The student's ancient history. The ancient history of the East1871 |
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Amasis ancient annals appears Armenia army Aryan Asia Minor Asshur Assyrian kings Astyages Babylon Babylonian Behistun Behistun Inscription Berosus bricks called Cambyses capital captives Carians Chaldæan CHAP character chief Chron conquest Ctesias cuneiform Cyaxares Cyrus Darius deity desert Diodorus dynasty Egyptian empire Esar-haddon Ethiopia Euphrates feet Five Monarchies Greece Greek Hebrew Herod Herodotus hieroglyphic inscriptions invasion Judah king of Egypt kingdom land language later legend Lower Egypt Lydian Manetho Medes Media Memphis mentioned Mesopotamia monuments mounds mountains nations native Nebuchadnezzar Nile Nimrud Nineveh Oppert origin palace Persian Pharaoh Phoenician Phrygians plain priests probably Psammetichus Pyramid race Rameses Rameses II Rawlinson records reign religion revolt river royal ruins sacred Sargon says Scripture sculptures Scythians seems Semitic Sennacherib Shepherd Sidon Strabo Syria temple Theban Thebes Thothmes Tiglath-pileser Tigris Tirhakah tombs tradition tribes Turanian Tyre Upper valley walls whole worship writers
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Page 486 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 195 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad...
Page 281 - Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him. 8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles.
Page 297 - 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 569 - Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas...
Page 267 - For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood ; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Page 306 - Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother ! or, Ah sister ! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord ! or, Ah his glory ! He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Page 280 - For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses. And the Lord was with him ; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth : and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
Page 310 - And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it ; and they built forts against it round about.
Page 316 - ... thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.