Oriental customs: or, An illustration of the Sacred scriptures by an explanatory application of the customs and manners of the Eastern nations, Τόμος 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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Σελίδα 59
... refers to a superstitious custom amongst the Gentiles , in their mourning for the dead . They cut off their hair , and that round about ; and threw it into the sepulchre with the bodies of their relations and friends ; and sometimes ...
... refers to a superstitious custom amongst the Gentiles , in their mourning for the dead . They cut off their hair , and that round about ; and threw it into the sepulchre with the bodies of their relations and friends ; and sometimes ...
Σελίδα 83
... refers this to the river Belus , which ran through the tribe of Zabulon , and which , according to Strabo , Pliny , and Tacitus , was remarkable for furnishing the sand of which they anciently made glass . But it seems much more natural ...
... refers this to the river Belus , which ran through the tribe of Zabulon , and which , according to Strabo , Pliny , and Tacitus , was remarkable for furnishing the sand of which they anciently made glass . But it seems much more natural ...
Σελίδα 101
... refers to tents , and intimates that the day was so far advanced as to make it proper to pitch a tent , or to halt for the night . In the latter part of the afternoon , eastern travellers begin to look out for a proper place in which to ...
... refers to tents , and intimates that the day was so far advanced as to make it proper to pitch a tent , or to halt for the night . In the latter part of the afternoon , eastern travellers begin to look out for a proper place in which to ...
Σελίδα 148
... refer to his natural mother , but that it is a title of honour and dignity , enjoyed by one of the royal family , denoting her to be the first in rank . This idea appears well founded from the following extracts . " The oloo kani is not ...
... refer to his natural mother , but that it is a title of honour and dignity , enjoyed by one of the royal family , denoting her to be the first in rank . This idea appears well founded from the following extracts . " The oloo kani is not ...
Σελίδα 189
... refers to the Idumean women , who , like other heathens , when their gods did not please them , or they could not ob- tain of them what they desired , would reproach and cast them away , and throw them into the fire , or the water , as ...
... refers to the Idumean women , who , like other heathens , when their gods did not please them , or they could not ob- tain of them what they desired , would reproach and cast them away , and throw them into the fire , or the water , as ...
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Σελίδα 211 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red ; it is full of mixture ; and he poureth out of the same : but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Σελίδα 389 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Σελίδα 118 - And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Σελίδα 250 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Σελίδα 390 - 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.
Σελίδα 8 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Σελίδα 143 - And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem, Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
Σελίδα 139 - 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.
Σελίδα 329 - 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.
Σελίδα 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?