148 results found.
... must have been a feature, unless he lived in some nearby village. Huts for those practicing incubation (sleeping in the sanctuary to obtain revelations through dreams) seem not to have been ...
https://bibleatlas.org/high_mountain.htm
... BJ, II, xiii, 7; . xiv, 4) . Terrible cruelties were practiced on the Jews under Felix and Florus. Here Vespasian was hailed emperor by his soldiers. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/caesarea_philippi.htm
... , lying on each side of the Jordan North of the Dead Sea, where for miles practically no vegetable life can exist. (2 ) The sterile plateau West of the steep cliffs ...
https://bibleatlas.org/jeshimon.htm
... was more than one place to which the Assyrians transported captives or exiles, and if their practice was to place them as far as they could from their native land, one would expect ...
https://bibleatlas.org/king's_highway.htm
... was more than one place to which the Assyrians transported captives or exiles, and if their practice was to place them as far as they could from their native land, one would expect ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kir.htm
... BJ, II, xiii, 7; . xiv, 4) . Terrible cruelties were practiced on the Jews under Felix and Florus. Here Vespasian was hailed emperor by his soldiers. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/caesarea.htm
... partly mountainous, whose western boundary, starting on the Northeast side of the Persian Gulf, practically followed the course of the lower Tigris. It was bounded on the North by Media, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/elam.htm
... again as freebooters. Such tribes often roam through wide circles. They appear not to have practiced circumcision ( Exodus 4:25 ), which is now practically universal among the Arabs. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/ephah.htm
... the island of Meleda on the East coast of the Adriatic Sea was due to the ancient practice of employing the term Adria to include the Ionian and Sicilian seas. Malta is the largest ...
https://bibleatlas.org/malta.htm
... of Asia Minor there projects for 90 miles into the sea a long, narrow peninsula, practically dividing the Aegean from the Mediterranean. It now bears the name of Cape Crio. Ships ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cnidus.htm
... Tibareni" may refer in the clause above. This juxtaposition of names is in harmony with practically every appearance of the word in Scripture. It is seldom named without some one of the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/meshech.htm
... increased the power of the League and gave it an excellent constitution, which our own great practical politicians, Hamilton and Madison, consulted, adopting many of its prominent devices, when they ...
https://bibleatlas.org/achaia.htm
... that, the city having fallen into ruin, he rebuilt it, and it thereafter became practically the capital of the country, for he not only reerected or restored its shrines and temples-the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/calah.htm
... vicinity of Dodona, in Epirus. At any rate, Graeci and Graecia owed their introduction practically to the Romans after their contact with the Greeks in the war with Pyrrhus, and in ...
https://bibleatlas.org/greece.htm
... rich. Here and there may be found a bank of vines; but the country is practically treeless: the characteristic product is wheat, and in its cultivation the village population is almost ...
https://bibleatlas.org/hauran.htm
... the names. The identification of Sepharvaim with the Babylonian Sip(p )ar is now practically abandoned. See SEPHARVAIM . T. G. Pinches A'VA, probably the same as Hit ...
https://bibleatlas.org/ivvah.htm
... after the death of Julius Caesar. From the time of Augustus the term was used in practically its modern sense (Nissen, Italische Landeskunde, I, 57-87) . The name Italy ...
https://bibleatlas.org/italy.htm
... narrow defile, with lofty, precipitous crags on either side-the only place where a crossing is practicable. To the South of the gorge is Geba, which had been occupied by the Philistines ...
https://bibleatlas.org/michmash.htm
... land. Miletus has been so ruined that its plan can no longer be made out. Practically the only remaining object of unusual interest is theater, the largest in Asia Minor, which ...
https://bibleatlas.org/miletus.htm
... of Hinnom. The name in ancient times may perhaps have covered a larger area, including practically all the land between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, where the head-waters of Nahr Ruben are collected. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mount_perazim.htm
... 20 miles long and half as wide. A high and imposing range of the Taurus Mountains practically surrounds it upon three sides, and, jutting out into the sea, isolates it from ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pamphylia.htm
... ( 2 Kings 10:19 f ) . There are many prophetic references to the enormities practiced here, and to their inevitable consequences ( Isaiah 8:4 ; Isaiah 9:9 ...
https://bibleatlas.org/harmon.htm
... of certain men from Jerusalem in the 4th year of King Darius to inquire regarding particular religious practices. Bethel was one of the towns fortified by Bacchides in the time of the Maccabees ( ...
https://bibleatlas.org/el-bethel.htm
... in Acts a fast distinction is implied, and in fact existed, between the ideas and practices of the Greeks and the Roman colonists and those of the natives. This distinction would naturally ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lystra.htm
... which are considerable, date mainly from Christian times. The surrounding walls can be traced in practically their whole circuit. There is a large tank, now dry, measuring 108 yds. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/medeba.htm
