The Historians' History of the World: Prolegomena; Egypt, MesopotamiaHenry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 |
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Aahmes Abydos according Amen Amenhotep ancient antiquity Apis army Asia Asshur Asshurbanapal Asshurnazirpal Assyrian Babylon Babylonian called Cambyses campaign canal century Chaldeans chariots chief civilisation conquered conquest death Delta desert Diodorus Dynasty earth Egypt Egyptian history Elam empire enemy epoch Esarhaddon Ethiopia Euphrates expedition father gods Greek hand Herodotus historian honour hundred Hyksos inhabitants inscriptions Karnak Khammurabi Kheta king kingdom land later Libyans lord Manetho Marduk Memphis Mesopotamia modern monarch monuments mountains Nabonidus nations Nile Nineveh Nippur Osiris palace papyrus patesi period Persian Pharaoh preserved priests princes probably Psamthek pyramid race Ramses Ramses II records reign religion river royal rulers sacred Sargon sculptures Semitic Sennacherib Seti Shabak Shalmaneser Shirpurla Sippar stone successors Syria tablets Tehutimes temple Theban Thebes thousand throne Tiglathpileser Tigris tion Tirhaqa tomb took town tribes victory walls whole worship
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Page 452 - And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison...
Page 466 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 463 - Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
Page 445 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines, might drink therein.
Page 463 - When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: 20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Page 609 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea. When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 223 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land...
Page 126 - Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like — all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike. Nay, number (itself) in armies importeth not much where the people is of weak courage, for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be.
Page 162 - And the LORD shall smite Egypt: He shall smite and heal it; and they shall return even to the LORD, and He shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
Page 464 - And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it ; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.