Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations and Especially the Jews Therein Alluded to : Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Bind 2William W. Woodward, 1807 |
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Side 59
... refers to a superstitious custom amongst the Gentiles , in their mourning for the dead . They cut off their hair , and that round about ; and threw it into the sepulchre with the bodies of their relations and friends ; and sometimes ...
... refers to a superstitious custom amongst the Gentiles , in their mourning for the dead . They cut off their hair , and that round about ; and threw it into the sepulchre with the bodies of their relations and friends ; and sometimes ...
Side 83
... refers this to the river Belus , which ran through the tribe of Zabulon , and which , according to Strabo , Pliny , and Tacitus , was remarkable for furnishing the sand of which they anciently made glass . But it seems much more natural ...
... refers this to the river Belus , which ran through the tribe of Zabulon , and which , according to Strabo , Pliny , and Tacitus , was remarkable for furnishing the sand of which they anciently made glass . But it seems much more natural ...
Side 101
... refers to tents , and intimates that the day was so far advanced as to make it proper to pitch a tent , or to halt for the night . In the latter part of the afternoon , eastern travellers begin to look out for a proper place in which to ...
... refers to tents , and intimates that the day was so far advanced as to make it proper to pitch a tent , or to halt for the night . In the latter part of the afternoon , eastern travellers begin to look out for a proper place in which to ...
Side 148
... refer to his natural mother , but that it is a title of honour and dignity , enjoyed by one of the royal family , denoting her to be the first in rank . This idea appears well founded from the following extracts . " The oloo kani is not ...
... refer to his natural mother , but that it is a title of honour and dignity , enjoyed by one of the royal family , denoting her to be the first in rank . This idea appears well founded from the following extracts . " The oloo kani is not ...
Side 189
... refers to the Idumean women , who , like other heathens , when their gods did not please them , or they could not ob- tain of them what they desired , would reproach and cast them away , and throw them into the fire , or the water , as ...
... refers to the Idumean women , who , like other heathens , when their gods did not please them , or they could not ob- tain of them what they desired , would reproach and cast them away , and throw them into the fire , or the water , as ...
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Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Bind 2 Samuel Burder Ingen forhåndsvisning - 1807 |
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Side 29 - I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
Side 5 - And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
Side 250 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Side 339 - And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Side 390 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Side 306 - The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Side 18 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp ? 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
Side 8 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Side 11 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Side 377 - And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.