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... temple which was built by Nebuchadnezzar , in honour of the idol god Be- lus . This was called the TOWER OF BELUS . It would appear that Nebuchadnezzar , whose reign com- menced about 605 years B. c . , took the idea of making this ...
... temple which was built by Nebuchadnezzar , in honour of the idol god Be- lus . This was called the TOWER OF BELUS . It would appear that Nebuchadnezzar , whose reign com- menced about 605 years B. c . , took the idea of making this ...
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... temple when he pleased . Diodorus , however , states , that there was originally a statue of Belus , forty feet high , erected on its summit ; and Hero- dotus himself was informed by the Chaldeans , that there formerly stood in the temple ...
... temple when he pleased . Diodorus , however , states , that there was originally a statue of Belus , forty feet high , erected on its summit ; and Hero- dotus himself was informed by the Chaldeans , that there formerly stood in the temple ...
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... Temple of Belus with the situation of this ruin on the western bank , and its distance from the river and the other ruins . This difficulty is not in- superable ; but without identifying the Birs Nemroud with the Temple of Belus , we ...
... Temple of Belus with the situation of this ruin on the western bank , and its distance from the river and the other ruins . This difficulty is not in- superable ; but without identifying the Birs Nemroud with the Temple of Belus , we ...
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... Temple and Tower of Belus , completed , if not commenced by Nebuchad- nezzar . Porter seems to show that three , and part of the fourth original stages of the tower , as described by Diodorus , may be traced in the existing ruins of ...
... Temple and Tower of Belus , completed , if not commenced by Nebuchad- nezzar . Porter seems to show that three , and part of the fourth original stages of the tower , as described by Diodorus , may be traced in the existing ruins of ...
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... temples of the attendant gods of the chief divinity , and also the abodes of the priesthood , with their attendants . Within the quadrangle of two miles and a half , stood the mound and the temple itself , with a large open are ...
... temples of the attendant gods of the chief divinity , and also the abodes of the priesthood , with their attendants . Within the quadrangle of two miles and a half , stood the mound and the temple itself , with a large open are ...
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Seite 54 - 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.
Seite 120 - He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt ; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Seite 119 - O'erflow thy courts: the Light himself shall shine Revealed, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ! But fixed his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own Messiah reigns ! ALEXANDER POPE.
Seite 167 - And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth...
Seite 168 - And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass...
Seite 194 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Seite 64 - No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light. 17 For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
Seite 101 - And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.
Seite 144 - Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Seite 115 - Jehoiakim king of Judah ; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David : and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.