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...Old [[Testament]] period. Even the New Testament opens with a reference to Egypt, for Mary and [[Joseph]] spent a time there with the baby Jesus (&nbsp;Matt ...s co-regency, 67 years in all. The temples he throw of the Chetan built in Egypt and Nubia outshone all others. Sisera, in Merneptab's reign. </p> <p> '''TW

.... In the rainy season a swiftly flowing stream ran from the hills north of Jerusalem through this valley, ending in the [[Dead]] Sea (&nbsp;2 Samuel 15:23; &nbs ...come a star out of Jacob," when the emperor [[Hadrian]] tried to colonize Jerusalem with h </p>

...ra]] (Dowair) plain the pedestal of what must have been a colossal statue. Nebuchadnezzar is the forerunner of antichrist, to whose "image" whosoever will not offer ...the same general plan. Every brick yet taken from it bears the impress of Nebuchadnezzar. Borsippa would seem to have been a suburb of ancient Babylon. </p>

...nquest, when the prophecy, "There shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt," &nbsp;Ezekiel 30:13, was fulfilled. </p> <p> (In the summer of 1881, a la ...no more a prince independent and ruling the whole land. [[Cambyses]] made Egypt a province of the Persian empire; since the second Persian conquest, 2,000

...24:17); but [[Adrian]] destroyed them, and built a pagan city, AEia, where Jerusalem had stood. "Captivity of the land" (&nbsp;Judges 18:30) refers to the captu ...d by the Romans. According to Josephus, 1,100,000 perished at the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, and nearly 100,000 captives were scattered among the provinces an

...[[Elnathan]] of Achbor, and men with him, who brought [[Urijah]] back from Egypt, the [[Egyptian]] king allowing his vassal Jehoiakim to do so. Jehoiakim "s ...one mourned his death, and his body was thrown on the garbage dump outside Jerusalem, as if it were the carcass of an unclean animal (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 36:6; &

...Jehoiachin]] in the 37th year of his captivity, 26 years after the fall of Jerusalem; for no mention is made of him (&nbsp;Jeremiah 52:31). </p> <p> '''2.''' So ...ctory: one of Jeremiah, who said that Zedekiah should see and yet not see, Nebuchadnezzar with his eyes, &nbsp;Jeremiah 32:4-5; &nbsp;Jeremiah 34:3; and the other of

...er to humble the world power in the height of its impious arrogance; first Nebuchadnezzar, whose coming hypochondriacal exile among the beasts Daniel foretells with ...od (4:1-37). </p> <p> A succeeding king, Belshazzar, failing to learn from Nebuchadnezzar’s experience, brought about his nation’s destruction. In his reign Baby

...ls." The king of the forest now ranges over the site of that Babylon which Nebuchadnezzar built for his own glory. And the temple of Belus, the greatest work of man, ...e district forty years after Christ. On the occasion of the gathering at [[Jerusalem]] in &nbsp;Acts 2:9-11 mention is made of the Parthians, Medes and Elamites

...also, through the false prophets, expected restoration with Jehoiachin and Nebuchadnezzar's overthrow. This accounts for the [[Babylonian]] king inflicting so terrib ...pyist). He reigned but three months, B.C. 599, when Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar, and the great captivity of Judah was accomplished. Jehoiachin was carried

...personified as an ideal man shall be in Messianic days spiritually born in Jerusalem. Her help to Solomon's temple foretypified this, and the [[Syrophoenician]] ...ian]] isles, ivory to adorn the benches or the waists of the galleys. From Egypt, linen, ornamented with different colours for sails, or flags, or ensigns.

...t threat to Israel's welfare (&nbsp;Ezekiel 28:20-26 ) </p> <p> G. Against Egypt because of her pride and deceit (&nbsp;Ezekiel 29:1-32:32 ) </p> <p> IV. Th ...shall he not see it though he shall die there"; because he was blinded by Nebuchadnezzar before arriving there (&nbsp;Jeremiah 52:11). Also &nbsp;Ezekiel 18:20, "th

...or, in order to conciliate the legitimate party; perhaps Nabonahit married Nebuchadnezzar's daughter or granddaughter (Nitocris) to strengthen his throne, and by her ...ly, it represents the ancient palace, coeval with Babylon itself, of which Nebuchadnezzar speaks in his inscriptions as adjoining his own more magnificent residence.

