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 : Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent CriticsWhittingham, 1807 - 431 pages |
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... wall . Among them was the nakib ( the general , or rather master of the horse ) , Cheir Allah , with whom I had some acquaintance before . He immediately resigned his place to me , and applied himself to draw together stones into an ...
... wall . Among them was the nakib ( the general , or rather master of the horse ) , Cheir Allah , with whom I had some acquaintance before . He immediately resigned his place to me , and applied himself to draw together stones into an ...
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... wall unto them on their right hand and on their left . ] Diodorus Siculus relates that the Ichthyophagi , who lived near the Red Sea , had a tradition handed down to them through a long line of ancestors , that the whole bay was once ...
... wall unto them on their right hand and on their left . ] Diodorus Siculus relates that the Ichthyophagi , who lived near the Red Sea , had a tradition handed down to them through a long line of ancestors , that the whole bay was once ...
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... walls ; on the east side there is a window , by which those that were within drew up the pilgrims into the monastery , with a basket which they let down by a rope that runs in a pulley . " These walls , he observes in the next chapter ...
... walls ; on the east side there is a window , by which those that were within drew up the pilgrims into the monastery , with a basket which they let down by a rope that runs in a pulley . " These walls , he observes in the next chapter ...
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... wall of Beth - shan . Capital offences were sometimes punished by throwing the criminal upon hooks that were fixed in the wall below , where frequently they hung in the most exquisite agonies thirty or forty hours , before they expired ...
... wall of Beth - shan . Capital offences were sometimes punished by throwing the criminal upon hooks that were fixed in the wall below , where frequently they hung in the most exquisite agonies thirty or forty hours , before they expired ...
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... wall , ( i . e . from his attendants ) 2 Kings xx . 2 . that the fervency of his devotion might be . the less taken notice of and observed . The like is related of Ahab , 1 Kings xxi . 4. though probably he did thus , not upon a ...
... wall , ( i . e . from his attendants ) 2 Kings xx . 2 . that the fervency of his devotion might be . the less taken notice of and observed . The like is related of Ahab , 1 Kings xxi . 4. though probably he did thus , not upon a ...
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