Antiquities of the Orient Unveiled: Containing a Concise Description of the Remarkable Ruins of King Solomon's Temple, and Store Cities, Together with Those of All the Most Ancient and Renowned Cities of the East, Including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and ShushanTemple Pub. Union, 1875 - 541 pages |
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... mounds of ruins , large patches of barley and wheat may be seen growing . " Therefore shall Zion , for your sake , be ploughed as a field , and Jerusalem become heaps , and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forests ...
... mounds of ruins , large patches of barley and wheat may be seen growing . " Therefore shall Zion , for your sake , be ploughed as a field , and Jerusalem become heaps , and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forests ...
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... mounds of earth and brick . Among the rubbish are found fragments of pottery , glass , marble , and vitrified bricks , many of the bricks bearing inscriptions , while the soil itself is so impregnated with nitre as to destroy all vege ...
... mounds of earth and brick . Among the rubbish are found fragments of pottery , glass , marble , and vitrified bricks , many of the bricks bearing inscriptions , while the soil itself is so impregnated with nitre as to destroy all vege ...
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... mounds , nearly all standing single . The most remarkable of these is the vast ruin called Birs Nimroud - the Temple of Belus . This mound is 198 feet high , and has on its summit a compact mass of brick - work , 37 feet high by 27 ...
... mounds , nearly all standing single . The most remarkable of these is the vast ruin called Birs Nimroud - the Temple of Belus . This mound is 198 feet high , and has on its summit a compact mass of brick - work , 37 feet high by 27 ...
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... mound of the Kasr , -the site of the great palace of Nebu- chadnezzar . This is an irregular square of about 700 yards each way , apparently the old palace platform , on which are still standing portions of the ancient palace or Kasr ...
... mound of the Kasr , -the site of the great palace of Nebu- chadnezzar . This is an irregular square of about 700 yards each way , apparently the old palace platform , on which are still standing portions of the ancient palace or Kasr ...
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... mounds , tens of thou- sands of bricks have been found , all stamped with the combination of characters which reads Nebu- chadnezzar . Stamped bricks are not only found in the ruins of Babylon , but among ruins of towns and cities ...
... mounds , tens of thou- sands of bricks have been found , all stamped with the combination of characters which reads Nebu- chadnezzar . Stamped bricks are not only found in the ruins of Babylon , but among ruins of towns and cities ...
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Page 336 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 220 - And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Page 511 - Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised; there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
Page 80 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, "I have sinned, in that I have betrayed the innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? see thou to that." And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 366 - But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Page 315 - And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven; and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Page 520 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 511 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
Page 510 - For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever : that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
Page 219 - Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth : and he said Sibboleth : for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan : and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.