Nebuchadnezzar; Nebuchadrezzar <ref name="term_6564" /> ...tion of Nebuchadnezzar, except one fragment of a few broken lines found in Egypt. </p> Literature. <p> T.G. Pinches, <i> The New [[Testament]] in the Light

...igantic but faded mural decoration; while the plateau on the heights round Jerusalem and on to the north lies bare in whitish grey. Galilee has more woodland, a ...but plants do not need shelter from the frost. The average fall of rain at Jerusalem is 61.6 inches; whereas the London mean is only 25. [[Rain]] comes most fro

...h (520-519 B.C.) urged these returning captives to rebuild their Temple in Jerusalem. The Temple was completed in 515 B.C., the date which traditionally marks t ...Jews under Ezra, Zerubbabel, and Nehemiah, and returned along with them to Jerusalem (&nbsp;Jeremiah 50:4,5,17-20,33-35 ). </p> <p> Large numbers had, however,

...elation to [[Israel]] </i> , 1908; Sayce, <i> The Religions of [[Ancient]] Egypt and Babylonia </i> , 1903. Literature: <i> Assyrian and Babylonian Literatu ...t followed the death of Cambyses, it was under impostors who claimed to be Nebuchadnezzar, the son of Nabunahid.' </p>

...should the substructure of Nebuchadnezzar's throne be built, implying that Nebuchadnezzar's throne should be raised on the downfall of Pharaoh's throne: &nbsp;Jeremi ...rder of [[Gedaliah]] (b.c. 586), Johanan took the remnant of the Jews from Jerusalem, including Jeremiah, to Tahpanhes. </p> <p> F. Ll. Griffith. </p>

...'times of the Gentiles' — running on from the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar to the restoration of the Jews whenruled over by the Son of David. The pres ...ew the history of Babylon, the Medes, Persia, Greece, the [[Ptolemies]] of Egypt, and the Seleuccids of Syria. He then pointed to an immediate future when G

...f the sequence of events from the time of the Judges down to the Fall of [[Jerusalem]] is correct. Of late years we have received welcome light on the dates of ...istoric dates. Even the conservative system of Professor Breasted (Ancient Egypt) places the first certain date of Egyptian history, namely, the introductio

...A.D. 117-118, to commemorate this day ( '''''יוםטוריינוס''''' ). He makes Nebuchadnezzar stand for Trajan, Nineveh for Antioch, Assyria for Syria, Arphaxad for the ...rigin. But they agree in these points: [[Proper]] names are often omitted. Jerusalem is the scene of action, the wars being those of the Maccabees. Judith is a

Nebuchadnezzar The Great <ref name="term_81178" /> ...standing was restored to him, and he recovered his royal dignity. </p> <p> Nebuchadnezzar died, [[A.M.]] 3442, after having reigned forty-three years. Megasthenes, q

...aim. Many towns in Judah were captured also. (Cf. Breasted’s <em> Hist. of Egypt </em> , 530.) How deep the enmity between Israel and Judah had become may b ...te views are projected, such as a small group that escaped from slavery in Egypt, joining other groups, gradually infiltrated Canaan and took on many of its

...civil, not a sacerdotal, office. The [[Hebrew]] for "over ( '''''Al''''' ) Jerusalem" may mean simply "concerning." </p> <p> '''13.''' &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:23. </p ...’ who, together with Hanani, was appointed by Nehemiah to the ‘charge over Jerusalem’ (&nbsp; Nehemiah 7:2 ). <strong> 10. </strong> The friend of Daniel, who

...Mohammedans, in a word, almost all nations have, by turns, seized and held Jerusalem. To the Jews only hath God refused the possession of this small tract of gr ...writer hath affirmed, that it is long since any Jew has been settled near Jerusalem: scarcely can they purchase there six feet of land for a burying-place. "In

...d, leaving his son, Jehoiachin, to become Nebuchadnezzar's prisoner when [[Jerusalem]] fell in 597 B.C. People from the upper classes and skilled workmen were a ...the chapters are then referred to another oppressor, either [[Assyria]] or Egypt, whom the Chaldæans are raised up to punish; and ch. 3 is ascribed to an

...ey were, however, both of them at last compelled to follow the people into Egypt, where Jeremiah soon afterward died; on which Baruch retired to Babylon, wh ...g others who are tempted. Baruch was carried with Jeremiah by Johanan into Egypt (&nbsp;Jeremiah 43:6). The apocryphal book of Baruch is evidently one of la

...ys Of The [[Flood]] Rains)'' years will I ... bring again the captivity of Egypt." The [[Persian]] [[Cambyses]] gave the finishing blow to No-Amon's greatne ...unishment of the remote Thebes, which could not be accomplished till Lower Egypt was prostrate. The Theban Ammon was often entitled ‘Amen-Rç, king of t

...<i> Primitive [[Christianity]] </i> , ii [1909] 227f.; G. A. Smith. <i> [[Jerusalem]] </i> , ii. [1908] 563. </p> <p> W. [[Cruickshank]] </p> ...Lord concerning [[Joseph]] and his family, that Israel might be led out of Egypt? Who can question that the famine in the days of [[Elisha]] was the same, w

...r of Henry Drisler </i> , p. 31—‘Twelve kings set out from Persia to go to Jerusalem,’ etc.), or thirteen (Bar Bahlul in Hyde, <i> Rcl. Vet. Pers. </i> [Note: ...among them, they might be among those who "waited for redemption," not at Jerusalem, but in a distant part of the world. The <em> Parsees, </em> who were nearl

...cruelty which he in a still worse degree showed at Jerusalem's capture by Nebuchadnezzar. &nbsp;Amos 1:6; &nbsp;Amos 1:11, and &nbsp;Joel 4:19, refer to the same ca ...tivity of Jacob as having occurred. He probably refers to the captivity by Nebuchadnezzar, B.C. 688. It must have been uttered, at some time, in the five years which

