The Five Empires; an outline of ancient history, 1840James Burns, 1845 - 248 páginas |
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... death . · PAGE 115 CHAPTER XVI . Alexander's Successors . The " four notable horns " -Jews - Septuagint --Anti- ochus Epiphanes - Maccabees - Antiochus stopped by the Romans 122 CHAPTER XVII . Roman , or fourth great Empire . Early ...
... death . · PAGE 115 CHAPTER XVI . Alexander's Successors . The " four notable horns " -Jews - Septuagint --Anti- ochus Epiphanes - Maccabees - Antiochus stopped by the Romans 122 CHAPTER XVII . Roman , or fourth great Empire . Early ...
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... death under the title of Belus , or Bel . The next prince of whom we read was Ninus , whom pagan historians suppose to have lived about two thousand years before Christ . Under him Nineveh became " that great city , " " 2 of which we ...
... death under the title of Belus , or Bel . The next prince of whom we read was Ninus , whom pagan historians suppose to have lived about two thousand years before Christ . Under him Nineveh became " that great city , " " 2 of which we ...
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... death of Sardanapalus . His father Pul , and the people of Nineveh , had repented at Jonah's teaching ; 5 but the whole people soon sunk back into sensuality and sin . Sardanapalus himself " exceeded all his predecessors in sloth and ...
... death of Sardanapalus . His father Pul , and the people of Nineveh , had repented at Jonah's teaching ; 5 but the whole people soon sunk back into sensuality and sin . Sardanapalus himself " exceeded all his predecessors in sloth and ...
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... death , until God was pleased by a stretched - out arm to bring them up out of the house of bondage . Though this for a time weakened the Egyptians , yet they recovered their strength ; and being more skilful than their neighbours in ...
... death , until God was pleased by a stretched - out arm to bring them up out of the house of bondage . Though this for a time weakened the Egyptians , yet they recovered their strength ; and being more skilful than their neighbours in ...
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... death recorded . During the long interval in which the judges ruled , there seems to have been no progress towards those great events which formed the design of Israel's history . Yet it was obvious that the purpose of the law had not ...
... death recorded . During the long interval in which the judges ruled , there seems to have been no progress towards those great events which formed the design of Israel's history . Yet it was obvious that the purpose of the law had not ...
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Página 24 - Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin : and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast Written.
Página 3 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Página 62 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure: Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Página 55 - 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 113 - Therefore the he-goat waxed very great : and when he was strong, the great horn was broken ; and for it came up four notable ones, toward the four winds of heaven.
Página 44 - Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 53 - Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors ; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Página 99 - Artaxerxes' throne. To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear, From Heaven descended to the low-roofed house Of Socrates — see there his tenement — Whom, well inspired, the oracle pronounced Wisest of men; from whose mouth issued forth Mellifluous streams, that watered all the schools Of Academics old and new, with those Surnamed Peripatetics, and the sect Epicurean and the Stoic severe.
Página 29 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men ; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol : and his fame was in all nations round about.
Página 58 - Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.