Assyria, her manners and customs, arts and armsSoc. for promoting Christian Knowledge, 1852 - 642 pages |
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... appears also that the numerous large non- venomous serpents which frequent these plains are fed by these insectivorous lizards . Vipers and snakes confine themselves more to the small Rodentia . " * * Ainsworth's Assyria , & c . , p ...
... appears also that the numerous large non- venomous serpents which frequent these plains are fed by these insectivorous lizards . Vipers and snakes confine themselves more to the small Rodentia . " * * Ainsworth's Assyria , & c . , p ...
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... appears , however , that there were two queens of this name , who flourished at widely distant periods . The second Semiramis is reported to have lived five generations before Nitocris , the queen - consort of Nebuchadnezzar . The ...
... appears , however , that there were two queens of this name , who flourished at widely distant periods . The second Semiramis is reported to have lived five generations before Nitocris , the queen - consort of Nebuchadnezzar . The ...
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... appears that the tributary provinces took the oppor- tunity to throw off their allegiance , which gave full employment to this monarch for many years of his long reign . His course , however , was marked by energy and success ; he early ...
... appears that the tributary provinces took the oppor- tunity to throw off their allegiance , which gave full employment to this monarch for many years of his long reign . His course , however , was marked by energy and success ; he early ...
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... appears to have restored the Assyrian empire to a state of splendour equal to that which it displayed in the brightest days of the more ancient dynasty . Manasseh , the profligate son of the pious Heze- kiah , at this time reigned on ...
... appears to have restored the Assyrian empire to a state of splendour equal to that which it displayed in the brightest days of the more ancient dynasty . Manasseh , the profligate son of the pious Heze- kiah , at this time reigned on ...
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... appears to commemorate the liberation of the islanders , belongs to the King of Assyria , who is known as the builder of Khorsabad . An expedition against Ashdod is described at Khorsabad , which may very well be that noticed in Isaiah ...
... appears to commemorate the liberation of the islanders , belongs to the King of Assyria , who is known as the builder of Khorsabad . An expedition against Ashdod is described at Khorsabad , which may very well be that noticed in Isaiah ...
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Page 109 - 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 59 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 441 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, And cried through the lattice, 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 461 - And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts : but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Page 58 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 460 - Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Page 78 - Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, and have cast their gods into the fire : for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone ; therefore they have destroyed them.
Page 71 - Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Page 123 - I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house. Also I had great possessions of great and small cattle, above all that were in Jerusalem before me. I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings ; and of the provinces I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts ; so I was great and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem.
Page 96 - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.