Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801, Volumen2Isaac Collins and sons, 1803 |
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... arms of Joshua . With respect to customs , manners , arts , sci- ences , and language , these nations may be supposed to have differed widely from each other , according to the different courses of life , which naturally resulted from ...
... arms of Joshua . With respect to customs , manners , arts , sci- ences , and language , these nations may be supposed to have differed widely from each other , according to the different courses of life , which naturally resulted from ...
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... arms . Those who resided in the walled cities and fixed abodes , cultivated the land ; and those who wandered about , grazed cattle , or carried arms ; so that it is easy to discern among them the several distinct classes of merchants ...
... arms . Those who resided in the walled cities and fixed abodes , cultivated the land ; and those who wandered about , grazed cattle , or carried arms ; so that it is easy to discern among them the several distinct classes of merchants ...
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... arms of the Israelites . Thus persecuted by the heavens above , and pressed by Joshua in the rear , they fled as chance directed them . In so general a dispersion great numbers of them would , in all probability , have escaped ; had not ...
... arms of the Israelites . Thus persecuted by the heavens above , and pressed by Joshua in the rear , they fled as chance directed them . In so general a dispersion great numbers of them would , in all probability , have escaped ; had not ...
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... arms , through the political precautions of their tyrannical oppressors . In the midst of their cruel depredations B. C. they received a check from Jonathan , 1095 . who , inspired by a divine impulse , and accompanied by his armour ...
... arms , through the political precautions of their tyrannical oppressors . In the midst of their cruel depredations B. C. they received a check from Jonathan , 1095 . who , inspired by a divine impulse , and accompanied by his armour ...
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... arms . They accordingly pitched their tents on an eminence in front of the Jewish camp , and sent a giant , one Goliath of Gath , to challenge any individual of their enemies to single combat . He presented himself before the ...
... arms . They accordingly pitched their tents on an eminence in front of the Jewish camp , and sent a giant , one Goliath of Gath , to challenge any individual of their enemies to single combat . He presented himself before the ...
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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 - 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 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 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 100 - ... brought water out of the rock, and gave you a law from heaven. 12 Ye provoked him all ways, and desired for yourselves a molten calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy Gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt...
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 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...