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and when he gave chase, it was too late to catch them; already they had crossed the river Eleutherus. (1 Maccabees 12, 30)
Such, too, were their memories of Egypt itself; memories of the land that bred lice and could breed no beasts else, the river that could spawn frogs, yet never a fish lived there. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 10)
make the tide of prudence run, strong as Euphrates’ own, or Jordan’s tide in the month of harvest; (Ecclesiasticus 24, 36)
And what am I?✻ A conduit that carries off the river’s overflow, its channel, the aqueduct that waters a park. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 41)
How green yonder rushes grow by the river’s bank! But they shall be plucked up before hay-harvest. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 16)
Deep as a river flowed thy wisdom; thy ambition it was to lay bare all the secrets of earth; (Ecclesiasticus 47, 16)
and now the Lord will bring the waters of Euphrates upon it, in full flood; I mean the king of the Assyrians, in all his greatness. This flood will fill up all the channels of the river, overflow all its banks, (Isaiah 8, 7)
Land of Zabulon and Nephthali, its burden at first how lightly borne! but after-wards affliction weighed on it, Galilee, by the sea road where the Gentiles dwell west of Jordan.✻ (Isaiah 9, 1)
Waters of the sea shall ebb, river waters be parched and dried up, (Isaiah 19, 5)
Laid bare, yonder river-bed, from its source; fade the crops its moisture nourished, fade and dwindle to nothing. (Isaiah 19, 7)
But a time is coming, when the Lord will beat the fruit from his trees,✻ as far away as the bed of Euphrates and the river of Egypt, and you, sons of Israel, shall be gathered in one by one. (Isaiah 27, 12)
till the name of the Lord strikes terror into western lands, and the east stands in awe of his fame. Here is a river coming upon them in full flood, driven on by the Lord’s breath; (Isaiah 59, 19)
