The Historians' History of the World: Israel, India, Persia, Phoenicia, Minor nations of western AsiaHenry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 |
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... continued to draw reverent pilgrims as late as the fall of the kingdom of Judah . ( This follows from a critical examina- tion of Jeremiah xli . ) Among these legends are those of the patriarchs in their earlier form , and perhaps even ...
... continued to draw reverent pilgrims as late as the fall of the kingdom of Judah . ( This follows from a critical examina- tion of Jeremiah xli . ) Among these legends are those of the patriarchs in their earlier form , and perhaps even ...
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... continued to be under the control of the Hittites . Even Seti I ( father of Ramses II ) , who had a course of unbroken success in northern Arabia and southern Palestine , could occupy permanently no fortress in Canaan to the north of ...
... continued to be under the control of the Hittites . Even Seti I ( father of Ramses II ) , who had a course of unbroken success in northern Arabia and southern Palestine , could occupy permanently no fortress in Canaan to the north of ...
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... continued loyal to the northern Israelitish king . Asa had found it impossible to oppose a marriage between the crown - prince and Athaliah , the daughter of Jezebel . So , officially at any rate , there was religious as well as ...
... continued loyal to the northern Israelitish king . Asa had found it impossible to oppose a marriage between the crown - prince and Athaliah , the daughter of Jezebel . So , officially at any rate , there was religious as well as ...
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... continued after Jehu's death . So large a part of the Negeb was taken either by Hazael or by his successor Ben - Hadad , i.e. , Bir - dadda , and so many of its Israelite inhabitants had been either slain in battle or carried away into ...
... continued after Jehu's death . So large a part of the Negeb was taken either by Hazael or by his successor Ben - Hadad , i.e. , Bir - dadda , and so many of its Israelite inhabitants had been either slain in battle or carried away into ...
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... continued to promote the religious reaction . After two years he was murdered , but the " people of the land , " who appear to have sympathised with Amon's views , punished the murderers . This was about 636 B.C. , noteworthy as the ...
... continued to promote the religious reaction . After two years he was murdered , but the " people of the land , " who appear to have sympathised with Amon's views , punished the murderers . This was about 636 B.C. , noteworthy as the ...
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Page 120 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! how is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary...
Page 122 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 122 - THUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have holden, To subdue nations before him ; And I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut...
Page 63 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.
Page 62 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 62 - And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Page 122 - Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Page 83 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided : they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Page 83 - Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 62 - Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin...