File:Wanderings in Bible lands- notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine (1894) (14782131484).jpg

Identifier: wanderingsinbibl00mill (find matches)
Title: Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, D(aniel) L(ong), 1841- (from old catalog)
Subjects:
Publisher: Mount Morris, Ill., The Brethren's publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
e.—Gen. 47: S, 6. lUE Land of Goshen again. Egypt has its pyramids,its obelisks, its ruined temples, its colossal statues,its wonderful tombs and its buried cities, each ofwhich has an interest peculiar to itself, but none are moreinteresting to the Bible student than the Land of Goshen.This small, fertile territory, watered by the Nile, was thebirthplace of a nation whose history and religion have hada wonderful influence upon the human race, an influencethat was destined to be felt long after the mighty nationwho received Jacob and his sons as guests had passedaway, and an influence that is destined to be felt throughthe line of Judah to the end of time. When Pharaoh spoke to Joseph concerning his fatherand his brethren and told him to let them dwell in the bestof the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen let themdwell, they numbered in all but seventy souls. Whenthese same Hebrews were led away from the land of bond-age and oppression by Moses, they had increased so that 384 w ■
Text Appearing After Image:
WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 387 of their number six hundred thousand from twenty yearsold and upward were able to go forth to war in Israel. *They had come down into Egypt a single family with theaged grandfather still with them; they went forth with astrong army, with a great multitude of women and chil-dren, old men and youths. They came down to Egypt alittle band of poverty-stricken wanderers, seeking food fortheir wives and little ones, they went forth a unified nation,ready to play its part in the great drama of the worldshistory. We could wish that we had more of the personalhistory of these dwellers in the Land of Goshen (theGosem of the Egyptian). The Bible passes over the manyyears of their sojourn with but few recorded events, andfrom the time of their settlement and the death of Jacoband Joseph until there arose a new king over Egypt whoknew not Joseph, we are without information as to the lifeand doings of the sons of Jacob. As they were an alienrace and as the years went b

Note About Images