Deserts: Vast Barren Plains

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Exodus 5:3
And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us: let us go, we pray you, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice to the LORD our God; lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.
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John 6:13
Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above to them that had eaten.
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Library

Grundtvig's Hymns
... A study of his poetry is, therefore, not unlike a journey through a vast country,
alternating in ... Cold and barren like a mountain ... Wondrous to see on deserts bare ...
/.../aaberg/hymns and hymnwriters of denmark/chapter fifteen grundtvigs hymns.htm

The Harbinger
... A land of deserts and of pits, a land of drought ... by the Prophet to a wilderness
"a barren and dreary ... means they are possessed of and the vast objects they ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah vol 1/sermon ii the harbinger.htm

Epistle Lxiii. Limenius, Bishop of Vercellæ, Having Died, the See ...
... needy, and afflicted with pain, wandered in deserts, [3742] in ... You are like steersmen
in the vast sea. ... with huge rocks, or broken cliffs, or barren and hungry ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/epistle lxiii limenius bishop of.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... been often tempted to quit their barren domains and ... of Babylon still possessed, from
the deserts of the ... coast widened till it became a vast slightly undulating ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... Vast, slightly undulating plains succeed the table-lands: the soil ... The plains produced
barley and wheat in enormous ... of dunes is not necessarily barren, and the ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

The Gods of Egypt
... A world as vast as ours rested upon the other side of the iron ... the sky"the earth
with its continents, its seas, its alternation of barren deserts and fertile ...
/.../chapter ii the gods of egypt.htm

Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire ...
... on still further to the north-east, across the almost waterless deserts of Media. ...
in mountain warfare, lost much of their superiority on the plains, and could ...
/.../chapter iitiglath-pileser iii and the.htm

The Rise of the Assyrian Empire
... was exposed to the dry and burning winds which swept over the plains, so that ... L,
the powerful king "who reduced to servitude the forces of the vast country of ...
/.../chapter iithe rise of the.htm

Book Twelve the Mode of Creation and the Truth of Scripture. ...
... from which the tangible, corporeal world is produced, containing in its vast bosom
these ... For thou, O Lord, hast blotted out all my evil deserts, not punishing ...
/.../augustine/confessions and enchiridion/book twelve the mode of.htm

The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... a province, a kind of buffer state between the mountain tribes and the plains of
the ... of the Khabur and the Balikh, the Euphrates winds across a vast table-land ...
/.../chapter ithe assyrian revival and.htm

Subtopics

Deserts

Deserts of the Red Sea

Deserts: Arabian or Great Desert

Deserts: Danger of Travelling In

Deserts: Desolate

Deserts: Desolation by Armies

Deserts: Dry and Without Water