Babylon, and Nineveh. [2 pt. A reissue of Babylon and the banks of the Euphrates, and Nineveh and the Tigris].1860 |
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ancient antiquity appearance Arabs Armenia army Asia Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Bagdad banks Benjamin of Tudela Betlis bitumen bricks bridge building caliph CANAL capital captives century Chaldæan channel Christian course Ctesiphon date trees descend desert desolation Diarbekir distance district Divine dwellings east eastern edifices empire Euphrates favour flows formed gardens Greeks height Herodotus Hillah hills hundred feet inhabitants inscriptions Jews Karoon Kerrah Khabour Khoosroo Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurds land Lord Medes ments Mesopotamia miles modern Mohammedan monarch monuments Mosul mounds mountains Nahum nearly neighbourhood Nimroud Nineveh Nisibin occupied palace pass Persian Persian Gulf plain population present prophet region remains remarkable Rich rise river rock Roman ruins scene sculptures seat Shat-el-Arab side spot stone stream Susa temple ten thousand Greeks tent thee thousand Tigris tion tomb tower town traveller tribes Turks Urumiah vast village walls western wind Xenophon
Pasajes populares
Página 163 - THUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have holden, To subdue nations before him ; And I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut...
Página 48 - The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. 11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Página 141 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth: he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Página 69 - And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Página 57 - Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory : and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks...
Página 86 - Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3.
Página 93 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 142 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Página 162 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Página 142 - And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hará, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.