Word: jerusalem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
March 16.- Jerusalem, Past and Present. Rev. Professor Theodore F. Wright, Ph. D., Secretary for the United States of the Palestine Exploration Fund...
...line of David, married Athaliah, daughter to Ahab and Jezebel, who reigned over Israel, famous both of them, but chiefly Jezebel, for their bloody persecutions of the Prophets. Athaliah, no less impious than her mother, soon drew her husband to idolatry, and even caused to be built in Jerusalem a temple to Baal, which was the god of the country of Tyre and Sidon, where Jezebel was born. Jehoram, after having seen all the princes his children, with the single exception of Ahaziah, perish by the hands of the Arabians and the Philistines, himself died wretchedly from a lingering sickness...
...scene is in the temple of Jerusalem in the vestibule of the apartment of the grand-priest...
...single scene represents a vestibule opening into an inner court of the temple at Jerusalem. The back-ground is a semi-circular wall pierced by three heavily curtained doors at its centre. Three low, broad steps lead up to the middle door...
...Hutton's previous books of similar character on "Florence," "Venice," "London," "Edinburgh," and "Jerusalem," are a sufficient indication of the motive and style of the present volume and of the accuracy and care with which it has been prepared...