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Alexandria ancient Arab arrived baksheesh Bedouins Bethlehem Beyrout built Cairo called cave Christians Church colour convent David Dead Sea desert distance donkeys doubt dragoman East Egypt English European eyes feet Galilee gardens gate Gennesaret give Gospel Greek hand Haram Hebrew Hhannah hills Hinnom Holy Land Holy Sepulchre horses houses imagination inhabitants Jaffa Jericho Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews John Jordan Josephus journey Judæa Kings lake Latin look Luke Mahometan Matt memory mosque moukres Mount of Olives Mount Sion mountain Mussulmans Nablous Nazareth oneself pacha Palestine pass passage pilgrims plain Pool Psalm pyramids rest road rock round ruins sacred Samaria Samaritans seems seen Shechem shew shore side Sidon sight Sion Solomon Song of Solomon sort stones streets summit Syria Temple tents Tiberias tomb town travellers trees Tyre valley village walk wall whole wish women words
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Page 373 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Page 383 - David will I lay upon his shoulder ; so he shall open, and none shall shut ; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Page 161 - I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture.
Page 249 - The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 285 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, With pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, With all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon.
Page 115 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 54 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
Page 357 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 334 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 225 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.