...contest was renewed between the [[Egyptians]] and the [[Chaldeans]] under Nebuchadnezzar, and the result was specially disastrous to the Philistines. The "old hatre ...nes,’ has disappeared. </p> <p> When [[Cambyses]] made his expedition into Egypt (b.c. 525), Gaza opposed him (Polyb. xvi. 40). The [[Sidonian]] king Eshmun

...y further taxes (in 701 BC; &nbsp;2 Kings 18:7). When Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem, [[Hezekiah]] repented of his rebellion and offered to pay whatever the Ass ...ed their conquests westward; and, leading their forces against the king of Egypt, as an invader of their right of conquest, they beat him at Carchemish, and

...s control, would be eliminated as He came to reign over all the world from Jerusalem. </p> <p> Outline </p> <p> I. God Is Just (&nbsp;Zechariah 1:1-2:13 ) </p> ...ils to be removed. Ch. 14 gives another apocalyptic vision of the siege of Jerusalem. The onslaught is terrible, and the discomfiture of her enemies is wrought

Or Nebuchadrezzar Nebuchadnezzar <ref name="term_67874" /> ...ide he is able to abase." &nbsp;Daniel 2 — &nbsp; Daniel 4 . </p> <p> Thus Nebuchadnezzar learnt to honour the God who had made him the head of gold. How long he sur

...sp; Lamentations 4:1 vividly pictures the horrors of the siege and fall of Jerusalem and places part of the blame for the judgment on the immoral prophets and p ...e book on the Black Fast (9th of Ab) the anniversary of the destruction of Jerusalem. In the Greek OT and the other versions Lam. is attached to the prophecies

...h 11:2; &nbsp;Isaiah 27:12; &nbsp;Isaiah 35:10; &nbsp;Isaiah 54:7-11. Also Jerusalem shall be the religious center of the nations, amidst universal peace, the L ...e destruction of the temple (B.C. 588) by Nebuzar-adan, who was captain of Nebuchadnezzar's body-guard (&nbsp;2 Kings 25:8-21 ). </p> <p> The kingdom maintained a se

...tivity and provided them with substantial economic opportunities. </p> <p> Nebuchadnezzar was the greatest king of the Neo-Babylonian Period and the last truly great

...alamity; and many Jews under Johanan, fearing Babylon's vengeance, fled to Egypt, forcing Jeremiah with them (&nbsp;Jeremiah 41:18). </p> <p> '''2.''' &nbsp ...r of the prophet Zephaniah (&nbsp;Zephaniah 1:1), the third an official in Jerusalem who opposed Jeremiah (&nbsp;Jeremiah 38:1-6), and the fourth a priest in th

...hree extant versions of his words." The traditions of Greece, Babylon, and Egypt confirm the Scripture account of the longevity of the patriarchs. [[Sprung] ...becomes a Roman province. In 63Judaea is subjected to Rome. </p> <p> In 30 Egypt becomes a Roman province. </p> <p> 40 Herod is appointed by Rome king of Ju

...to whom they paid tribute (cf. Breasted’s <em> [[Ancient]] [[Records]] of Egypt </em> , ii. 213). </p> <p> In the reign of Amenophis iii. (about b.c. 1400) ...e represented as faithfully on their own monuments as they are on those of Egypt, so that we cannot accuse the Egyptian artists of caricaturing their enemie

...ts hatched, owing to neglect of the injuries. </p> <p> The third plague of Egypt (&nbsp;Exodus 8:16 ) is called one of <strong> lice </strong> , but the mar ...;" the lepers, for example, of the huts near the [[Zion]] gate of modern [[Jerusalem]] are ''Elephantissiacs'' . ''See '' [[Leprosy]] ''.'' </p> <p> The disease

...esert, suggests that while New Gaza was built by the seashore, the road to Egypt passed the inland and at least comparatively deserted Old Gaza. This view, ...favorable for chariots, Robinson (2:748) found an ancient road direct from Jerusalem to Gaza through the wady Musurr, now certainly without villages. </p> <p> T

...God with songs of rejoicing. Still all this is ministering to the glory of Jerusalem. Israel is exalted in the honour shown to her God. The Palestinian <i> Hokh ...and in this language about one half of it has recently been discovered in Egypt and published. It is one of the works that give us a vivid idea of the Wisd

...ow being that Egypt as well as [[Judaea]] was subject to the Persians. But Egypt was an unwilling vassal; and as in earlier times, when threatened by Assyri

...s of Greek-speaking [[Jewish]] [[Christians]] who had been forced out of [[Jerusalem]] after the execution of [[Stephen]] (&nbsp;Acts 8:1; &nbsp;Acts 9:1-2; &nb ...f Solomon. When [[Baasha]] of Israel built a fort at [[Ramah]] threatening Jerusalem, Asa of Judah enticed the king of Damascus, “Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimm

