Palestine and Syria, with the Chief Routes Through Mesopotamia and Babylonia: Handbook for TravellersBaedeker, 1906 - 436 pagina's |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 234 - 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.
Pagina 73 - AND when He was come near, He beheld the city and wept over it.
Pagina 309 - Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
Pagina lxviii - I testify there is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is the prophet of Allah!
Pagina lxv - This is my Lord. But when it set, he said: I love not things that set. And when he saw the moon uprising, he exclaimed: This is my Lord.
Pagina lxviii - Guide us in the right way, The way of those to whom Thou hast been gracious, Not of those with whom Thou art wroth, nor of the erring.
Pagina 352 - That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.
Pagina 239 - Christi (Table of Christ), on the W. side of the town ; the present chapel was erected in 1861 and belongs to the Latins. The table is a block of hard chalk, llJ/2 ft.
Pagina lxvii - Asrafil ; the first of these blasts will kill every living being ; a second •will awaken the dead. Then follows the Judgment; the righteous cross to Paradise by a bridge of a hair's breadth, while the wicked fall from the bridge into the abyss of hell (p.
Pagina 210 - Lord which he had built before the vestibule, as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts - the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tabernacles.