Observations and Inquiries Relating to Various Parts of Ancient History: Containing Dissertations on the Wind Euroclydon, and on the Island Melite, Together with an Account of Egypt in Its Most Early State, and of the Shepherd Kings. The Whole Calculated to Throw Light on the History of that Ancient Kingdom, as Well as on the Histories of the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Babylonians, Edomites, and Other Nations |
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Page 221 - WHO is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Page 191 - Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land ? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
Page 192 - Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Page 85 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Page 282 - And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan : and the land was polluted with blood.
Page 238 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Page 182 - And they brought their cattle unto Joseph : and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses : and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
Page 187 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 155 - 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...
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| Title | Observations and Inquiries Relating to Various Parts of Ancient History: Containing Dissertations on the Wind Euroclydon, and on the Island Melite, Together with an Account of Egypt in Its Most Early State, and of the Shepherd Kings. The Whole Calculated to Throw Light on the History of that ... Literature of theology and church history: A basic library of British theological studies |
| Author | Jacob Bryant |
| Publisher | J. Archdeacon, 1767 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 324 pages |
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