Ruins of Sacred and Historic LandsThomas Nelson, 1850 - 392 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 12
... hundred feet must , if any traces of the town remain , be the most remarkable object among them . Pliny , seventy years after Strabo , mentions ' the Temple of Jupiter Belus , the inventor of astronomy , ' as still standing ; and all ...
... hundred feet must , if any traces of the town remain , be the most remarkable object among them . Pliny , seventy years after Strabo , mentions ' the Temple of Jupiter Belus , the inventor of astronomy , ' as still standing ; and all ...
الصفحة 30
... hundred and sixty - two yards . At the eastern side it is cloven by a deep furrow , and is not more than fifty or sixty feet high ; but at the western it rises in a conical figure to the ele- vation of one hundred and ninety - eight ...
... hundred and sixty - two yards . At the eastern side it is cloven by a deep furrow , and is not more than fifty or sixty feet high ; but at the western it rises in a conical figure to the ele- vation of one hundred and ninety - eight ...
الصفحة 31
vation of one hundred and ninety - eight feet , and on its summit is a solid pile of brick thirty - seven feet high by twenty - eight in breadth , diminishing in thickness to the top , which is broken and irregular , and rent by a large ...
vation of one hundred and ninety - eight feet , and on its summit is a solid pile of brick thirty - seven feet high by twenty - eight in breadth , diminishing in thickness to the top , which is broken and irregular , and rent by a large ...
الصفحة 33
... hundred years after the deluge ; but biblical critics are now generally agreed that the system of chronological interpretation which has been hitherto applied to the arrangement of sacred history is no longer tenable . It is generally ...
... hundred years after the deluge ; but biblical critics are now generally agreed that the system of chronological interpretation which has been hitherto applied to the arrangement of sacred history is no longer tenable . It is generally ...
الصفحة 37
... hundred brazen gates — and the adjoining artificial lake — all displayed many of the mightiest works of mortals concentrated in a single point . Yet , while in the plenitude of its power , and , according to the most accurate ...
... hundred brazen gates — and the adjoining artificial lake — all displayed many of the mightiest works of mortals concentrated in a single point . Yet , while in the plenitude of its power , and , according to the most accurate ...
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الصفحة 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
الصفحة 113 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
الصفحة 10 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
الصفحة 101 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth : for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads ; for your redemption draweth...
الصفحة 55 - Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
الصفحة 58 - So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
الصفحة 45 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem ; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
الصفحة 13 - He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
الصفحة 364 - And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and lineage of David) ; to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
الصفحة 40 - The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.