New Light on the Bible and the Holy Land: Being an Account of Some Recent Discoveries in the EastCassell, 1892 - 469 pages |
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... centuries in existence . Nevertheless , this was still the period of the childhood of Jerusalem , alluded to by the prophet Ezekiel , who reminds the city of her early history : - " Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan ...
... centuries in existence . Nevertheless , this was still the period of the childhood of Jerusalem , alluded to by the prophet Ezekiel , who reminds the city of her early history : - " Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan ...
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... century B.C. - Use of the Apadana by Persian kings -Their banquets - Their various drinking - vessels - Conquest of Susa by Alexander - Treasures found there by him - Elucidation of the Book of Esther from secular sources - Name of ...
... century B.C. - Use of the Apadana by Persian kings -Their banquets - Their various drinking - vessels - Conquest of Susa by Alexander - Treasures found there by him - Elucidation of the Book of Esther from secular sources - Name of ...
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... century of our era , is said to have visited Nineveh in the course of his journey through the Parthian dominions ; but as his life , written by Philostratus at the beginning of the third century , is an historical romance , it is ...
... century of our era , is said to have visited Nineveh in the course of his journey through the Parthian dominions ; but as his life , written by Philostratus at the beginning of the third century , is an historical romance , it is ...
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... century ; and many others who held this see are known in the annals of the Syrian Church down to the ninth century , when the bishopric seems to have been abolished . There were several monasteries in this district during the Middle ...
... century ; and many others who held this see are known in the annals of the Syrian Church down to the ninth century , when the bishopric seems to have been abolished . There were several monasteries in this district during the Middle ...
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... century is distinguished in the annals of the Oriental Churches and of Syriac literature by the life and works of Bar - Hebræus , the Primate of the East , who , in the course of his pastoral journeys , frequently visited Nineveh and ...
... century is distinguished in the annals of the Oriental Churches and of Syriac literature by the life and works of Bar - Hebræus , the Primate of the East , who , in the course of his pastoral journeys , frequently visited Nineveh and ...
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Page 465 - Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beast? of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Page 150 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
Page 7 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it...
Page 244 - Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Page 198 - For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram : once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Page 108 - Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange — Sculptured on alabaster obelisk Or jasper tomb, or mutilated Sphinx — Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals.
Page 351 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 198 - Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold...
Page 284 - Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.