The Biblical Geography of Central Asia: With a General Introduction to the Study of Sacred Geography, Including the Antediluvian Period, Volumen1Thomas Clark, 1836 - 336 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
Abulfeda according ancient antiquity appears Arabia Arabic Ararat Armenia Asia Assyria Babel Babylon Babylonia Bagdad bank Bibl Bochart Book bricks building called Caspian Caucasus Chaldæans Chaldee chap Comp conjecture Ctesias Cyrus Damascus Darius denotes district earth east eastern Ecbatana Edit Egypt Elam Elymais empire Esth Esther Euphrates Ezra feet formed geographical Gesenius Greeks Hebrew Heeren Herodotus Hist inhabitants Irak Isaiah J. D. Michaelis Jerusalem Jews Josephus journey Ker Porter king land Lebanon likewise Magog Medes Media mentioned Mesopotamia Michaelis miles Mingrelia Moses of Chorene Mount mountain Nimrod Nineveh palace Persian plain prince probably prophet province Ptolemy reign river Romans Rosenmüller royal ruins says seqq Shinar side signifies snow stone Strabo summit Susa Syria temple Tigris tion tomb tower town tradition translation Travels tribes viii wall word writers Xerxes καὶ
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Página 221 - Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail : that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
Página 73 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Página 184 - And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah...
Página 117 - When lo! we reach'd old Ocean's utmost bounds, Where rocks control his waves with ever-during mounds. "There in a lonely land, and gloomy cells, The dusky nation of Cimmeria dwells; The sun ne'er views the uncomfortable seats, When radiant he advances, or retreats: Unhappy race! whom endless night invades, Clouds the dull air, and wraps them round in shades.
Página 171 - Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces ; And they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb ; Their eye shall not spare children. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Página 215 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Página 5 - It is situated on a large plain, and is a perfect square : each side by every approach is, in length, one hundred and twenty furlongs; the space, therefore, occupied by the whole is four hundred and eighty furlongs. So extensive is the ground which Babylon occupies ; its internal beauty and magnificence exceed whatever has come within my knowledge.
Página 137 - I stood, it appeared as if the hugest mountains of the world had been piled upon each other to form this one sublime immensity of earth, and rock, and snow. The icy peaks of its double heads rose majestically into the clear and cloudless heavens ; the sun blazed bright upon them, and the reflection sent forth a dazzling radiance equal to other suns.
Página 20 - The cement which connects the bricks is so hard that it was impossible to chip the smallest piece ; and for this reason none of the inscriptions can be copied, as they are always on the lower surface of the bricks. It is rent from the top nearly half way to the bottom ; and at its foot...
Página 20 - ... thirty-five. Looking at it from the west, the entire mass rises at once from the plain in one stupendous, though irregular pyramidal hill. It is composed of fine bricks, kiln-baked. From the western side, two of its stories may be distinctly seen ; the first is about sixty feet high, cloven in the middle by deep ravines. The tower-like looking ruin on the summit is...