Deuteronomy 8:9 A land wherein you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig brass. Torrey's Topical Textbook
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The Iranian Conquest ... which are by no means equally ancient;*** one can, nevertheless, make out from it ... who, first in golden splendour, passes over the beautiful mountains and casts ... /.../chapter ithe iranian conquest.htm