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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesaccording Alyattes ancient appears Arian army Asia Minor Assyrian Astyages Athenians Athens attack Babylon Babylonian Berosus Book called Cambyses Chap character Charon Cilicia Cimmerians coast connexion conquest Croesus Ctesias Cyaxares Cyrus Darius Deioces Delphi dotus doubt dynasty Egypt Egyptian empire Esar-haddon Essay Euphrates expedition fact father favour geographical Greece Greek Grote Gyges Halicarnassus Halys Harpagus Hero Herod Herodotus Hist historian Ibid inhabitants inscriptions Ionians king later Lydians Medes Median mentioned Miletus modern monarch monuments Mure narrative nations native Nineveh notices oracle palace passage perhaps period Persian Pisistratus portion probably race regard reign remarkable revolt river Sardis says Scythians Scythic seems Semitic Sennacherib sent Solon Spartan story Strabo stream Suidas supposed temple thee thou throne Thucyd Thucydides Thurium tion tomb took town tribes Vide infra viii whole words writers Xanthus Xerxes Popular passagesPage 392 - 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 389 - 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. 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. Page 389 - 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 389 - Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house. Page 119 - These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the Barbarians from losing their due meed of glory; and withal to put on record what were their grounds of feud. Page 432 - A drought is upon her waters ; and they shall be dried up : for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Page 269 - For the custom was that when the herald had gone through the whole number of the beautiful damsels, he should then call up the ugliest — a cripple, if there chanced to be one — and offer her to the men, asking who would agree to take her with the smallest marriageportion. Page 398 - And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died... Page 146 - I can count the sands, and I can measure the ocean; I have ears for the silent, and know what the dumb man meaneth; Lo! on my sense there striketh the smell of a shell-covered tortoise; Boiling now on a fire, with the flesh of a lamb, in a cauldron — Brass is the vessel below, and brass the cover above it. Page 389 - At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. Bibliographic information
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