The biblical keepsake: or, Landscape illustrations of the most remarkable places mentioned in the holy Scriptures, with descriptions by T.H. Horne |
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afterwards antient city antiquity appears Asia Minor beautiful building built called Carne's Letters cedars celebrated CHARLES BARRY church Clarke's Travels CLAUDIUS JAMES RICH Count Léon Damascus distance Drawn by J. D. Drawn by J. M. W. east edifice emperor Engraved erected feet Finden gates Greece Greeks Hardy's Notices height hill Holy Land houses hundred inhabitants Israel J. D. HARDING J. M. W. TURNER Jerusalem Jesus Christ Jews Josh Jowett's Christian king Laborde lake Lamartine's Pilgrimage Lebanon Luke magnificent marble Maundrell Maundrell's Travels Miletus modern MORIAH mosque Mount Lebanon MOUNT TABOR Mount Zion mountains Nazareth Nineveh Palestine PETRA plain prophecy prophet Puteoli Rae Wilson's Travels ravine Richardson's Travels rock Roman ruins Sardis SEA OF GALILEE SEPULCHRES Shechem side situated Sketch Smyrna splendour spot by CHARLES stands Stanfield stone streets summit Syria Tabor temple Tiberias tomb town trees Tripoli Turkish Turks Tyre valley walls
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Page 85 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust Him out of the city, and led Him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast Him down headlong.
Page 5 - Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Page 18 - The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Page 22 - And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
Page 154 - Remember therefore, how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Page 85 - And they rose up and put him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.
Page 74 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Page 153 - And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Page 21 - And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Page 22 - Thou shall die the death of them that are slain in the midst of the sea. The children of Israel also, and the children of Judah, have ye sold. I will return the recompense upon your own head.