A gazetteer of the Old and New Testaments: to which is added the natural history of the Bible, Volume 1Edinburgh Printing and Publishing Company, 1838 |
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... Baal - peor , by the allurements of the Moabitish and Midianitish women , for which 24,000 of them died in one day , Numb . xxv . 9 . St Paul says that 23,000 were visited with this severe mortality , 1 Cor . x . 8 ; but the other ...
... Baal - peor , by the allurements of the Moabitish and Midianitish women , for which 24,000 of them died in one day , Numb . xxv . 9 . St Paul says that 23,000 were visited with this severe mortality , 1 Cor . x . 8 ; but the other ...
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... Baal " cried aloud , and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets , till the blood gushed out upon them , " 1 Kings xviii . 28 ; Jer . xvi . 5 , 6 , 7. In the 56th Psalm there occurs the expression , " Put thou my tears ...
... Baal " cried aloud , and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets , till the blood gushed out upon them , " 1 Kings xviii . 28 ; Jer . xvi . 5 , 6 , 7. In the 56th Psalm there occurs the expression , " Put thou my tears ...
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... did eat , and bowed down to their gods , and Israel joined himself unto Baal - peor . " That this was a stratagem of Balaam , the result of mortified pride and disappointed avarice , while he 206 ASIA THE SCRIPTURE GAZETTEER .
... did eat , and bowed down to their gods , and Israel joined himself unto Baal - peor . " That this was a stratagem of Balaam , the result of mortified pride and disappointed avarice , while he 206 ASIA THE SCRIPTURE GAZETTEER .
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... Baal , which is sometimes called in Scripture the Valley of Lebanon , Josh . xi . 17. See BAAL , BETHEL , and LEBANON . AVEN , ON , BEтHSHEMESH , or HE- LIOPOLIS , a city of Egypt , translated He- liopolis in the Septuagint and Vulgate ...
... Baal , which is sometimes called in Scripture the Valley of Lebanon , Josh . xi . 17. See BAAL , BETHEL , and LEBANON . AVEN , ON , BEтHSHEMESH , or HE- LIOPOLIS , a city of Egypt , translated He- liopolis in the Septuagint and Vulgate ...
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... BAAL , BEL , or BOL , he that rules and subdues ; or , master , lord , or husband , a celebrated idol of antiquity , the name of which distinguished several cities , espe- cially those subsequently mentioned , either because this idol ...
... BAAL , BEL , or BOL , he that rules and subdues ; or , master , lord , or husband , a celebrated idol of antiquity , the name of which distinguished several cities , espe- cially those subsequently mentioned , either because this idol ...
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Page 301 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Page 505 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 422 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever : Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Page 196 - JOHN to the Seven Churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the Seven Spirits which are before his throne ; and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth.
Page 415 - 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.
Page 271 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 206 - Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly ; and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
Page 282 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 543 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Page 285 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.