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 : Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Volume 2William W. Woodward, 1807 - Bible |
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... age and period of their empire , invio- lably consecrated to heaven , the first - fruits of their oil , their wine ... ages . During that festi- val , consecrated grass was carried about , in which the kernels of olives were wrapped up ...
... age and period of their empire , invio- lably consecrated to heaven , the first - fruits of their oil , their wine ... ages . During that festi- val , consecrated grass was carried about , in which the kernels of olives were wrapped up ...
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... ages . Their conjecture is not improbable , who think the fable of Niobe was derived hence : who , the poets feign , was turned into a stone upon her excessive grief for the death of her children . PATRICK , in loa . No. 615.-xx. 12 ...
... ages . Their conjecture is not improbable , who think the fable of Niobe was derived hence : who , the poets feign , was turned into a stone upon her excessive grief for the death of her children . PATRICK , in loa . No. 615.-xx. 12 ...
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... his servant , whom he employed to search out a wife for his son Isaac , were jewels of silver , and jewels of gold , exclusive of raiment , which probably was very rich and valuable for the age in which Abraham lived . GENESIS . 11.
... his servant , whom he employed to search out a wife for his son Isaac , were jewels of silver , and jewels of gold , exclusive of raiment , which probably was very rich and valuable for the age in which Abraham lived . GENESIS . 11.
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... age in which Abraham lived . Rich and splendid apparel , especially such as was adorned with gold , was very general in the eastern nations , from the earliest ages : and as the fashions and customs of the Ori- entals are not subject to ...
... age in which Abraham lived . Rich and splendid apparel , especially such as was adorned with gold , was very general in the eastern nations , from the earliest ages : and as the fashions and customs of the Ori- entals are not subject to ...
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... ages of the Patriarchs . GILLINGWATER M. S. And they blessed Rebekah . ] used both by the Jews , That of the Jews was in this form . No. 626. - xxiv . 60 . Nuptial benedictions were Greeks , and Romans . " Blessed be thou , O Lord , who ...
... ages of the Patriarchs . GILLINGWATER M. S. And they blessed Rebekah . ] used both by the Jews , That of the Jews was in this form . No. 626. - xxiv . 60 . Nuptial benedictions were Greeks , and Romans . " Blessed be thou , O Lord , who ...
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Page 214 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Page 304 - Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
Page 209 - Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Page 387 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Page 31 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Page 388 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page 304 - The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Page 137 - Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale : for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
Page 11 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Page 327 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.