 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1822 - 578 pages
...dispassionate enquiry, determined to make this country their future abode. Like Lot, they " lifted up their eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where ;" fertile, " even as the Garden of Eden)" and abounding in the choicest gifts of nature. Thousands,... | |
 | David Jennings - Bible - 1823 - 654 pages
...There is a similar instance of a remote connection in the following passage of the book of Genesis : " And Lot lifted up his eyes* and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the... | |
 | Caleb Pitt - Christianity - 1824 - 868 pages
...moft remote motive was the perception coexiftent iflent with his lifting up his eyes, and beholding all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord. This perception, with its accompanying incitation in refpeft of the forefaid belief and perfuafion>... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1824 - 622 pages
...phrases render the translations obscure in many places. " Gen. xiii. H), should be thus placed : ' And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan, as thou comest to Zoar, that it was well watered every where, even as the garden of the Lord, like... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...right, in either, to occupy whatever ground he pleased, that was not pre-occupied by other tribes. " And Lot lifted up his eyes, " and beheld all the plain...Then Lot " chose him all the plain of Jordan, and journeyed east; and " Abraham dwelt in the land of Canaan." r 7 ] UPON the same principle was founded... | |
 | David Jennings - Bible - 1825 - 660 pages
...There is a similar instance of a remote connexion in the following passage of the book of Genesis: " And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt,... | |
 | L. Cohen - Astronomy - 1825 - 192 pages
...devoted cities, previous to their overthrow, it was the most delightful that man could wish to live in. " And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the " plain...of Jordan, that it was well watered every '' where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and " Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like " the land of... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...the days of Lot ; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planter!, they builded ; * And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Go morrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt,... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God, xi*, lu — 24. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it «ros well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, eren as the garden of... | |
 | 874 pages
...one period abundantly productive and fertile. When Lot separated from Abraham, we are told that he " beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where — as the garden of the Lord, as the land of Egypt." * Isaac, when blessing Jacob, declared that God... | |
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And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 
