Rocks: The Ancestor of a Nation

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Isaiah 51:1
Listen to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the LORD: look to the rock from where you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from where you are dig.
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Westminster Abbey.
... and of the free Norseman, our own ancestor, for the ... it grew"the life of a great nation,
growing slowly ... roof, for use as well as beauty, the mountain rocks. ...
/.../kingsley/lectures delivered in america in 1874/lecture i westminster abbey.htm

The Maccabees.
... a family of priests, who, from their ancestor, Hasmon, were ... take the part of a weak
nation against a ... wilderness, the carved faces of the rocks still witnessing ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson xviii the maccabees.htm

The Land and the People.
... did in the field of Boaz; where his ancestor, the poet ... It is "a fifth Gospel," engraven
upon rocks. ... constituted the bone and sinew of the nation, the farmers ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 17 the land and.htm

The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus
... The common ancestor of the nation was acknowledged to have been Jacob, who, by his
wrestling with God, had obtained the name of Israel; the people were divided ...
/.../chapter iiithe hebrews and the.htm

The Political Constitution of Egypt
... the continuous existence of the ancestor, whose memory ... scribes and craftsmen,"the
whole nation lives anew ... traces of his visits"on the rocks of Elephantine ...
/.../chapter ithe political constitution of.htm

The Close of the Theban Empire
... on the rocks of Abu Simbel, was copied by Ramses ... and, stimulated by the example of
his ancestor at Qodshu ... Millier regards them as an Asiatic nation probably of ...
/.../chapter iiithe close of the.htm

The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... of the Aramaean tribes who constituted the actual Chaldaean nation. ... of Bazi takes
its name from an ancestor who must ... and awaited attack amid its rocks and pine ...
/.../chapter ithe assyrian revival and.htm

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... Near Yakhmur some detached rocks appear to have been arrested in their fall, and ...
Samsuiluna repaired the five fortresses which his ancestor Sumulailu had built. ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... The great bulk of the nation, however, soon returned to their idolatrous practices,
if ... not add the title "King of Judah" after the name of his ancestor Hezekiah ...
/.../chapter iiithe medes and the.htm

The Rise of the Assyrian Empire
... that they were two different peoples: the territory occupied by this nation must
have ... and one of them, Anu-banini, had engraved on the rocks overhanging the ...
/.../chapter iithe rise of the.htm

Subtopics

Rocks

Rocks used as Altars

Rocks used as Places for Idolatrous Worship

Rocks used as Places for Shelter by the Poor in Their Distress

Rocks used as Places of Observation

Rocks used as Places of Safety in Danger

Rocks were a Defence to a Country

Rocks: A Place of Safety

Rocks: Adullam

Rocks: Barren

Rocks: Bees often Made Their Honey Amongst