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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... reaching to a depth of 38 meters , cisterns hewn from rock in every home and edifice ; fifteen pools in Jerusalem's ... reached a height of 50 meters . Along with the history of the city , from the Canaanite period to modern times - and ...
... reaching to a depth of 38 meters , cisterns hewn from rock in every home and edifice ; fifteen pools in Jerusalem's ... reached a height of 50 meters . Along with the history of the city , from the Canaanite period to modern times - and ...
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... reached Shechem , access was easy to both the Sea Road , running along the Shechem Valley in the west , and to the King's Road leading from Egypt , through Eilat and the mountains of Trans- jordan- the mountains of Edom , Moab and Ammon ...
... reached Shechem , access was easy to both the Sea Road , running along the Shechem Valley in the west , and to the King's Road leading from Egypt , through Eilat and the mountains of Trans- jordan- the mountains of Edom , Moab and Ammon ...
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... reached Jerusalem . Masada , in the Judean Desert , was the refuge of the Zealots during the Roman Revolt , and served as the base for their sorties to aid Jerusalem , then under siege . The sects in the Judean Desert found peace and ...
... reached Jerusalem . Masada , in the Judean Desert , was the refuge of the Zealots during the Roman Revolt , and served as the base for their sorties to aid Jerusalem , then under siege . The sects in the Judean Desert found peace and ...
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... reached the city through the passes in the Shephelah foothills . During the 1948 War of Independence , Jerusalem was truly freed only after the liberation of the Shephelah hills . The Jerusalem Corridor and the Shephelah were later ...
... reached the city through the passes in the Shephelah foothills . During the 1948 War of Independence , Jerusalem was truly freed only after the liberation of the Shephelah hills . The Jerusalem Corridor and the Shephelah were later ...
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... reached its peak during the Byzantine period , when the Stone of Foundation , the site of the Holy of Holies mentioned in the Bible - or the Rock of the Temple Mount , as it was called in the Moslem period - was covered with refuse ...
... reached its peak during the Byzantine period , when the Stone of Foundation , the site of the Holy of Holies mentioned in the Bible - or the Rock of the Temple Mount , as it was called in the Moslem period - was covered with refuse ...
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.