Babylon Destroyed: Or, The History of the Empire of Assyria;.W. Oliphant, 1827 - 303 من الصفحات |
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... hand , we have an argument drawn from facts on the other , which here presents itself gratuitously . A recent traveller , an exquisite judge of the fine arts , in speaking of the ré- mains of Persepolis , after observing , " that the ...
... hand , we have an argument drawn from facts on the other , which here presents itself gratuitously . A recent traveller , an exquisite judge of the fine arts , in speaking of the ré- mains of Persepolis , after observing , " that the ...
الصفحة 13
... hand . ” " 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 . " There are few who have read this beautiful and mournful elegy - so strongly ...
... hand . ” " 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 . " There are few who have read this beautiful and mournful elegy - so strongly ...
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... hand and their left . + See Appendix , D. Mr Gibbon , whose enmity to revealed truth is so well known , seems to have considered the number of children as the amount of the entire population of Nineveh , for he The walls of the city ...
... hand and their left . + See Appendix , D. Mr Gibbon , whose enmity to revealed truth is so well known , seems to have considered the number of children as the amount of the entire population of Nineveh , for he The walls of the city ...
الصفحة 52
... hand - writing on the wall , and felt his doom in its mystic characters . While the works connected with the embank- ment of the river were in progress , the course of the Euphrates was turned into an artificial lake of immense extent ...
... hand - writing on the wall , and felt his doom in its mystic characters . While the works connected with the embank- ment of the river were in progress , the course of the Euphrates was turned into an artificial lake of immense extent ...
الصفحة 56
... hands of those that labour therein ; but rather let them wonder , - and adore while they wonder , -that the Assy- rian on his restless couch , in his great Babylon , was made an instrument in the Providence of Jehovah of revealing to us ...
... hands of those that labour therein ; but rather let them wonder , - and adore while they wonder , -that the Assy- rian on his restless couch , in his great Babylon , was made an instrument in the Providence of Jehovah of revealing to us ...
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afterwards ages Ahaz ancient antiquity appears arms army Asia Assyrian empire Astyages Babylonians beasts beauty Belshazzar Belus called captivity Chaldean chariots chastisement Chebar chief commanded conjecture conqueror conquest Croesus Cyaxares Cyrus Daniel death desolation destruction divine dominion earth Egypt enemy Esarhaddon Euphrates father gates glory Gobrias gods gold heathen heaven Hebrew Herodotus Hezekiah Hilleh historians holy honour horse hundred idol idolatry immense inhabitants Isaiah Israel Jehoiakim Jehovah Jerusalem Jews Judea king of Assyria king of Babylon king of Judah kingdom land Lord luxury magnificent Medes ment mercy mighty Babylon miles monarch Nabopolassar nations Nearchus Nebuchadnezzar Neriglissar Nimrod Nineveh Ninus occasion once palace Pekah Persian prince prisoners probable profane prophet provinces reign remains river royal ruins sacred Scriptures Semiramis Sennacherib sent siege silver splendour Syria temple thee thou thousand Tigris tion tower troops victory walls whole worship Xenophon Zedekiah
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الصفحة 153 - Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken ; the kingdom is departed from thee ; and they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field : they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
الصفحة 205 - 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.
الصفحة 31 - 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.
الصفحة 154 - 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...
الصفحة 96 - And I will add unto thy days fifteen years ; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria ; and I will defend this city for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.
الصفحة 128 - For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
الصفحة 96 - Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. And I will add unto thy days fifteen years...
الصفحة 108 - The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots ! The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases ; and there is none end of their corpses ; they stumble upon their corpses...
الصفحة 110 - 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.
الصفحة 152 - Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field ; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth : let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.