| Edward Daniel Clarke - Africa - 1823 - 490 pages
...Genesis, xxxvii. (9) " And, behold, a company of Jshmeelites came from Gilead, with their camels hearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to EGYPT." Ibid. v. 25. (10) Ibid. ver. 36. herds were feeding, as of old ' : nor in the simple garb of the shepherds... | |
| Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 392 pages
...of ma!!ng adventurers who had made an incursion for "plunder, but to a company of merchants, who " came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery,...balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt." The very articles of their traffic prove that they must have had a commercial intercourse with India, whence... | |
| Thaddeus Mason Harris - Nature in the Bible - 1824 - 474 pages
...an article of commerce in Gilead, Jong before the period he mentions91. " A company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery,...balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt." Gen. xxxvii. 25. Now the spicery, or pepper, was certainly purchased by the Ishmaelites at the mouth... | |
| William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...water in it. And they sat down to eat bread : and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead, with their...and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit u it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood 1... | |
| George Townsend - Bible - 1826 - 902 pages
...water in it. 25 And they sat down to eat bread : and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their...and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood... | |
| Andrew Thomson (of Bristol) - Bible - 1826 - 394 pages
...of him ? A. His brethren, who had sat down to eat bread, seeing a caravan of Ishmaelite Arabs coming from Gilead, " with their camels bearing spicery, and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt,"t hastily adopted a proposal of Judah's, and sold him in the absence of Reuben to these merchants.... | |
| 1859 - 632 pages
...sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt. An! the Lord had sent them that way. And so He ofttimes does in our experience ; He raiseth... | |
| Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1828 - 464 pages
...period. When Joseph was sold by his brethren, it was to " a company of Ishmaelitish merchants, who came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery,...balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt," Gen. xxxvii. 25. Whenever this tree might be first cultivated in Judea, it appears evident that its... | |
| Joseph Fincher - Providence and government of God - 1829 - 442 pages
...xxxvii. 25—28. And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead, with their...and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood ?... | |
| John Le Keux - 1829 - 476 pages
...they sat down to eat bread ; and lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery,...myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt."* The camel of Asia is frequently mentioned, not only by sacred but profane writers, not as connected with their... | |
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