Bible Illustrations: A Description of Manners and Customs Peculiar to the East, Especially Explanatory of the Holy Scriptures |
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... man was commanded to return the garment he had borrowed before night , Exod . xxii . 26 . But to return to the structure of buildings . Some houses mentioned in Scripture seem to " In have been of a very peculiar construction ; HOUSES . 15.
... man was commanded to return the garment he had borrowed before night , Exod . xxii . 26 . But to return to the structure of buildings . Some houses mentioned in Scripture seem to " In have been of a very peculiar construction ; HOUSES . 15.
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... mention now . But the bricks in Egypt were somewhat different from ours . A quantity of straw was usually mingled with the clay . Do you recollect the command which Pha- raoh gave to the task - masters whom he set over the children of ...
... mention now . But the bricks in Egypt were somewhat different from ours . A quantity of straw was usually mingled with the clay . Do you recollect the command which Pha- raoh gave to the task - masters whom he set over the children of ...
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... mentioned in the Odyssey . Homer says , " By God the stranger and the poor are sent , And what to those we give , to Him is lent ; Then food supply , and bathe his fainting limbs , Where waving shades obscure the mazy streams . Your ...
... mentioned in the Odyssey . Homer says , " By God the stranger and the poor are sent , And what to those we give , to Him is lent ; Then food supply , and bathe his fainting limbs , Where waving shades obscure the mazy streams . Your ...
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... mention acts of homage , which are not common among us . True , Harry ; yet they are still common in the east though , I think , their manners in this respect are not to be commended . Such humiliation as is there required by the great ...
... mention acts of homage , which are not common among us . True , Harry ; yet they are still common in the east though , I think , their manners in this respect are not to be commended . Such humiliation as is there required by the great ...
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... mention some of the instances in the Scripture which show the manner of the eastern homage ? There are many , Harry . When Joseph's brethren came before him , " they bowed down themselves with their faces to the earth . " When a servant ...
... mention some of the instances in the Scripture which show the manner of the eastern homage ? There are many , Harry . When Joseph's brethren came before him , " they bowed down themselves with their faces to the earth . " When a servant ...
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Page 164 - Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Page 212 - And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Page 146 - Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom ? 11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off?
Page 101 - The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
Page 91 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 217 - I am the LORD'S"; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Page 141 - Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Page 101 - Thou gavest me no kiss : but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
Page 208 - And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.