , 29 . No. 12. - xxii . 3. Saddled his ass . ] There is no ground for supposing that the ancient eastern saddles were like our modern ones . Such were not known to the ...
... death of the last male child among them . " See also Gen. xxvi . 28 , 29 . No. 12. - xxii . 3. Saddled his ass . ] There is no ground for supposing that the ancient eastern saddles were like our modern ones . Such were not known to the ...
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... death , and frightful , for their mourning is right down despair , and an image of hell . I was lodged , in the year 1676 , at Ispahan , near the royal square ; the mistress of the next house to mine died at that time ; the moment she ...
... death , and frightful , for their mourning is right down despair , and an image of hell . I was lodged , in the year 1676 , at Ispahan , near the royal square ; the mistress of the next house to mine died at that time ; the moment she ...
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... death was a most grievous and terrible infliction . When the offender came within four cubits of the place of execution , he was stript naked , only leaving a covering before , and his hands being bound , he was led up to the fatal ...
... death was a most grievous and terrible infliction . When the offender came within four cubits of the place of execution , he was stript naked , only leaving a covering before , and his hands being bound , he was led up to the fatal ...
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... death of Saul , we are informed that they fastened his body to the wall of Beth - shan . Capital offences were sometimes punished by throwing the criminal upon hooks that were fixed in the wall below , where frequently they hung in the ...
... death of Saul , we are informed that they fastened his body to the wall of Beth - shan . Capital offences were sometimes punished by throwing the criminal upon hooks that were fixed in the wall below , where frequently they hung in the ...
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Página 311 - And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Página 66 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Página 243 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed ; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Página 376 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Página 286 - And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Página 310 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Página 222 - This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it ; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
Página 141 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened. And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low...
Página 398 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads ; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Página 297 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.