...which now reigns over Idumea; and the information which Seetzen derived at Jerusalem respecting it is of similar import. He was told, that at the distance of tw ...reat. Just before the siege under Titus 20,000 Idumeans were admitted into Jerusalem and filled it bloodshed and rapine. Muslim misrule finally destroyed Edom's

...o Egypt. The people, feeling Jehoiakim's heavy taxation for the tribute to Egypt (&nbsp;2 Kings 23:35), lamented for their favorite in spite of his faults. ...onths, b.c. 610. Pharaoh-necho sent him a prisoner loaded with chains into Egypt, and there he died, &nbsp;Jeremiah 22:11-12, and his brother Jehoiakim beca

...is clue to the melting of the snows in the Armenian mountains. </p> <p> [[Nebuchadnezzar]] (Abyden., Fr. 8) controlled the inundation by turning the water through s ...the dominion of the Hebrews extended so far; but it would appear that even Egypt, under [[Pharaoh]] Necho, made conquests to the western bank of the Euphrat

...(8) Books [[Xi., Xii., Xiii]] and XIV. were written by a Jew resident in Egypt, who, however, “lived in Christian times, and is acquainted with some Chr ...certain sections of which were probably written before the destruction of Jerusalem. Criticism, however, has not arrived at any complete consensus of opinion a

...h chains, and sent him into Egypt. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 36:4; Then coming to Jerusalem, he set up Eliakim, or Jehoiakim, Josiah's first-born, in his place. [[Carc <p> We read of [[Pharaoh]] Neeho, king of Egypt, &nbsp;2 Kings 23:29. Probably the name of Necho was added to that of Phara

...o enjoy after the pilgrimage of life; its holy city was the figure of the "Jerusalem above;" and Zion, with its solemn and joyful services, represented that "hi ...e Benefactor. It lay midway between the oldest world kingdoms, on one side Egypt and Ethiopia, on the other Babylon, Assyria, and India; then it had close b

...us 20:8-11 , and also to commemorate their deliverance from the bondage of Egypt, &nbsp;Deuteronomy 5:15 . </p> <p> "A Sabbath day's journey" was reckoned t ...ved (ii. 59, vii. 23, viii. 33). A stray papyrus-leaf discovered in middle Egypt in 1911, which appears to be a portion of a prayer-book that must have been

...nbsp;2 Chronicles 12:3) as those of the preceding invader Shishak, through Egypt, into Judah. </p> ...n by Jehovah, and Asa took much spoil. &nbsp; 2 Chronicles 14:9-15 . See [[Egypt]] </p>

...rnacle" to Jerusalem, where they remained till they were carried away by [[Nebuchadnezzar]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 24:13 ). </p> ...e city's role in post-exilic Israel. The Gibeonites assisted in rebuilding Jerusalem's walls (&nbsp;Nehemiah 3:7 ). Nehemiah's list of the returning exiles also

...studious, or the pride of the wealthy. The rage for literature extended to Egypt and to Spain. In the former country, the Fatimites collected a library of a ...Hadjar, i.e. rock. Between the gulfs of [[Suez]] and Akabah; Palestine and Egypt are its northern boundary. The desert of mount [[Sinai]] (Burr et tur Sinai

...ve results were produced by magical rites. </p> <p> (Even the magicians of Egypt could imitate the plagues sent through Moses only so long as they had previ ...e believed Balaam's powers to be: "Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:

...p;Galatians 3:17). God will bring them back to a bondage as bad as that in Egypt, but shortened by the ''40'' years' sojourn in the desert for discipline. A ...is period is explained as made up of 7 1 / 2 years at [[Hebron]] and 33 at Jerusalem an explanation which implies that, apart from some odd months, the 40 years

...e raids helped to weaken Judah in the days of Babylon’s final assault on [[Jerusalem]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 24:1-2), and so made its own destruction inevitable (&nbsp ...y [[Alexander]] the Great, and were in obedience to the kings of Syria and Egypt successively, and finally to the Romans. There is a probability, also that

...ws, in violation of God's prohibition (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 17:16), looked to Egypt for horses and chariots (&nbsp;Isaiah 31:1; &nbsp;Isaiah 36:9; &nbsp;Psalms ...an]] sects in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. St. Paul was escorted from Jerusalem to [[Antipatris]] by 200 foot-soldiers, 70 horsemen (ἱππεῖς), and 2

...ction of the temple, and was transmitted till the time of the overthrow of Jerusalem. It was indeed sometimes interrupted, during the reign of the idolatrous ki ...came upon Elisha" (&nbsp;2 Kings 3:15); [[Gilgal]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 4:38); [[Jerusalem]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 22:14). "Singing men and women" were at David's court (&nb

...f Egypt and its king on coins of [[Augustus]] struck after the conquest of Egypt. "A habitation of dragons" expresses utter desolation, as venomous snakes a ...s of foreign countries who have been taking their places in the palaces of Jerusalem, but now are cast out, and the blessing of GOD has taken their place. </p>

...is to stave off the danger from the east by alliance with [[Damascus]] or Egypt. [[Sennacherib]] assumes that this will be the policy of [[Hezekiah]] (&nbs ...n to procure for them consideration from the rulers of Western Asia and of Egypt. </p>

...and Gentile (&nbsp;Acts 15:1-35 ). The compromise solution achieved at the Jerusalem [[Council]] later proved ineffective, and to this day the church continues ...law of the letter from Mount Sinai—the law of the spirit from the heavenly Jerusalem. This festival originally embraced the whole season of fifty days from East

...ophet. Beginning with Jer 37, the story of the prophet during the siege of Jerusalem and after the destruction of the city is reported, and in connection with t

...e, and cruelty had afterwards to be punished. Judgements were to fall upon Egypt, the Philistines, Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Elam, and Bab <li> ch. 45. <p> In Egypt, after an interval, Jeremiah is supposed to have added three sections, viz.

