Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801, Volumen2Isaac Collins and sons, 1804 |
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... altars , overthrow their images , cut down their groves , and smite them without mercy . " They are said to have compelled their children to pass through fire to the idol Moloch ; to have con- taminated their altars with human ...
... altars , overthrow their images , cut down their groves , and smite them without mercy . " They are said to have compelled their children to pass through fire to the idol Moloch ; to have con- taminated their altars with human ...
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... altars in remem- brance of the three tabernacles , which St. Peter proposed to erect , at the time of our Lord's trans- figuration , on this mountain . Mount Carmel stands on the skirts of the sea , and is the most remarkable headland ...
... altars in remem- brance of the three tabernacles , which St. Peter proposed to erect , at the time of our Lord's trans- figuration , on this mountain . Mount Carmel stands on the skirts of the sea , and is the most remarkable headland ...
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... altars for the celebration of divine worship ; and the whole is cut out of the solid rock . The monument of king Jehoshaphat is divided into several apartments ; one of which contains his tomb , adorned with a stately portico and en ...
... altars for the celebration of divine worship ; and the whole is cut out of the solid rock . The monument of king Jehoshaphat is divided into several apartments ; one of which contains his tomb , adorned with a stately portico and en ...
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... altar . This structure is all cut out of the natural rock . It is eighteen feet high , as many square , and adorned with Ionic columns . On the east- But the most curious and magnificent pieces of antiquity of this kind are the royal ...
... altar . This structure is all cut out of the natural rock . It is eighteen feet high , as many square , and adorned with Ionic columns . On the east- But the most curious and magnificent pieces of antiquity of this kind are the royal ...
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... altar , at the east end , is another stately dome . The nave of the church forms the choir , and in the interior aisles are the places where the most remarkable circumstances of our Saviour's passion were trans- acted ; together with ...
... altar , at the east end , is another stately dome . The nave of the church forms the choir , and in the interior aisles are the places where the most remarkable circumstances of our Saviour's passion were trans- acted ; together with ...
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Abraham accordingly Achish afterwards Almighty altar Antigonus Antiochus Antipater Arabia Archelaus Aristobulus army assembled Assyrian Babylon Babylonians Bacchides began besieged blessing brethren brother calamities captivity caused chief commanded compelled considerable cruelty David defeated dignity divine dreadful Egypt Egyptians enemy erected expiration father favour fortress Galilee governor hastened head Hebrews Herod high-priest holy honour hundred Hyrcan idolatrous Idumea immediately inhabitants invaded Israel Israelites Jacob Jehoshaphat Jerusalem Jewish Jews Jonathan Jordan Joseph Joshua Judah Judas Judea king kingdom land length marched massacred Medes metropolis Midian monarch Moses Mount mountains nation Nebuchadnezzar obtained palace Palestine persons Phasael Philistines pontifical possession priests prince prisoners promised prophet Ptolemy put to death received reign resolved river Romans Rome royal sacred sacrifice Samaria Saul sent Shechem siege Simon solemn sons soon Syria temple thousand throne tion took tribe of Judah tribes troops utmost victory wall whilst worship
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Página 351 - 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
Página 351 - 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...
Página 65 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above ; and by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother ; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Página 79 - And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them ; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived : And Israel said, It is enough ; Joseph my son is yet alive : I will go and see him before I die.
Página 18 - Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
Página 348 - Nebuchadnezzar embellished it, and made it one of the wonders of the world. The most famous works in and about it were, the walls of the city, the temple of Belus, Nebuchadnezzar's palace, the hanging gardens, the banks of the river, the artificial lake, and the canals. The walls were 87 feet thick, 350 feet high, and...
Página 101 - And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river...
Página 348 - ... or convenience. A branch of the Euphrates divided the city into two, running through the midft of it, from north to fouth, over •which, in the very middle of the city, was a bridge, a furlong in length ", or...
Página 76 - And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Página 356 - The joy of this feast was greatly disturbed by a vision, and .still more so by the explication which Daniel gave of it to the king. The sentence written upon the wall imported, that his kingdom was taken from him, and given to the Medes and Persians.