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... JEWS , THE EGYPTIANS , 10 53 70 97 NATIONS OF ASIA MINOR - THE LYDIANS , 131 • 137 THE ASSYRIANS AND BABYLONIANS , THE MEDES AND PERSIANS , PART II . HISTORY OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE , AND GENERAL HISTORY OF THE EASTERN NATIONS UNDER THE ...
... JEWS , THE EGYPTIANS , 10 53 70 97 NATIONS OF ASIA MINOR - THE LYDIANS , 131 • 137 THE ASSYRIANS AND BABYLONIANS , THE MEDES AND PERSIANS , PART II . HISTORY OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE , AND GENERAL HISTORY OF THE EASTERN NATIONS UNDER THE ...
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... . 12. Egypt , in its middle part , is environed by hills , in which are limestone , slate , and quartz ; and PART I HISTORY OF ANCIENT NATIONS ULTIMATELY INCLUDED IN THE PERSIAN EMPIRE- THE PHOENICIANS, THE JEWS, THE EGYPTIANS,
... . 12. Egypt , in its middle part , is environed by hills , in which are limestone , slate , and quartz ; and PART I HISTORY OF ANCIENT NATIONS ULTIMATELY INCLUDED IN THE PERSIAN EMPIRE- THE PHOENICIANS, THE JEWS, THE EGYPTIANS,
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... Jews . The celebrated Pharaoh Thothmes III . appears , therefore , to have been one of the principal persecutors of the Israelites ; and probably the person in whose tomb the brickmaking is thus comme- morated , may have been the chief ...
... Jews . The celebrated Pharaoh Thothmes III . appears , therefore , to have been one of the principal persecutors of the Israelites ; and probably the person in whose tomb the brickmaking is thus comme- morated , may have been the chief ...
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... Jews as the Syrians of Palestine , and of the Pho- nicians as the Syrians of Phoenicia ; while , as a designation for the inhabitants of the remainder of Syria , they retained the general term Assyrians . 71. Phoenicia , or Phoenice ...
... Jews as the Syrians of Palestine , and of the Pho- nicians as the Syrians of Phoenicia ; while , as a designation for the inhabitants of the remainder of Syria , they retained the general term Assyrians . 71. Phoenicia , or Phoenice ...
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... Jewish historian Josephus to have been Sidon , the eldest son of Canaan . That Sidon pos- sessed claims to a very high antiquity , is at least indicated by the reference made to it in Joshua , xix . 28 , where it is called ' great Zidon ...
... Jewish historian Josephus to have been Sidon , the eldest son of Canaan . That Sidon pos- sessed claims to a very high antiquity , is at least indicated by the reference made to it in Joshua , xix . 28 , where it is called ' great Zidon ...
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Page 124 - 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 22 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 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 114 - And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work. 15 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!
Page 110 - I do well to be angry, even unto death. Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
Page 114 - 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 bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Page 59 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 99 - 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 upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 109 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Page 91 - And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel : and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
Page 23 - But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.