. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. hed his tent. Bethel, which still bore tlie luime ofBethizella, was situated aljout half a le;igue to the west of this, at the foot of the hill, in a very fertile district. We shall pre-sently have further occasion to notice Bethel. 32 HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Book I. infirmities, as all men are, and tempted, as all men are, by their passions, doubts, or fears;and by such temptation too often drawn aside from the right path. The whole of the sacredbook offers to us not a single character exempt from
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. hed his tent. Bethel, which still bore tlie luime ofBethizella, was situated aljout half a le;igue to the west of this, at the foot of the hill, in a very fertile district. We shall pre-sently have further occasion to notice Bethel. 32 HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Book I. infirmities, as all men are, and tempted, as all men are, by their passions, doubts, or fears;and by such temptation too often drawn aside from the right path. The whole of the sacredbook offers to us not a single character exempt from temptation; and it tells us of only Onewhom all temptation left without sin. It appears that Abram did not over-estimate the effect which the beauty of Sarai was likelyto produce upim the sensitive Egyptians. The attractions of the fair Mesopotamian strangerwere speedily discovered, and became the theme of many tongues. She was at last seen bysome of the princes of Pharaoh ; and the report of her beauty becoming, through them, thetalk of the court, soon reached the ears of the Egyptian
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