The History of Ancient Europe: With a View of the Revolutions in Asia and Africa. In a Series of Letters to a Young Nobleman, Volumen2H. Maxwell, Columbia-house, 1801 |
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... army , and reduced many of his fortified towns35 ; notwithstanding the precautions he had taken to prevent the approach of the enemy , by desolating his country . Alarmed at this rapid progress , Hezekiah sent the Assyrian monarch a ...
... army , and reduced many of his fortified towns35 ; notwithstanding the precautions he had taken to prevent the approach of the enemy , by desolating his country . Alarmed at this rapid progress , Hezekiah sent the Assyrian monarch a ...
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... army into Syria ; with a view of recovering the frontier towns , which the Assyrian emperors had taken from his predecessors . He accordingly invested Azotus or Ashdod , while his generals subdued the neighbouring country ; and made ...
... army into Syria ; with a view of recovering the frontier towns , which the Assyrian emperors had taken from his predecessors . He accordingly invested Azotus or Ashdod , while his generals subdued the neighbouring country ; and made ...
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... army into Syria . And that youthful commander , whom his father had associated with himself in the supreme power , reduced the gar- 77. 2 Kings , chap . xxiii , ver . 29 , 30. 2 Chron . chap . xxxv . ver . 20 , 21 . 1 78. 2 Chron . chap ...
... army into Syria . And that youthful commander , whom his father had associated with himself in the supreme power , reduced the gar- 77. 2 Kings , chap . xxiii , ver . 29 , 30. 2 Chron . chap . xxxv . ver . 20 , 21 . 1 78. 2 Chron . chap ...
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... army , as that under the king of Baby- lon , retired toward their own frontier , without hazard- ing a battle ; and the redoubted Nebuchadnezzar re- returned to his station before Jerusalem , and resumed the siege of that sacred and ...
... army , as that under the king of Baby- lon , retired toward their own frontier , without hazard- ing a battle ; and the redoubted Nebuchadnezzar re- returned to his station before Jerusalem , and resumed the siege of that sacred and ...
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... army , for the great service he had caused it to serve against Tyre ; until every head was bald , and every shoulder was peeled . " The Tyrians had previously retired , with their most valuable effects , to an island that formed their ...
... army , for the great service he had caused it to serve against Tyre ; until every head was bald , and every shoulder was peeled . " The Tyrians had previously retired , with their most valuable effects , to an island that formed their ...
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Página 39 - 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 2 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations...
Página 39 - ... thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Página 2 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Página 8 - And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
Página 32 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Página 8 - And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died : and Hazael reigned in his stead.
Página 8 - And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel : their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
Página 7 - So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease ? And Elisha said unto.
Página 7 - And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.