A History of Babylonia and Assyria, Volume 2Eaton & Mains, 1900 - 847 pages |
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Adad-nirari Adad-nirari III allies Annals Aramæans Asshur Asshurbanapal Asshurnazirpal Assyrian army Assyrian governor Assyrian king Assyriologie attack Babylonia Babylonian Chronicle Bibl Borsippa Calah campaign capital Carchemish carried Chaldeans Chaldia Comp conquered conqueror conquest Cylinder Cyrus Damascus east Egypt Egyptian Elam Elamites empire Esarhaddon Euphrates expedition fled force Geschichte gods Hamath hands inhabitants inscriptions invaded Israel Jerusalem Judah Keilinschrift Keilschrifttexte king of Assyria king of Babylon king's kingdom Kummukh lines Manda marched Marduk Merodach-baladan mountains Nabonidus Nabopolassar Nairi Namri Nebuchadrezzar Nineveh northern Obelisk palace Palestine peace pileser plundered possession prince probably province Rassam rebellion rebels Records royal ruin rule rulers Rusas Samaria Sarduris Sargon Sayce Sea Lands Semitic Sennacherib sent Shalmaneser Shalmaneser IV Shamash-shum-ukin Shamshi-Adad Sidon siege Sin-shar-ishkun Sippar soon success Syria taken Taylor Prism temple territory throne Tiglath Tigris tion translated Tyre Urartu victory walls Winckler
Popular passages
Page 289 - Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust : thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them. There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
Page 335 - Build ye houses, and dwell in them ; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them ; take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters ; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Page 201 - 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 293 - 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...
Page 325 - For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
Page 335 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Page 391 - In the middle of the precinct there was a tower of solid masonry, a furlong in length and breadth, upon which was raised a second tower, and on that a third, and so on up to eight.
Page 390 - As fast as they dug the moat the soil which they got from the cutting was made into bricks, and when a sufficient number were completed they baked the bricks in kilns. Then they set to building, is and began with bricking the borders of the moat, after which they proceeded to construct the wall itself, using throughout for their cement hot bitumen, and interposing a layer of wattled reeds at every thirtieth course of the bricks.
Page 293 - This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, " I am, and there is none beside me:" how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in ! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Page 311 - 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.