The Historians' History of the World: Israel, India, Persia, Phoenicia, Minor nations of western AsiaHenry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 |
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... Later conquests of Darius , Xerxes I , 614. The succes- 619. Artaxerxes III , 626 . CHAPTER V PERSIAN CIVILISATION • 634 Religion and social orders , 635. Organisation of the Persian court , 641. Ad- ministration of the provinces ...
... Later conquests of Darius , Xerxes I , 614. The succes- 619. Artaxerxes III , 626 . CHAPTER V PERSIAN CIVILISATION • 634 Religion and social orders , 635. Organisation of the Persian court , 641. Ad- ministration of the provinces ...
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... later tradition ) that Horeb or Sinai was near the sacred town of Kadesh , better known as Kadesh - Barnea , on the northern Arabian border , and also to assume that Zipporah ( the name of the traditional wife of Moses ) is connected ...
... later tradition ) that Horeb or Sinai was near the sacred town of Kadesh , better known as Kadesh - Barnea , on the northern Arabian border , and also to assume that Zipporah ( the name of the traditional wife of Moses ) is connected ...
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... later times a more southerly limit was fixed , viz . , at Kadesh . It is possible that among the pre - Israelitish inhabitants of the Negeb were the " sons of Anak " or Anakites , and that these Anakites ( whose terribleness was ...
... later times a more southerly limit was fixed , viz . , at Kadesh . It is possible that among the pre - Israelitish inhabitants of the Negeb were the " sons of Anak " or Anakites , and that these Anakites ( whose terribleness was ...
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... later than the period assumed in the legend . Both Benjamin and parts of the Negeb had to be won by force , and from the nature of the case , as well as from the fact that Saul's general and relative , Abner , took the side of Eshbaal ...
... later than the period assumed in the legend . Both Benjamin and parts of the Negeb had to be won by force , and from the nature of the case , as well as from the fact that Saul's general and relative , Abner , took the side of Eshbaal ...
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... ( later scribes , and hardly by mere accident , wrote " Shechem " ) , the voice of the nation was adequately expressed , and the doom pronounced on the house of David , in the name of the northern Israelites and the kindred clans in the ...
... ( later scribes , and hardly by mere accident , wrote " Shechem " ) , the voice of the nation was adequately expressed , and the doom pronounced on the house of David , in the name of the northern Israelites and the kindred clans in 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...