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Isaiah 21:1,9
The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
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Looking to the Hills
... The so-called 'Songs of Degrees,' of which this psalm is one ... He was perfectly
comfortable in Babylon. ... strip of mountain land, shut in between the desert and the ...
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The Story of Hagar and Ishmael
... lands to sell to the people of Babylon, and Assyria ... and went to live near a place
called Gerar, in ... she lost the road, and wandered over the desert, not knowing ...
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Demonstration v. --Of Wars.
... [784] So Jeremiah called him a ... all the nations, and they shall serve the king of
Babylon seventy years ... And also the beasts of the desert and the birds of heaven ...
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John the Baptist --visit of Jesus to John, and his Abode in the ...
... his activity in that part of the desert of Judea ... opposite to Jericho, or to a place
called AEnon, or ... Mishnah, Pesachim, viii.8; Talmud of Babylon, Jebamoth, 46 ...
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The Flight into Egypt and St. John the Baptist in the Desert
... a later time I came over the sea to Egypt ... The desert here was not waste and barren;
many plants ... each side of the Nile, and another called Babylon which seemed ...
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Psalm LXV.
... desire, but still they are of the confusion of Babylon. ... great preachers, and those
same He hath called mountains; humble ... bottom, and made the sea a desert place ...
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On the Sunday Called "Episozomenes," to those who had Come to ...
... as a bunch of grapes in the desert; and I ... And Judæa is called Lebanon, because of
its situation near that ... the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon. ...
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How the Hebrews under the Conduct of Moses Left Egypt.
... a place at that time deserted, but where Babylon was built ... third day they came to
a place called Beelzephon, on ... of the land, because it was a desert, they eat ...
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The Rebuilding of the Temple.
... Cyrus was dead, and his son, Cambyses, (called also Ahasuerus ... lost his whole army
by thirst in a desert. ... In Darius's reign Babylon revolted, and he laid siege ...
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The Land and the People.
... Who will deny the biblical records of Babylon and Nineveh after ... Egypt, the cradle
of Israel, the Desert, its school ... the poet-king, was born and called from his ...
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