...olumns and fragments; in the middle of the plain, on Sennacherib's road to Egypt, where he was marching, according to Robinson. Rather it answers to the gre ...yer as late as 1150 B.C. on the basis of a cartouche of [[Rameses]] III of Egypt. </p> <p> The biblical account of Sennacherib's conquest of Lachish in 701

...in Lower Egypt (Korte, p. 189; Shaw, p. 123). Dates are still gathered in Egypt in the middle of this month (Thomson, 2:176). The trees till this period re

...or it. All they gained by forcing Jeremiah and Baruch to accompany them to Egypt was that Jeremiah there under the Spirit foretold their doom and that of [[ ...nan at their head, notwithstanding, the warnings of Jeremiah, retired into Egypt. </p> <p> 4. The first-born son of Josiah, king of Judah. &nbsp;1 Chronicle

...al between Ezra himself and Seraiah, put to death 150 years before Ezra by Nebuchadnezzar. In Exodus 6 the sons of three of Kohath's sons are given, but not of [[Heb ...genealogy in their several families, the originals of which were lodged at Jerusalem, to be occasionally consulted. These authentic monuments, during all their

...ul vassals of Darius. After the conquest of Gaza, the conqueror marched to Jerusalem. The high priest Jaddua, being warned of God in a vision, hung the city wit ...itans]] solicited his protection. At the close of the siege he set out for Jerusalem, and was met outside by the entire population, with the high priest at thei

...cenaries, and maintained himself, perhaps in a forced co-regency, in Lower Egypt until the third year of Amasis, when he was defeated and slain. </p> <p> F. &nbsp;Jeremiah 37:5&nbsp;Jeremiah 46:17&nbsp; Jeremiah 44:26-30[[Egypt]]

...probably took the ark with them to [[Babylon]] after their destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC (&nbsp;2 Kings 24:13). There is no record of what happened to it ...they at last were reputed to be deities. Hence in the ancient mythology of Egypt, there were precisely eight gods; and the ark was esteemed an emblem of the

...f the [[Roads]] </i> , pp. 286, 305). Those Jews who had had their home in Jerusalem were compelled after a.d. 70 to live after the manner of their brethren of ...support of the Temple-worship, and at the great feasts made pilgrimages to Jerusalem from all parts of the world (&nbsp;Acts 2:10-11 ). They soon lost the use o

...e Levites, and the city, the temple <i> not </i> being built in the future Jerusalem:see TEMPLE,EZEKIEL'S). The position of each tribe is duly stated. The condi ...<p> It may be noted that Daniel, fourteen years after his deportation from Jerusalem, is mentioned by (&nbsp;Ezekiel 14:14 ) along with Noah and Job as distingu

...ich Xerxes' reign takes 21 years. [[Thirteen]] years after Ezra's going to Jerusalem, 457 B.C., it was found that a civil as well as an ecclesiastical head was ...ich formed part of his empire. He took [[Babylon]] from Belshazzar, son of Nebuchadnezzar; and he put in his place Kiresch, who by us is called Cyrus. Some Persian h

...ple, &nbsp;Ezekiel 22:18; &nbsp;Ezekiel 20:22; also a place of torment, as Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace, &nbsp;Daniel 3:6; &nbsp;Daniel 3:11 . On the last we may r ...2:1, </p> <p> '''a refining furnace''' , &nbsp;Proverbs 17:3, </p> <p> '''Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, a large furnace built like a brick-kiln''' , &nbsp;Daniel 3:22-2

...and desert country along the southern course of the river Jordan, east of Jerusalem; that which by St. Matthew is called the wilderness of Judea, being describ ...at Caesarea on the coast. Judea was little frequented by our Lord, except Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and [[Bethany]] (compare &nbsp;John 7:1 for the reason in part)

...er 70 ad. In the time of Pompey, to which Graetz assigns the book, neither Jerusalem nor the temple was destroyed. Nor was there any destruction of either durin ...<p> 3. The son of Zabdai; he repaired (B.C. 446) that part of the walls of Jerusalem between the north-east angle of [[Zion]] and Eliashib's house (&nbsp;Nehemi

...stration and better understanding of the New Testament, as of the Old; the Jerusalem Chaldee dialect, in which they are written, being the vulgar language of th ...r has useless and undignified additions. A third translation, known as the Jerusalem Targum, has also some of thesame additions. </p>

