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Common terms and phrasesAahmes Amenhotep ancient antiquity army Asia Asshur Asshurbanapal Asshurnazirpal Assyrian Assyriology Babylon Babylonian bas-reliefs British Museum Calah call'd campaign canal capital century Chaldeans chariots chief civilisation conquered conquest death Diodorus Dynasty earth Egypt Egyptian Egyptian history Elam Elamite empire enemy epoch Erech Esarhaddon Ethiopia Euphrates expedition father Gishban gods Greek hand Herodotus historian hundred Hyksos inhabitants inscriptions Ishtar Khammurabi Kheta king kingdom Kish land language later London lord Manetho Marduk Memphis Mesopotamia modern monarch monuments mountains Nabonidus nations Nile Nineveh Nippur origin Osiris palace papyrus Paris patesi period Persian Pharaoh priests princes probably Psamthek pyramid race Ramses records reign religion river royal ruler Sargon sculptures Semitic Sennacherib Seti Shalmaneser Shirpurla Sippar slave stone successors Syria tablets Tehutimes temple Thebes things thou thousand throne Tiglathpileser Tigris tion tomb took town walls whole writing Popular passagesPage 454 - And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison... Page 468 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest. Page 465 - Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. Page 447 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines, might drink therein. Page 366 - Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. Page 465 - When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: 20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. Page 613 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Page 223 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land... Page 126 - Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like — all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike. Nay, number (itself) in armies importeth not much where the people is of weak courage, for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be. Page 162 - And the LORD shall smite Egypt: He shall smite and heal it; and they shall return even to the LORD, and He shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. References from web pagesJSTOR: The Historians' History of the World. A Comprehensive ... A Selected Index.; THE HISTORIANS' HISTORY OF THE WORLD. By Henry ... Internet Archive: Details: The Historians History Of The World ... Free Books > Biographies & Memoirs > General > The Historians ... History of Science - Henry Smith Williams - 1910 - Vol-02 − Elib.at Image:Theodor Nöldeke in The Historians History of the World.jpg ... Henry Smith Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia THE ORIGIN OF MEDICAL PRACTICE REH Bookshelf - W Catherine II of Russia - Wikiquote Bibliographic information |