The Geography of Bible LandsAbingdon Press, 1921 - 242 páginas |
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... fruit stands ? Or are you like the woman who , when told by a friend that he was about to visit the Holy Land and hoped to see Jerusalem , Bethlehem , Galilee , and other places described in the Bible , said that she knew all those ...
... fruit stands ? Or are you like the woman who , when told by a friend that he was about to visit the Holy Land and hoped to see Jerusalem , Bethlehem , Galilee , and other places described in the Bible , said that she knew all those ...
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... fruits , watermelons , rice , and sugar cane , thus making life more pleasant , as most of the food was in those days coarse and uninviting . A MODERN VIEW OF THE ANCIENT WORLD We cannot finish our journey without a fleeting backward ...
... fruits , watermelons , rice , and sugar cane , thus making life more pleasant , as most of the food was in those days coarse and uninviting . A MODERN VIEW OF THE ANCIENT WORLD We cannot finish our journey without a fleeting backward ...
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... fruit crop is profit . Date culture leads all other kinds of farming in the amount of food produced in a given area . Pound for pound the date contains as much nourishment as bread . Wheat lands are ex- hausted by a continuous crop in ...
... fruit crop is profit . Date culture leads all other kinds of farming in the amount of food produced in a given area . Pound for pound the date contains as much nourishment as bread . Wheat lands are ex- hausted by a continuous crop in ...
Página 50
... packed in skins or baskets . The pickers handle the fruit that is to be shipped more carefully . In some parts of the desert little ratlike animals live in the tops of the trees and fatten on the dates . 50 THE GEOGRAPHY OF BIBLE LANDS.
... packed in skins or baskets . The pickers handle the fruit that is to be shipped more carefully . In some parts of the desert little ratlike animals live in the tops of the trees and fatten on the dates . 50 THE GEOGRAPHY OF BIBLE LANDS.
Página 51
... fruit is repacked , often in gay cartons with pictures of the desert on them . From Bagdad , the dates are shipped in skins to Turkey and Egypt . Home uses of the fruit . When first picked , date honey drips from the bunches of fruit ...
... fruit is repacked , often in gay cartons with pictures of the desert on them . From Bagdad , the dates are shipped in skins to Turkey and Egypt . Home uses of the fruit . When first picked , date honey drips from the bunches of fruit ...
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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.