...Egypt </i> , and <i> [[Ancient]] [[Records]] </i> ; Budge, <i> History of Egypt </i> ; Rawlinson, <i> Ancient </i> <i> Monarchies </i> ; Rogers, <i> Babylo

...1:6); ‘When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt’ (&nbsp;Hosea 11:1). </p> <p> The NT greatly develops this doctrine. It t ...ocalities as was worship in the temple, whether on Mount [[Gerizim]] or in Jerusalem, but is centered on Christ the Truth. </p> <p> John goes beyond this idea a

...ah 2:12-13; &nbsp;4:6-7 ). The exodus from the exile, like the exodus from Egypt, was accompanied with miracles (&nbsp;Isaiah 11:11-16 ). The solution to th ...&nbsp;Zechariah 14:1-21 ). Ezra recognized the people who had returned to Jerusalem as members of the remnant, but in danger of re-enacting the sins of the pas

....C.]] (80 years almost after Zerubbabel's first expedition from Babylon to Jerusalem), and Nehemiah 445 [[B.C.,]] who rebuilt the city wall and restored the civ

...vination to decide whether he should attack Jerusalem or Rabbah the first. Jerusalem's fall should be followed by that of Rabbah ''(Compare Josephus, Ant. 10:9, ...nites (&nbsp; Amos 1:14 ), and such it continued to be down to the time of Nebuchadnezzar, who, if we may judge from the prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel (&nbsp; J

...l prosperity disappeared. Lying between the three rival empires of Arabia, Egypt, and Syria, it lost its ancient independence; the course of trade was diver ...l prosperity disappeared. Lying between the three rival empires of Arabia, Egypt, and Syria, it lost its ancient independence; the course of trade was diver

...to the Gentiles, which took place at the scattering of the disciples from Jerusalem (&nbsp;Matthew 21:43), to be restated at Christ's second advent, when Israe

...asily. Daniel the Archimagus, his venerable friend, who warned the haughty Nebuchadnezzar, that "head of gold," or founder of the Babylonian empire, that it should b ...e kingdoms of the earth, and He hath charged me to build Him an house at [[Jerusalem]] which is in Judah ... He is the God." Smith's Bible Dictionary (B.F. West

...Ahaz. </p> <p> 19. Son of [[Maaseiah]] who repaired part of the wall of [[Jerusalem]] in the time of Nehemiah. &nbsp;Nehemiah 3:23-24. (B.C. 446-410). </p> <p> ...0 </strong> . &nbsp; Nehemiah 3:23 , one of those who repaired the wall of Jerusalem. <strong> 21 </strong> .&nbsp; Nehemiah 7:7 (called Seraiah, &nbsp; Ezra 2:

...tichus I (664-610) after a 29-year siege as reported by Herodotus. Under [[Nebuchadnezzar]] (604-562 B.C.), [[Babylon]] soon captured this territory and took the kin ...l [[Tartan]] under Sargon (716 B.C.), to counteract Hezekiah's league with Egypt (&nbsp;Isaiah 20:1). So strongly did the Assyrians fortify it that it stood

...miah 25:20), and [[Nebuchadnezzar]] who overran their cities on his way to Egypt (Jeremiah 47), and finally by [[Alexander]] the Great, as foretold (&nbsp;Z ...their land, lest "the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt." &nbsp;Exodus 13:17. Thenceforward, during the whole period of Old [[Testa

...ce, and the privilege of sending the Temple contribution and firstlings to Jerusalem, which even Roman governors had at times interdicted (ib. 16:2, 3), were as

...tes, who escaped when [[Jerusalem]] was destroyed. Thence, he proceeded to Egypt, and, either on the way thither , or on the return, [[Nebuzaradan]] again p ...ar's army, and the chief officer of his household. He managed the siege of Jerusalem, and made himself master of the city, while his sovereign was at [[Riblah]]

...miles north northwest of Jerusalem. </p> <p> 6. Name of “kingdoms” that [[Nebuchadnezzar]] of [[Babylon]] threatened (&nbsp;Jeremiah 49:28-33 ). Apparently, small n ...lso in southern Judah (&nbsp;Joshua 15:25). </p> <p> '''4.''' A city N. of Jerusalem, where the Benjamites resided after the return from Babylon (&nbsp;Nehemiah

...the [[Samaritans]] applied by petition, desiring that the rebuilding of [[Jerusalem]] might be stopped. What the motives were which they made use of to prevail ...; Ezekiel 29-32; comp. Newton, On the Prophecies, 1:357). (See [[Cyrus]]). Egypt was subdued, according to Ctesias, through treachery; according to Panteenu

...was of course the most commonly used. But after the [[Saracens]] conquered Egypt, in the seventh century, the communication between that country and the peo ...for writing upon, appears to have been the papyrus, a reed very common in Egypt and other places, and still found in [[Sicily]] and Chaldea. From this come

...ey continued subject to the later kings of Judea till the destruction of [[Jerusalem]] by the Romans. [[Josephus]] informs us that 20,000 of them were summoned ...from north to south, the most commodious channel of communication between Jerusalem and her dependencies on the Red Sea, through the continuous valleys of el-G

