The Geography of Bible LandsAbingdon Press, 1921 - 242 páginas |
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... Romans . We shall spend a day in one of the schools , there to learn how these people trained their boys for soldiers and citi- zens . The records on monuments , cylinders , and buildings will tell us many things , among them how good ...
... Romans . We shall spend a day in one of the schools , there to learn how these people trained their boys for soldiers and citi- zens . The records on monuments , cylinders , and buildings will tell us many things , among them how good ...
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... Romans . We know , however , of the gifts to civilization that came into use through that country from the Mohammedan Arabs , or Moors . Among these gifts were the fibers , silk and cotton , as well as manufactures and inventions ...
... Romans . We know , however , of the gifts to civilization that came into use through that country from the Mohammedan Arabs , or Moors . Among these gifts were the fibers , silk and cotton , as well as manufactures and inventions ...
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... Roman ruins . Farther down the cliffs widen and we see the natives living in caves which they have cut out of the limestone . Myriads of wild fowls ducks , geese , cranes , herons , pelicans , storks , snipes and many other birds fly ...
... Roman ruins . Farther down the cliffs widen and we see the natives living in caves which they have cut out of the limestone . Myriads of wild fowls ducks , geese , cranes , herons , pelicans , storks , snipes and many other birds fly ...
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... Romans fought for possession of the trade routes . The Crusaders tried to take them from the Arabs , who controlled them in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . Where great armies marched . A military route in an- cient days , as now ...
... Romans fought for possession of the trade routes . The Crusaders tried to take them from the Arabs , who controlled them in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . Where great armies marched . A military route in an- cient days , as now ...
Página 85
... Maronites , Roman Catholics , and Jews , besides Yezidis , who practice a form of idol worship. A SYRIAN CARAVAN LED BY A SEVEN - YEAR - OLD BOY BEDOUIN LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS , EAST OF THE DEAD. SYRIA THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE 85.
... Maronites , Roman Catholics , and Jews , besides Yezidis , who practice a form of idol worship. A SYRIAN CARAVAN LED BY A SEVEN - YEAR - OLD BOY BEDOUIN LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS , EAST OF THE DEAD. SYRIA THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE 85.
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Página 101 - Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee : and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Página 101 - And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran ; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan ; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Página 64 - Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
Página 84 - And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Página 157 - And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones : there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
Página 117 - And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
Página 64 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 29 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 120 - Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
Página 84 - And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you : and my people shall never be ashamed.