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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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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Bünting, Heinrich, 1545-1606.
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London :: Printed by Adam Islip,
1636.
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Bible -- Geography -- To 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17140.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.

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Of Hazezon Thamar.

THis Citie tooke the name from a Palme tree, or a Palme banke. Of this kinde of wood the Israelites made their ar∣rowes, and therefore deriue it from Charar, which signifieth to shoot; and Thamar, a Palme Tree. This City standeth vpon the banke of the dead sea, twenty miles from Ierusalem North-East,

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vpon a very fruitfull soile, where was found plenty of Palm trees and pretious balsam: and by some called Engedi, or the Lambes Well; being deriued from Ein and Gedi, which signifieth Fontem haeduli lactantis, that is, The Wel of a sucking lambe or goat. Not far from hence stood the Caue where Dauid cut off the outward lap of King Sauls garment, 1 Sam. 24.

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