The Ancient History of the East: From the Earliest Times to the Conquest by Alexander the Great ... |
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The Ancient History of the East: From the Earliest Times to the Conquest by ... Philip Smith No preview available - 2009 |
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Amasis ancient annals appears Armenia army Aryan Asia Minor Asshur Asshur-bani-pal Assyrian Astyages Babylon Babylonian Berosus bricks called Cambyses capital captives Carians Chaldæan CHAP character chief Chron Cilicia Cimmerians coast conquest Ctesias cuneiform Cyaxares Cyrus Darius deity Diodorus dynasty Egyptian empire Esar-haddon Ethiopia Euphrates feet Five Monarchies Greek Herod Herodotus hieroglyphic inscriptions invasion Jerusalem Judah king of Egypt kingdom land language later legend Lower Egypt Lydians Manetho Medes Media Memphis mentioned Mesopotamia monuments mounds mountains Nabopolassar nations native Nebuchadnezzar Nile Nimrud Nineveh Oppert origin palace Persian Pharaoh Phoenician Phraortes Phrygians plain priests probably Psammetichus Pyramid race Rameses Rameses II Rawlinson records reign religion revolt river royal ruins Sabaco sacred Sargon says Scripture sculptures Scythians seems Semitic Sennacherib Shepherd Sidon Strabo Syria Tanis temple Theban Thebes Thothmes Tigris Tirhakah tombs tradition tribes Turanian Tyre Upper valley walls whole worship writers
Popular passages
Page 490 - 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 : and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Page 358 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 19 - A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Page 284 - He trusted in the Lord God of Israel ; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
Page 301 - 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 573 - 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 271 - 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 543 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 310 - 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 537 - And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.