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                                                                       de-spise   

(di-spiz)v. tr. de-spised, de-spis-ing, de-spis-es. 1. To regard with contempt or scorn: despised all cowards and flatterers. 2. To dislike intensely; loathe: despised the frigid weather in January. 3. To regard as unworthy of one's interest or concern: despised any thought of their own safety. [Middle English despisen, from Old French despire, despis-, from Latin despicere : de-, de- + specere,  to look. See spek-.]--de-spis'al (-spizl). n. --de-spis'er n.

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 thee

(the) pron. Used in the nominative as well as the objective case, especially by members of the Society of Friends.

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Paran

It is not certain precisely where the wilderness of Paran is to be located. It is often associated with Mount Sinai in Egypt, and there is some evidence that it may originally have referred to the southern portion of the Sinai Peninsula. However the Deuteronomy 1:1 text suggests it could be east of the Jordan River.

 

The minor prophet Habakkuk references that "God is coming from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran" in Habakkuk 3:3.

Both Eusebius (in his Onomasticon, a Bible dictionary) and Jerome reported that Paran was a city in Paran desert, in Arabia Deserta (beyond Arabia Nabataea), southeast of Eilat Pharan. Onomasticon, under Pharan, states: "(Now) a city beyond Arabia adjoining the desert of the Saracens [who wander in the desert] through which the children of Israel went moving (camp) from Sinai. Located (we say) beyond Arabia on the south, three days journey to the east of Aila (in the desert Pharan) where Scripture affirms Ismael dwelled, whence the Ishmaelites. It is said (we read) also that (king) Chodollagomor cut to pieces those in 'Pharan which is in the desert'."[3]

 

 

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But there

went up

a

mist

 

from

 

the

earth,

 

and watered

the

whole face

 

of

 

the

ground.

**

 

but there

was

none

that could declare

it to me.

**

and there

was not

a

man

to

till

the

ground.

**

 

And where

is

now my hope?

 

as for my hope,

who

 shall

see it?

 

They shall

go

down to the bars

of

the pit,

 

when our

rest together

isin

the dust.

**

 

And God said,

 

Let us

make man

in

our image,

 

after our likeness:

 

***

 

Male

and female

created

 he them;

 

and blessed them,

 

and called

their name Adam,

 

in the day

when they were created.

*

 

And when

the

woman saw

that the tree

 

was

good for food,

 

and that

it

 

was pleasant

to

the eyes,

 

and a tree

to be

desired

to

make

one wise,

**

 

Lo,

mine eye

hath seen all this,

mine ear

hath heard

 

and understood it.

 

What ye know,

the same

do

I

know also:

 

I am

not

inferior unto you.

Surely

I

would speak

to the

Almighty,

 

and I

desire to reason

with God.

But ye

are forgers

of

lies,

 

ye

are all

physicians

of

no value.

**

 

And Adam

knew

Eve his wife;

 

and she

conceived,

 

and bare Cain,

**

 

If I

rejoiced

 

because

my wealth was great,

 

and because

mine hand

had gotten much;

 

If I

 

beheld the sun

when

it

shined,

 

or

the

moon

walking in brightness;

 

And my

heart

hath been

secretly enticed,

 

or my

mouth

 

hath

 

kissed

my hand:

 

This also

were

 an inequity

to be

punished

by the

judge:

**

 

I

have gotten

a man

from the Lord.

 

**

 

And I

will bring

the blind

by a way

 

that they

knew not;

 

I

will lead them

in paths

that they

have not known:

 

I

 

will make

 

darkness

 

light

 

before them,

 

and crooked things straight.

***

 

And Adam

knew

 

his wife again;

 

and she

bare

a son,

 

and

called

his name Seth:

***

 

 Now

 these are the generations

of

Terah:

 

Terah begat Abram,

 

 Nahor,

 

and Haran;

 

and Haran

begat

Lot.

 

And Haran

died

before

 

his father

****

 

Therefore

shall

a man

 

leave his father

**

 

 

And God

opened

her

eyes,

 

and she

saw

a well

of

water;

 

and she went,

 

and filled

the

skin with water,

 

and gave

the

lad drink.

 

And

God

 

was with

the

lad;

 

and he grew,

and dwelt

in the

wilderness,

 

and became

an archer.

 

And he

dwelt

in the

wilderness

of

Paran:

 

and his mother

**

 

took him

a wife

out

of the

land of Egypt.

**

 

Therefore shall

a man

leave his father

and his mother,

 

and shall

cleave

unto

his wife:

 

and they shall

be

one flesh.

 

and shall

cleave

unto

his wife:

 

 and they shall

be

one flesh.

