The History of Antiquity, Volume 3R. Bentley & son, 1879 - History, Ancient |
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according Ahaz Alyattes Amasis Arbaces Ardys army ascended the throne Ashdod Asia Asshur Assurbanipal attack Babylonia Baladan battle Bocchoris brought campaign canon carried Chalah Chaldæans Cimmerians Croesus Ctesias Cyaxares cylinder Damascus defeated Deut Diodorus dominion Egypt Egyptians Elam enemy Esarhaddon Ethiopians Euphrates father feet gates Greeks Gyges Hamath hand Herod Herodotus Hezekiah Hophrah Hosea inhabitants inscription Israel Jehovah Jerem Jeremiah Jerusalem Judah king of Asshur king of Assyria king of Babylon kingdom land Lydians Medes Media Ménant Merodach Merodach Baladan Nabopolassar Napata nations Nebuchadnezzar Necho Nineveh Oppert palace Pharaoh Phenicians Pianchi priests princes prophets Psammetichus rebellion reign river rulers Sabakon Sadyattes Samaria Sardanapalus Sargon says Scoloti Scythians Sennacherib sent Shalmanesar Sidon siege Smith Ssheshonk subjugated successor Syria tells temple Thebes thee thou Tiglath Pilesar Tigris Tirhaka Tnephachtus took tribes tribute Tyre Uzziah viceroy walls warriors worship Yakin
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Page 190 - None shall be weary nor stumble among them ; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken : Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, Their horses...
Page 222 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 81 - Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken : for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Page 134 - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Page 338 - And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the Lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Page 137 - Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Page 39 - The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Page 134 - And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low : and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
Page 396 - And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant...
Page 135 - They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain ; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.