...adth of thy land, [[O]] Immanuel," </p> <p> &nbsp;Isaiah 8:8 . The king of Egypt is also styled by Ezekiel, "a great eagle, with great wings, and many feath ...."And the Lord is doing so now, in bringing up all his redeemed out of the Egypt of sin and death in this world. But the most beautiful part of the represen

...sailants in flank. We learn from the history of Tacitus, that the walls of Jerusalem, at the time of its being attacked by the Romans, were built in this manner ...nd enjoining upon all males attendance yearly at the three great feasts at Jerusalem, made war outside Palestine almost impossible. </p> <p> [[Religion]] too tr

...scapes harm (chap. 6). Other miracles give Daniel the ability to interpret Nebuchadnezzar's dream (chap. 2), and the miraculous writing on Belshazzar's wall (chap. 5 ...&nbsp; John 10:24-27 &nbsp; 20:29,31 . The deceptions of the magicians in Egypt, and of false prophets in ancient and in modern times, &nbsp;Deuteronomy 13

...rebellion, he sent them into Thebais, the most remote southern province of Egypt, where he assigned them lands. </p> <p> Alexander, after defeating Darius i ...; [[Cassander]] in the W. Macedon, Thessaly, Greece; [[Ptolemy]] in the S. Egypt, Cyprus, etc.; [[Lysimachus]] in the N. Thrace, Cappadocia, and the norther

...rian]] (a.d. 117-138), writing to the [[Consul]] Servianus on the state of Egypt, says: ‘There is no ruler of a synagogue of Jews, no Samaritan, no [[Pres ...ool according to his folly, making the sinner's sin his own punishment. In Egypt books containing magic formulae belonged exclusively to the king, the pries

...spective between versus 7,8. The first seven verses pronounce a woe upon [[Jerusalem]] for oppression within her walls. Her princes preyed like lions upon their ...aniah 3:9 , &nbsp;Zephaniah 3:10 ). These will not be compelled to come to Jerusalem to worship Yahweh (&nbsp;Isaiah 2:2; &nbsp;Micah 4:1 ); they may worship Hi

...to what took place in the reign of Zedekiah, when [[Nebuchadnezzar]] took Jerusalem and burned the sanctuary (2 Kings 25). The other remark of this learned his ...smodeus on being overcome flees to Egypt (8:3) and that there were Jews in Egypt who remained loyal to their ancestral faith and were nevertheless promoted

...(in ''Opp.'' 4); Bede, ''Expositio'' (in ''Works, 9,'' 404) [[Tanchum]] of Jerusalem, ''Commentaire'' (ed. Munk, Paris, 1843. 8vo): Abarbanel, Commentarius (ed.

...estroyed, and though their territory had been the battlefield of Syria and Egypt '''''—''''' still preserved their nationality, still worshipped from Shec

...s, a practice which illustrates the command to Ezekiel to draw a plan of [[Jerusalem]] upon a tils or clay brick (&nbsp;Ezekiel 4:1 , see the elaborate note by ...ud. The [[Babylonians]] used to record astronomical observations on tiles. Nebuchadnezzar's buildings superseded those of his predecessors; hence, most of the Babylo

...and Babylon's' sudden supremacy under Nebuchadnezzar over both Assyria and Egypt: all these notices in Kings accord with independent pagan history and inscr ...ealth from the accession of Solomon till the subjugation of the kingdom by Nebuchadnezzar and the [[Babylonians]] (apparently a period of about four hundred and fift

...erpent-charming (&nbsp; Psalms 58:5 ). This art, as now found in India and Egypt, was also denominated by the word <em> lâchash </em> (&nbsp; Psalms 58:5

...0:3); in the reign of Jehoiakim, one was proclaimed for "all the people in Jerusalem, and all who came thither out of the cities of Judah," when the prophecy of

...his annals records that in his 37th year he. fought against [[Amasis]] in Egypt (cf. &nbsp; Jeremiah 46:13-26 , &nbsp; Ezekiel 29:2-20 ). For his relations <p> '''Nebuchadrez'zar.''' ''See '' [[Nebuchadnezzar]] ''.'' </p>

...complished, first, in the time of Apries; and secondly, in the conquest of Egypt by the Persians. </p>

...14). The establishment of nascent Judaism and the return and rebuilding of Jerusalem testify to the graciousness of God and his faithfulness in all generations.

...nce shows the correctness of the [[Hebrew]] poet. In Daniel we read that [[Nebuchadnezzar]] dwelt with the OREDIA. We need not suppose that he was banished to the de ...; &nbsp;Zechariah 9:9 ). Isaiah described an unusual caravan on the way to Egypt including young donkeys and camels. The older donkeys would have been the m

...ns on their excessive multiplication. Neither was the movement confined to Egypt. Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and more especially the region of Mount Sinai, s

..., a Moabite, who took chief part in seeking to prevent the rebuilding of [[Jerusalem]] (&nbsp;Nehemiah 2:19; &nbsp;4:1; &nbsp;6:1 ). </p> ...assed through the land of Moab in returning from Petra in 1818 (Travels in Egypt, etc. [1822, 8vo; 1847, 12mo], chapter 8; see also Legh's Supplement to Dr.

