Side Lights Upon Bible HistoryMacmillan, 1892 - 299 pages |
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Aahmes Abraham Accadian Ahaz Amenhotep ancient army Assur-bani-pal Babylonian Behold Bible bricks called Canaan captivity century Chaldeans chariots civilisation conqueror Cyrus daughter Diodorus Egyptian empire Esar-haddon Euphrates Ezek father glory gods gold Greek hand heaven Hebrew Herodotus Hezekiah Hist Hittites horses Hyksos inhabitants inscription Isaiah Israel Israelites Israelitish Jehoiachin Jehoiakim Jeremiah Jerusalem Jewish Church Jews Josephus Josiah king of Assyria king of Babylon king of Judah kingdom land of Egypt Manetho Maspéro Merodach-Baladan midst mighty monarch monuments Nabonidus nations Nebuchadnezzar Nile Nineveh palace Pharaoh Phoenician priests princes prophet race Rameses Rameses II Rawlinson Murray reign Renan river royal ruler saith the Lord Samaria Sargon Sayce says Semitic Sennacherib Seti Shepherd siege silver Solomon Stanley stone Syria temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou throne Tiglath-Pileser tombs tribute Tyre unto walls words worship XVIIIth dynasty xxiii
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Page 105 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 105 - Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 70 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 244 - 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 254 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 195 - For thus saith the Lord GOD, the holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved ; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength ; and ye would not.
Page 146 - And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep and ye shall be his servants: And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall...
Page 204 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 202 - 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 284 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace : and the -king saw the part of the hand that wrote.