The Lands of Scripture: comprising 'Those Holy Fields'; 'The Land of the Pharaohs' [both by S. M.] ; 'Pictures from Bible Lands' (edited by S. G. Green. The illustrations by E. Whymper, etc.)

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FROM LIFE BV W I WEBB. EDMUND EVANS. A SYRIAN SHEPHERD, |iBan<l;j of scripture: <ZzG$?x[,6 COMPRISING |j| THO^E HOEY FIEED£; THE Jh^ND OF THE PHARAOH? ; llf PICTURE? FROM BIBEE E&ND?. THE kEVDS* S. MANNING, LL.D., and S. G. GREEN, D.D. In that day Bball there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria ; and the Assyrian shall ccme into Egypt, and the Egyptian into ABByiia, and the Egyptiin shall serve with the AsByriau. In that day shall Israel be tbe third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessiog in the midst of the land; whom the Lord of hosts shall bless. saying. Blessed be Egypt my people, and AsByria the work of my binds, and Israel mine inheritance. Isaiah xix. 23-25. f onfcflit : %\% ficlrgious Œrnrt Stadefg. THOSE HOLY FIELDS Ejjg <9 fmimnuicl. Isaiah viii, 8. Ebc pltasant JJanb. Daniel viii. 9.

Stjj* glorious $anb. Dantel xi. 16. ftfce sorb's f anb. Hosea ix. 3. Zechariah ii. 12. 3£(je |tanb of pwmiae. Hebrews xi. 9. Deuteronomy viii. 7-9. 7/_ Z_-.." thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and %'ines, and fig-trees, ana pomegratiates ; a land of oil olive, and honey ; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. Deuteronomy viii. 7-9. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. Psalm xlviii. 2. The north and the south Thou hast created them : Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Thy name. p.salm ixxxix. 12.

Psalm Ixxxix. 12. Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion'. When God bringeth back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. psalm mi. 6. Psalm liii. 6. [From a Drawing by Mr. F. E, Blackstone RANGE OF HERMON NEAR BANIAS, OR CÆSAREA PHILIPPI, AT THE MAIN SOURCE OF THE JORDAN. The Probable Scene of our Lord's Transfiguration. J^c$if l|{irljr $iijU*" PALATINE ILLUSTRATED BY PEN AND PENCIL. THE REV. SAMUEL MANNING, LL.D., AUTHOR of ••THE LAND OF THE PHARAOHS," " ITALIAN PICTURES," "SPANISH PICTURES," "SWISS PICTURES," "AMERICAN PICTURES," ETC. "Those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross." THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, 56 Paternoster Row, 65 St. Paul's Churchyard, and 164 Piccadilly.