Babylon and the Banks of the EuphratesReligious Tract Society, 1851 - 192 من الصفحات |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abraham Anah ancient Babylon antiquity appearance Arabs Ararat Armenia Asia Babylon Babylonian Bagdad banks Belus Benjamin of Tudela bitumen boats bricks building built caliph camels CANAL capital Castle century Chaldæan channel Chebar Circesium colour course covered Ctesiphon Cyrus date tree descendants desert desolation Diarbekir distance district dwell east eastern Egypt elevated empire erected Euphrates Felujah formed Greeks height Herodotus hill Hillah hundred feet inhabitants Jews Khabour Kharpoot king Kourdistan Lake Lake Van land Lord marshes ments Mesopotamia miles modern Mosul mounds mountains Mujellibe Murad nearly Nebuchadnezzar night Nisibin occupied palace period Persian plain population present prophet reeds region remains remarkable rise river Euphrates Roman ruins scene seat Shammar side snow spot Strabo stream tain temple ten thousand Greeks tents Thapsacus thee thou thousand Tigris tion tomb tower town traveller tribes Turks vast vegetation villages walls western wind Xenophon
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 145 - 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...
الصفحة 38 - 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.
الصفحة 121 - 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.
الصفحة 37 - 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.
الصفحة 49 - 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.
الصفحة 121 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the...
الصفحة 66 - 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.
الصفحة 144 - 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.
الصفحة 68 - Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
الصفحة 37 - 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...