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«Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a traveler?and novelists are often travelers?is to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.»
«But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: fetters, Gaza, grind, prison house, The Prison
«Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: coast, Gaza
«Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Gaza, harlot, harlots, Samson
«There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Ashdod, Gath, Gaza
«And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.»
«And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; / And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Amalekites, encamped, Gaza, ox, sown, sustenance
«Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom: / But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof: / And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.»
«And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof: / And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.»
«Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: eyeless, Gaza