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Hardback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. This historic book may have num… More...

Hardback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1841 Excerpt: ... BRUNETTI'S MODEL OF ANCIENT JERUSALEM. "The Lord Ioveth the gates of Zion more than the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God." Ps. cxxii. Jerusalem is situated in the centre of the hill country of Judea, 37 miles east of the Mediterranean sea, and 23 west of the river Jordan. It is on all sides surrounded by mountains, --" As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever."--jPs., cxxv. 2. Jerusalem, properly speaking, consists of three hills--Zion, Acra, and Moriah; to which, at a later period, was added Bezetha, or the New City. These hills were on three sides surrounded by the deep valleys of Gihon and Hinnom, with those of Jehoshaphat and Gethsemane, and were separated from each other by lesser valleys, of which the chief was called the Tyropoean; but the latter have in a great measure been filled up, as well by the lowering of the hills themselves, as by the quantity of rubbish and debris of the buildings cast into them during the devastations which we are informed this ill-fated city has not less than seventeen times undergone; so that in many places the interior of the pre A 2 sent Jerusalem presents nearly a-level where once was hill and valley. In this Model an effort has been made to represent the Holy City under the appearance which it originally bore. The most remarkable of these hills was Zion: --"Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion. On the sides of the north, the city of the great king."--Ps., xlviii. "Walk about Zion, and go around about her: tell the towers thereof; mark ye well her bulwarks: consider her palaces."--Ibid. This hill, the ridges of which, according to the predictions of the prophet, are now covered with co..., Anthologies (non-poetry)<

ISBN: 1168954797

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ISBN: 9781168954794

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