 | William Samways Oke - 1836 - 200 pages
...parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison ; and that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good, where is bdellium and the onyx-stone. The name of the second river is Gihon. Gen. ch. ii. v. 10. "... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1836 - 790 pages
...was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pisón ; that is it which compasscth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold : and the gold ofthat land is good : there is bdellium, and the onyx-stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...well known in his time. " The name of the first," he says, " is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole Land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and...the gold of that land is good ; there is bdellium and the onyx stone." This river is mentioned first, because it was the branch nearest to Arabia Petroea,... | |
 | 1828 - 636 pages
...Dragon, came from the garden of Eden (the river Pison, he would suppose it to be, ' which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good'); and, although he despaired of ascending so high, was perhaps not without a hope that he might come... | |
 | 1838 - 844 pages
...produced this metal in its excellence : ** The name of the first is Pisón : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good." Gen. ii. 11, 12. But the gold of Ophir seems to have been most renowned amongst the Hebrews. When the... | |
 | Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 pages
...Eden. " The name of the first of these rivers," says Moses, " is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and...the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone." The land of Havilah, washed by the first of Moses' rivers, appears to be described... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 534 pages
...I. TEXT: Gen. ii. 11, 12. — "The name of the first river is " Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, " where there is gold....the gold of that land is good : there " is bdellium and the onyx-stone." OBJECTION. — These observations appear the production of some one residing in... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there *» bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon : the same is it that compasseth... | |
 | 1841 - 612 pages
...rivers. ' The name of the first of these rivers,' says Moses, ' is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : thero is bdellium and the onyx stone.' The position of Havilah, the country washed by the first of... | |
 | Richard Hartley Kennedy - 1840 - 338 pages
...as worthy of special notice. The book of Genesis describes the river Pison as " it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good : " if we seek the Pison in the Oxus, that river and its tributary streams are not changed, and still... | |
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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good... 
