Assyria, her manners and customs, arts and armsSoc. for promoting Christian Knowledge, 1852 - 642 pages |
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... gates of the rivers shall be opened , and the palace shall be dissolved . " ( Nahum ii . 6. ) * The reader may compare the prophecy of Nahum . + Blackburn's Nineveh ; its Rise and Ruin , p . 50 . the constituent provinces of Media ...
... gates of the rivers shall be opened , and the palace shall be dissolved . " ( Nahum ii . 6. ) * The reader may compare the prophecy of Nahum . + Blackburn's Nineveh ; its Rise and Ruin , p . 50 . the constituent provinces of Media ...
Page 42
... gates of the rivers shall be opened , and the palaces shall be dissolved . " Jehovah will make an utter end ; affliction shall not rise up the second time . No more of her name shall be sown ; the Lord will cut off the graven image ...
... gates of the rivers shall be opened , and the palaces shall be dissolved . " Jehovah will make an utter end ; affliction shall not rise up the second time . No more of her name shall be sown ; the Lord will cut off the graven image ...
Page 50
... gate of the Assyrian capital . • · " But although this Sardanapalus , the builder of the north - west palace of Nimrud , is the earliest Assyrian monarch whose annals have been yet dis- covered , it does not by any means follow that he ...
... gate of the Assyrian capital . • · " But although this Sardanapalus , the builder of the north - west palace of Nimrud , is the earliest Assyrian monarch whose annals have been yet dis- covered , it does not by any means follow that he ...
Page 71
... gates which the LORD * The process of reasoning , by which the infant Abram discovered the vanity of the prevalent worship of the heavenly host , is narrated in a pleasing manner in one of these Arabian tales . When travelling across ...
... gates which the LORD * The process of reasoning , by which the infant Abram discovered the vanity of the prevalent worship of the heavenly host , is narrated in a pleasing manner in one of these Arabian tales . When travelling across ...
Page 72
... gates , even that man or that woman , and shalt stone them with stones , till they die . Deut . xvii . 2-5 . Traces of the astrolatry of the Assyrians occur in the earlier sculptures , but they are not numerous . In one from the north ...
... gates , even that man or that woman , and shalt stone them with stones , till they die . Deut . xvii . 2-5 . Traces of the astrolatry of the Assyrians occur in the earlier sculptures , but they are not numerous . In one from the north ...
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