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ssss1. Psalm 107: 4–7.

ssss1. Ezek. 34: 14.

ssss1. Isa. 33: 12.

ssss1. Jer. 4: 3; Hosea 10: 12.

ssss1. Cf. John 15.

ssss1. Isa. 5: 2.

ssss1. 1 Sam. 30: 6; 1 Kings 12: 18; 2 Kings 3: 25; cf. Matt. 23: 37; John 8: 59; 10: 31.

ssss1. Cf. Matt. 4: 5; 27: 53.

ssss1. 1 Sam. 7: 5.

ssss1. 1 Kings 6: 23, 31–33.

ssss1. Matt. 7: 19.

ssss1. Isa. 28: 4.

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The population of Palestine is divided into three parts, desert, village and city. The desert population is the original Arab stock of pastoral nomads.^[49] The village population is the agricultural society of the country, and the cities are the meeting places of these two with the population of other countries. The Bedawy population of the desert is the subject of much praise on the part of all writers. All who speak of the Bedawîn use a certain tone of respect, even though occasion is taken to poke fun at them for their rude ways as viewed by the dwellers in towns. The religion of the Bedawîn is a simplified Islâm, or, as it may perhaps be styled, a Moslemized simplicity. The encampment and the march, herding and the raid, mark the features of a roving life over some thousands of square miles of wild land. The different tribes have their general boundaries in the great Syrian and Arabian deserts in about the same way that the North American Indian once kept within certain regions of the continent according to nations.