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Page vii
... Cisterns 17 Pools 18. Aqueducts and Tunnels 20 The Forts of the Shephelah ( Low Land ) .. Jerusalem Over the Centuries ... Jerusalem in the Canaanite Period ( 3000-1200 B.C.E. ) 22. Jerusalem During the First Temple Period ( 1200-586 ...
... Cisterns 17 Pools 18. Aqueducts and Tunnels 20 The Forts of the Shephelah ( Low Land ) .. Jerusalem Over the Centuries ... Jerusalem in the Canaanite Period ( 3000-1200 B.C.E. ) 22. Jerusalem During the First Temple Period ( 1200-586 ...
Page ix
... Cisterns 135. Water for the Pilgrims 137⚫ Pools 137. The Series of Pools in the Cheesemongers ' Valley 139 Pools of the Second Temple Period 140. The Series of Pools in the Ben - Hinnom Valley 140. The Series of Pools at the Head of ...
... Cisterns 135. Water for the Pilgrims 137⚫ Pools 137. The Series of Pools in the Cheesemongers ' Valley 139 Pools of the Second Temple Period 140. The Series of Pools in the Ben - Hinnom Valley 140. The Series of Pools at the Head of ...
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... cisterns hewn from rock in every home and edifice ; fifteen pools in Jerusalem's numerous valleys ; and finally ; the longest - 68 km - and most sophisticated aqueduct found in the Middle East . The Israelites probably devised the ...
... cisterns hewn from rock in every home and edifice ; fifteen pools in Jerusalem's numerous valleys ; and finally ; the longest - 68 km - and most sophisticated aqueduct found in the Middle East . The Israelites probably devised the ...
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... Cistern 0 Ancient Roads of the Judean Desert exported , as was the pitch found there , while the medicinal hot springs were a popular attraction . The Judean Desert was divided into seven regions , from north to south : Beth - Aven ...
... Cistern 0 Ancient Roads of the Judean Desert exported , as was the pitch found there , while the medicinal hot springs were a popular attraction . The Judean Desert was divided into seven regions , from north to south : Beth - Aven ...
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... Cisterns Nevertheless a fountain or cistern , wherein is a gathering of water , shall be clean . Leviticus XI , 36 The Israelites , who settled in mountains poor in natural water sources , dug cisterns for their homes to provide water ...
... Cisterns Nevertheless a fountain or cistern , wherein is a gathering of water , shall be clean . Leviticus XI , 36 The Israelites , who settled in mountains poor in natural water sources , dug cisterns for their homes to provide water ...
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.