The plants of the Bible / [John Hutton Balfour].

  • John Hutton Balfour
Date:
1885
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Credit: The plants of the Bible / [John Hutton Balfour]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to be the tree indicated by the Hebrew words we have noticed. The quaking of its leaves has given origin to the name “ trembling poplar ” which is applied to it. The moving of the leaves seems to be referred to in the following passage: “ And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Ttephaim. Aspen, or Trembling Poplar.—(Mulberry-tree of Scripture.) And when David enquired of the Lord, he said, Thou shalt not go up, but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees [becaim]. And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself” (2 Sam. v. 23, 24 ; 1 Chron. xiv. 14, 15). The poplar gave the name to the valley of Baca, which 7
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