 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1808 - 390 pages
...miles square, and is peninsulated by the Persian gulf on the east, and the Red Sea on the west of it. This great country is supposed to have been peopled...horsemen and archers, formidable with the bow and the lance, and they have been wild men, and have dwelt in the desert. A singular circumstance in their... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1826 - 590 pages
...more than a thousand miles square, and is peninsulated by ihe Persian Gulf on the east, and the Ked Sea on the west. This great country is supposed to...have been fully accomplished in his posterity. The Araiis have ever been excellent- horsemen and archers; formidable with the bow and lance ; and they... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1828 - 526 pages
...country is supposed to have been peopled originally by the family of Ishmael, the son of Abraham. Of I Ishmael it was foretold, that he should be an archer,...his posterity. The Arabs have ever been excellent hotsemen and archers ; formidable with the bow and lance ; and they have been wild men, and have dwelt... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - Bible - 1835 - 324 pages
...from Ishmael, of whom it was foretold that he should be a wild man, the father of a great nation ; and that his hand should be against every man, and every man's hand against him. Gen. xvi. 12. xxi. 18. 18. Descendants of Lot, the Moabites and Ammonites. the Amorites... | |
 | Robert Benton Seeley - 1839 - 528 pages
...25, 27.) exactly fulfilled. We find the promise to Ishmael, that he should become " a great nation," and that his hand should be against " every man, and every man's handagainst him," (Gen. xvi. 12; xvii. 20.) and we find this also exactly fulfilled. Esau, or Edom,... | |
 | Robert Benton Seeley - 1839 - 528 pages
...25, 27.) exactly fulfilled. We find the promise to Ishmael, that he should become " a great nation," and that his hand should be against " every man, and every man's Jiand against him," (Gen. xvi. 12 ; xvii.20.) and we find this also exactly fulfilled. Esau, or Edom,... | |
 | Harvey Newcomb - Islam - 1844 - 228 pages
...must be the descendants of Ishmael ; for the Lord told Abraham that Ishmael should be a wild man ; and that his hand should be against every man, and every man's hand against him. Mother. You are right, my son. After God had promised Isaac to Abraham, and told... | |
 | Daniel Baker - Evangelistic sermons - 1846 - 384 pages
...Ghost." Of Ishmael it was predicted, that he should become a great nation ; that he should be a wild man, and that his hand should be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and that he should dwell in the ^presence of all his brethren-; Gen. xvi. 12; that... | |
 | Daniel Baker - Evangelistic sermons - 1847 - 396 pages
...Ghost." Of Ishmael it was predicted, that he should become a great nation; that he should be a wild man, and that his hand should be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and that he should dwell in the presence of all his brethren; Gen. xvi. 12; that... | |
 | 1849 - 884 pages
...when he found Hagar sitting by a fountain of water in the wilderness, that he should be a wild man, and that his hand should be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; yet still, that he should dwell in the presence of his brethren, and so has it been... | |
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It is a tract of country considerably more than a thousand miles square, and is peninsulated by the Persian Gulf on the east, and the Red Sea on the west. This great country is supposed to have been peopled originally by the family of Ishmael, the son... 
