Historical Illustrations of the Old TestamentHenry A. Sumner, 1880 - 237 pages |
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Abydenus according Ahab Amenophis Amer Ancient Monarchies appears assigned Assyrian Assyrian records Babylon Babylonian Berosus Biblical book of Esther Captivity capture CHAPTER character Chemosh chief Compare confirmed Ctesias Cyrop Cyrus Damascus Daniel Darius the Mede deluge Dict dynasty Egypt Egyptian empire Esarhaddon Esth Esther Euphrates Exodus Ezra fact Genesis gods Greek Hebrew Herod Herodotus Hiram Hittites Ibid illustration inscription Israel Israelites Izdubar Jerusalem Jewish Jews Joseph Judæa Judah King of Assyria kingdom land Lenormant Manetho ment mention Mesha Moab Moabite Stone monarch monuments Moses nations Nebuchadnezzar Nineveh Omri palace Palestine Pekah period Persian Phoenician points prince profane history profane sources races Rawlinson's Herodotus reign remarkable royal sacred narrative sacred writers Samaria Sargon satrap Scripture Sennacherib Shishak Sisit Smerdis Smith's Bibl Solomon Syria temple throne tion took tory tradition viii Wilkinson Xerxes xviii
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Page 177 - The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Page 171 - 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 144 - 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.
Page 170 - And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
Page 141 - Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Page 234 - Om[r]i, king of Israel, he oppressed Moab many days, for Chemosh was angry with his l[a]nd. His son succeeded him, and he also said, I will oppress Moab.
Page 142 - ... escape Then upon this Hezekiah there fell the fear of the power of my arms, and he sent out to me the chiefs and the elders of Jerusalem, with thirty talents of gold, and eight hundred talents of silver, and divers treasures, and rich and immense booty...
Page 141 - And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, "I have offended ; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear." And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
Page 111 - But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, "Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods;" Solomon clave unto these in love.
Page 135 - ... captured him and put him to death, while he punished Pekah by mulcting him of a large portion of his dominions, and carrying off vast numbers of his subjects into captivity. It is scarcely necessary to point out how completely this account harmonizes with the scriptural narrative, according to which Pekah and Rezin, having formed an alliance against Ahaz, and having attacked him, Ahaz called in the aid of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, who ' hearkened to him, and . . . went up against Damascus,...