The Nations AroundMacmillan & Company, 1870 - 331 من الصفحات |
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Abraham ancient appear Arabs army Assurizirpal Assyrian Assyrian king Baal Babylonian beauty Benhadad Borsippa bricks brought building built called capital captives carried Chaldeans CHAPTER clay cylinder colour conquest Coptos Cyrus dead death desert divine Dynasty earth Egypt Egyptian empire enemies Esarhaddon eyes Ezekiel father gates gods graven hands Hazael head heart Hebrew Hezekiah hills inhabitants inscriptions Jehoiachin Jehoiakim Jeremiah Jerusalem Jewish journey king's kingdom land Layard Lebanon living Lord monarch Moses mounds Nabopolassar nations Nebuchad Nebuchadnezzar Nimrod Nineveh Osiris palace Palestine papyrus passed Persian Pharaoh Phoenicians priests princes prophet Ptah-neferka Ramses the Second reign river round royal ruins sacred Samaria Sargon sculptured Sennacherib sent Shalmaneser Sidon Sidonians siege Sir Henry Rawlinson soldiers stone symbol Syria temple Terah thee Thoth thou throne Tiglath-Pileser tomb towers town trees tribes Tyre Tyrian walls words worship Zedekiah Zoan
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الصفحة 211 - 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.
الصفحة 116 - Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold...
الصفحة 289 - Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the twoleaved gates ; and the gates shall not be shut...
الصفحة 257 - My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me : for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
الصفحة 298 - Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg.
الصفحة 299 - WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us ; whereof we are glad.
الصفحة 143 - And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
الصفحة 321 - Hasten, O Bey," exclaimed one of them — " hasten to the diggers, for they have found Nimrod himself. Wallah, it is wonderful, but it is true ! we have seen him with our eyes. There is no God but God ;" and both joining in this pious exclamation, they galloped oft', without further words, in the direction of their tents.
الصفحة 322 - This is not the work of men's hands," exclaimed he, " but of those infidel giants of whom the prophet, peace be with him ! has said that they •were higher than the tallest date tree; this is one of the idols which Noah, peace be with him ! cursed before the flood.
الصفحة 207 - Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria ? Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad ? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah ? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand...