Bible Dictionary: Night: Eastern Shepherds Watched Over Their Flocks During

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Genesis 31:40
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
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Luke 2:8
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
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The Nativity of Jesus the Messiah.
... a desire to avoid Samaria, along the eastern banks of ... of the cave out into the night,
its sky ... shepherds, who watched over them, were not ordinary shepherds. ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter vi the nativity of.htm

Scenes in the Lives of the Patriarchs.
... kindled with a serene welcome when at night-fall he ... and Jacob, were among the richest
shepherds of antiquity ... was Job." This region was in Eastern Arabia, and ...
/.../headley/half hours in bible lands volume 2/scenes in the lives of.htm

Egypt
... the Sun-god as he journeys at night through a ... Ismailia and Zagazig; it lay at the
eastern extremity of ... been given by the Pharaohs to the nomad shepherds of Asia ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter v egypt.htm

Hymns, Festival and Occasional.
... While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground ... Another favorite
hymn of the Eastern Church was ... By day, by night, at home, abroad, We ...
/.../brown/the story of the hymns and tunes/chapter xiii hymns festival and.htm

The Nile and Egypt
... The true Nile, the Eastern Nile, is less a ... and head-rests for use at night, comprised
all ... Travellers, shepherds, all those whose occupations called them to the ...
/.../chapter i the nile and egypt.htm

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... world in itself, whose inhabitants, half shepherds, half bandits ... of all the provinces
on the eastern bank of ... 10, 1831, which in a single night destroyed half ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

The Temples and the Gods of Chaldaea
... side of the strong." Henceforward Gudea watched scrupulously lest ... illustrious scion
of Sin," passed the night in the ... INTERIOR OF THE HEAVEN BY THE EASTERN GATE ...
/.../chapter iithe temples and the.htm

The Journey of the Three Holy Kings to Bethlehem
... An Eastern man and woman making wool cords ... One could see shepherds' dwellings here
and there, with walls of ... outside at pasture and only spends the night in the ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xiii the journey of the.htm

The Immaculate Conception
... his finest lambs, kids, and cattle, sending shepherds to take ... had for many years
felt, in the night of the ... XV, xi, 5) certainly mentions an eastern gate where ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/ii the immaculate conception.htm

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... towards the earth, but a baleful night spreads itself ... hostilities; their king Tiushpa,
who ruled over their territory on ... seat of war on the eastern frontier of ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm