The Geography of Bible LandsAbingdon Press, 1921 - 242 páginas |
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Página 31
... centuries made this region a belt of towns . The towns are surrounded by well - watered gardens , orchards , vineyards , and fields of wheat and barley . The annual rainfall of from ten to twenty inches is sufficient to supply herbage ...
... centuries made this region a belt of towns . The towns are surrounded by well - watered gardens , orchards , vineyards , and fields of wheat and barley . The annual rainfall of from ten to twenty inches is sufficient to supply herbage ...
Página 32
... centuries ago ? Would you not in this way get a clearer picture of the struggles of the people and the great men who led them in their development ? Then , too , you would see the geographic conditions that gave rise to these struggles ...
... centuries ago ? Would you not in this way get a clearer picture of the struggles of the people and the great men who led them in their development ? Then , too , you would see the geographic conditions that gave rise to these struggles ...
Página 53
... century the cotton of northern Mesopotamia commanded the market of the world . During our trip on the steppes we learned that the chief sources of wealth of the nomads were their flocks and herds . The Arab farmers also raise camels ...
... century the cotton of northern Mesopotamia commanded the market of the world . During our trip on the steppes we learned that the chief sources of wealth of the nomads were their flocks and herds . The Arab farmers also raise camels ...
Página 57
... centuries Babylon led the world in styles for dress , as Paris does to - day . A pe- culiar writing called the cuneiform script was used , and the extensive literature of Babylonia was read by great numbers of people all over western ...
... centuries Babylon led the world in styles for dress , as Paris does to - day . A pe- culiar writing called the cuneiform script was used , and the extensive literature of Babylonia was read by great numbers of people all over western ...
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... centuries been classed among the " seven wonders of the world . " There was a great Babylonian banking house , over seven hundred of whose contract tablets have been found buried twenty feet below the surface . The country had a letter ...
... centuries been classed among the " seven wonders of the world . " There was a great Babylonian banking house , over seven hundred of whose contract tablets have been found buried twenty feet below the surface . The country had a letter ...
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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.