**

Then said

his wife

unto

him,

Dost thou

still retain

thine

integrity?

 

curse God,

 

and die.

**

 

 

**

 

and

Adam

and

his wife

 

hid

themselves

from

the

presence

of the

Lord God

 amongst the trees

of the

garden.

**

The Hanging Gardens

of

Babylon

were one

of the

Seven Wonders

of the

Ancient World

 

They were described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens containing a wide variety

of

trees, shrubs, and vines,

resembling

a

large green mountain

constructed

of

mud bricks.

 

It was said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq.

The Hanging Gardens' name is derived from the Greek word κρεμαστός (kremastós, lit. 'overhanging'), which has a broader meaning than the modern English word "hanging" and refers to trees being planted on a raised structure such as a terrace.

According to one legend, the Hanging Gardens were built alongside a grand palace known as The Marvel of Mankind, by the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II (who ruled between 605 and 562 BC),

 

secondly, that they existed in Babylon, but were completely destroyed sometime around the first century AD; and thirdly, that the legend refers to a well-documented garden that the Assyrian King Sennacherib (704–681 BC) built in his capital city of Nineveh on the River Tigris, near the modern city of Mosul.

 

 

**

and also

after that,

when the

sons

of

God

came in unto

the

daughters of men,

 

**

 

 

 

and they

bare children

to

them,

the same

 

became

mighty men

which were

of old,

 

men of renown.

 

 

 

and they

bare children

to

them,

the same

 

became

mighty men

which were

of old,

 

men of renown.

 

*

 

and burn

them throughly.

 

And they

had

brick

for

stone,

and slime

had they

for

mortar.

**

And God

saw the light,

that it

was good:

and God

divided

the light

from the darkness.

 

***

And when

she

could not longer

hide him,

 

she took

 

for him

an ark

of

bulrushes,

and daubed

it

with slime

and with pitch,

 

and put

the

child therein;

 

and she laid

 it in

the flags by the river's brink.

**** 

And I

will set

the

Egyptians against

 

the Egyptians:

 

and they shall

fight

 every one

against his brother,

 

and every one

against his neighbour;

 

city against city,

 

and kingdom

 

against kingdom.

 

And the spirit

of

Egypt

shall

fail

in the

midst

thereof;

 

and I

will destroy

the counsel thereof:

 

and they

shall

seek

to the

idols,

 

and to the charmers,

 

and to them

that have

familiar spirits,

and to the wizards.

**

 

Regard not them

that have

familiar spirits,

 

neither seek after wizards,

to be

defiled by them:

 

I am

the

 Lord your God.

 

Thou shalt rise up

before

the hoary head,

and honour

the face

of

the

old man,

and

fear

thy God:

I am

the

Lord ISamuelYea.

**

    

And the

Lord God

planted a garden

eastward

in Eden;

and there

he

put the man

whom

he

had formed.

 

And out

of the

ground

made the

Lord God

to

grow every tree

that is

pleasant

to the sight,

and good

for food;

the

tree of life

also

in the

midst

of the

garden,

 

and the

tree of knowledge

of

good and evil.

**

 

Have the gods

of

the nations

delivered

them which

 

my

fathers

have destroyed;

 

as Gozan,

and Haran,

and Rezeph,

 

and the children

of

Eden

which were

in

Thelasar?

**

This city,

which is referred

to by

Sennacherib's messengers

to

Hezekiah,

is stated

by

them to have

been

inhabited

by the

 

"children of Eden."

 

It had been captured by the Assyrian king's forefathers,

from

whose hands

its gods

had been unable to save it.

 

Notwithstanding the vocalization, the name is generally rendered

"Hill of Asshur,"

 

the chief god of the Assyrians, but "Hill of Assar," or Asari

 

(a name of the Babylonian Merodach),

****

 

 

At that time

Merodachbaladan,

the son of Baladan,

king of Babylon,

sent letters

and a present

to

Hezekiah:

 

for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

 

And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things,

the silver,

and the gold,

and the spices,

and the precious ointment,

 

and all the house

of his

armour,

and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him,

What said these men?

and from

whence

came they unto

thee?

And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from

Babylon.

 

Then said

he,

 

What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered,

 

All

that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

 

Then said

Isaiah

to

Hezekiah,

Hear the word

of the

Lord of hosts:

 

Behold,

the

days come,

 

that all

that is in

thine house,

 

and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left,

saith the Lord.

***

 

 

 

As Telassar was inhabited

by the

"children of Eden,"

and is mentioned with Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, in Western Mesopotamia, it has been suggested that it lay in Bit Adini,

 

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