Golden JerusalemJerusalem is a holy and magical city. It was the Golden Jerusalem of King David and the wise King Solomon, the Golden Jerusalem of Jesus and the cradle of Christianity, as well as Islam's third holiest site. |
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... Damascus Gate ..... 212 Zedekiah's Cave ( Royal Caves ) 217 Herod's Gate The Lions ' Gate ..... Pool of Bethesda and Church of St. Anne . . . . . .217 .219 .221 Temple of Healing 223. The Basins of the Pool of Bethesda 224. The ...
... Damascus Gate ..... 212 Zedekiah's Cave ( Royal Caves ) 217 Herod's Gate The Lions ' Gate ..... Pool of Bethesda and Church of St. Anne . . . . . .217 .219 .221 Temple of Healing 223. The Basins of the Pool of Bethesda 224. The ...
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... Damascus Gate Square Column Church of the Paralytic ( Church of the Nativity of St. Mary ) ) Valley of Jehoshaphat " Galle Church Sheep's Pools Jericho Gate Benjamin Gate Forum Church Pool of Israel Tomb of the Virgin Church of the Holy ...
... Damascus Gate Square Column Church of the Paralytic ( Church of the Nativity of St. Mary ) ) Valley of Jehoshaphat " Galle Church Sheep's Pools Jericho Gate Benjamin Gate Forum Church Pool of Israel Tomb of the Virgin Church of the Holy ...
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... Damascus , Baghdad , Cairo and Constantinople . Jerusalem is in fact sacred to three religions , but not equally so to all three . What the Land of Israel was to Judaism and Christianity , all Arabia was to Islam . Never was the entire ...
... Damascus , Baghdad , Cairo and Constantinople . Jerusalem is in fact sacred to three religions , but not equally so to all three . What the Land of Israel was to Judaism and Christianity , all Arabia was to Islam . Never was the entire ...
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... Damascus . Omar declared the Temple Mount to be a place of prayer , thus pleasing the Jews , who regarded this as foreshadowing their redemption . Omar asked the Jews : " Where would you wish to live in the city ? ' And they answered ...
... Damascus . Omar declared the Temple Mount to be a place of prayer , thus pleasing the Jews , who regarded this as foreshadowing their redemption . Omar asked the Jews : " Where would you wish to live in the city ? ' And they answered ...
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... Damascus , and the great " Umayyad Mosque " became holy to the Moslems . ' Abd al - Malik ( 685-705 ) built in Jerusa- lem the Dome of the Rock in 691-692 as a shrine and not as a mosque . However , since Mecca was distant from Syria ...
... Damascus , and the great " Umayyad Mosque " became holy to the Moslems . ' Abd al - Malik ( 685-705 ) built in Jerusa- lem the Dome of the Rock in 691-692 as a shrine and not as a mosque . However , since Mecca was distant from Syria ...
Contents
Chapter II | 57 |
Bethesda | 78 |
Chapter III | 89 |
Chapter IV | 167 |
Chapter V | 185 |
Chapter VI | 191 |
Chapter VII | 259 |
Chapter VIII | 279 |
Chapter IX | 319 |
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Page 122 - And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
Page 222 - In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water ; whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Page 89 - And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
Page 159 - 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 : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 158 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 124 - And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD. without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
Page 313 - And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in •the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
Page 10 - And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul...
Page 242 - As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you ; And ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.