Ancient Egypt from the Records

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Methuen, 1924 - 244 pages

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Page 209 - Cabul unto this day. 14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold. 15 f And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
Page 211 - With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. 4 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
Page 226 - He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
Page 226 - And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land : for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
Page 223 - After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish* by Euphrates : and Josiah went out against him. But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah ? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war; for God commanded me to make haste : forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
Page 107 - The King himself, he led the way of his army, mighty at its head like a flame of fire, the King who wrought with his sword. He went forth none like him slaying the barbarians, smiting Retenu, bringing their princes as living captives, their chariots wrought with gold, bound to their horses 3 Their champions lay stretched out like fishes on the ground.

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