Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.

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Title: Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.
Author: Bünting, Heinrich, 1545-1606.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam Islip,; 1636.
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Subject terms: Bible -- Geography -- To 1800.
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Of Zarpath, or Sarepta.

THis was a Citie of the Sidonians, where they found much mettall of diuers kindes; lying betweene Tyrus and Sydon, 112 miles from Ierusalem towards the North; and taketh the name from Zoraph, which signifies, To trie, or burne with fire. There is at this time but eight houses in all the towne, although by the ruines it seemeth to haue beene in times past a very faire citie. The inhabitants thereof take vpon them to shew the cham∣ber wherein Elias the Prophet sometimes liued, when hee raised the widowes childe to life. Before the gate of the citie also there is shewed a certaine Chappell, where (they say) Elias first spake with the widow, 1 Reg. 17.