The Old and New Testaments Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations: From the Declensions of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the Time of Christ, Volume 2Middlesex Bookstore, 1815 - Bible |
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Page 343
... Seleucus ; and they divided the whole empire between them . Cassander had Macedon and Greece ; Lysimachus , Thrace , and those parts of Asia as lay upon the Hellespont and the Bosphorus ; Ptolemy , Egypt , Libya , Arabia , Pal- estine ...
... Seleucus ; and they divided the whole empire between them . Cassander had Macedon and Greece ; Lysimachus , Thrace , and those parts of Asia as lay upon the Hellespont and the Bosphorus ; Ptolemy , Egypt , Libya , Arabia , Pal- estine ...
Page 350
... Seleucus had the government of Babylon conferred on him ; who , from this beginning , afterwards grew up to be the greatest of Alexander's successors , as will hereafter be related . Antipater , having thus settled affairs , sent ...
... Seleucus had the government of Babylon conferred on him ; who , from this beginning , afterwards grew up to be the greatest of Alexander's successors , as will hereafter be related . Antipater , having thus settled affairs , sent ...
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... Seleucus governour of Babylon , to join with him , for the aiding Philip 7 . of the kings against Antigonus , and caused the orders of the kings for this purpose to be commu- nicated to them . Their answer hereto was , that they should ...
... Seleucus governour of Babylon , to join with him , for the aiding Philip 7 . of the kings against Antigonus , and caused the orders of the kings for this purpose to be commu- nicated to them . Their answer hereto was , that they should ...
Page 358
... Seleucus upon him . For he having encamped on a plain near the Euphrates , Seleucus , by cutting the banks of the river , over - flooded the place where he lay . But Eumenes , having immediately drawn off his army to an adjoining ...
... Seleucus upon him . For he having encamped on a plain near the Euphrates , Seleucus , by cutting the banks of the river , over - flooded the place where he lay . But Eumenes , having immediately drawn off his army to an adjoining ...
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... Seleucus and Pithon , who were then of his party , joining him , they there concerted together the opera- tions of the next campaign . In the interim a great change happened in Mace- donia . For Olympias , the mother of Alexander , hav ...
... Seleucus and Pithon , who were then of his party , joining him , they there concerted together the opera- tions of the next campaign . In the interim a great change happened in Mace- donia . For Olympias , the mother of Alexander , hav ...
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Page 408 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall...
Page 172 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 84 - ... the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate : let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.
Page 408 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 30 - Who is left among you that saw 'this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now ? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing...
Page 86 - ... wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey...
Page 16 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Page 170 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house ; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Page 16 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks : the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Page 171 - Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense ; And the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.