...so brilliantly illuminated with torches that scarcely an eye was closed in Jerusalem during that week (Talmud, <i> ''''' Ḥullı̄n ''''' </i> ). </p> <p> The

...h]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 10:32-33); took also Gath, and was only diverted from [[Jerusalem]] by [[Jehoash]] giving the royal and the temple treasures (&nbsp;2 Kings 1 ...glath-pileser, he liked the altar he saw there and had a copy made for the Jerusalem [[Temple]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 16:10-16 ). Damascus sought to gain independence

...''''' </i> ): in &nbsp; Revelation 21:20 : the 10th foundation of the New Jerusalem. Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) and the King James Version tr

...er he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat [rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in d ...m all into the hands of their enemies. [[Nebuchadnezzar]] took the city of Jerusalem, entirely ruined it, and took away all the inhabitants of Judah and Benjami

...es at Corinth, Ephesus, and Rome were as beset with sufferers as was the [[Jerusalem]] temple. [[Ill]] fortune of all kinds being inflicted by the gods, they al ...s place in the windpipe in severe cases of croup. </p> <p> The malady of [[Nebuchadnezzar]] (q.v.), alluded to in &nbsp;Daniel 4:33, was a species of ''Melancholy Mo

...erial provinces are Syria, the [[Gauls]] (except Narbonensis), Judaea, and Egypt. These governors were all accountable to the Emperor, being put in charge o ...cius]] Festus (&nbsp;Acts 24:27 ) are specifically named. Joseph's rule in Egypt also is classified as that of a governor (&nbsp;Acts 7:10 ). Because govern

...visited on their head a crime perpetrated by a few thousand inhabitants of Jerusalem, who were not the real forefathers of the European Jews. Nor in the East ha

...by the sagacity of the latter. On Nehemiah’s second visit he banished from Jerusalem <strong> [[Manasseh]] </strong> (a son-in-law of Sanballat, and grandson of ...rival in Judea, he set himself to oppose every measure, for the welfare of Jerusalem. The only other incident in his life is his alliance with the high priest's

...ngly to intimate the subjection that God would bring on the nations whom [[Nebuchadnezzar]] should subdue. Isaiah likewise walked naked, that is, without the rough g ...d about 416 B. C., in the latter part of the administration of Nehemiah at Jerusalem. </p> <p> Christ, of whom all the prophets bore witness, &nbsp;Luke 24:27,4

...tal, Rabbah, was rebuilt in the Greek style by [[Ptolemy]] Philadelphus of Egypt in the 3rd cent. b.c. and named Philadelphia. Its ruins amid the modern tow

...istance the descent is 3,500 ft., one of the greatest chasms in the earth; Jerusalem is 2,581 ft. above the Mediterranean. [[Bitumen]] wells are not far from th ...e, and cruel, and irresistible, the devoted [[Edomites]] were to find in [[Nebuchadnezzar]] and his armies. </p> <p> The water of the river at the time of Maundrell'

...nbsp;Zechariah 13:9 (c) Probably this is a picture of the destruction of [[Jerusalem]] when most of Israel were slain and only a few survived. Titus slaughtered ...flames of fire" (66:15). Jeremiah says in reference to the destruction of Jerusalem that Yahweh "poured out his wrath like fire" (&nbsp;Lamentations 2:4 ). Eze

...ween earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem." But this, and the corresponding suggestion as to the nature of the flamin

...frequently they did not wait so long as their deaths for the apotheosis. [[Nebuchadnezzar]] procured his statue to be worshipped while living; and [[Virgil]] shows t ...eparate articles. </p> <p> (11) Of the gods of Seir, which were brought to Jerusalem by Amaziah, the names are not given (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 25:14 ). </p> <p> (

...Greece, and Rome; the [[Serapis]] of Egypt, Greece, and Rome; the apes of Egypt; the [[Moloch]] of [[Moab]] and the Ammonites; the Baals of Syria, in all t

...return from exile. Perhaps a Levite, as the rabbis say he was buried at [[Jerusalem]] among the priests. Tradition represents him as returning with the first e ...to late traditions, he was born in Babylon, and went up with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem, where he died. In his prophetic work he was associated with Zechariah (&nb

...n of the past miseries. The Jews still use it at "the place of wailing" at Jerusalem. In our English Bible Lamentations fitly comes after the last chapters of J ...e and seek his forgiveness. In the fourth poem there is a contrast between Jerusalem’s former glory and its present ruin, and in particular a contrast between

...its base, could never be omitted. The Levitical cultus was continued in [[Jerusalem]] till the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in a.d. 70, and the atti ...:1-3 . It was twenty cubits long, twenty wide, and ten high. That built at Jerusalem, by Zerubbabel, after the return from Babylon, was of rough stones; as was

...[[Joram]] and Jeroboam, &nbsp;2 Kings 3:13,20 &nbsp; 14:25 . They aided [[Nebuchadnezzar]] against the Jews, &nbsp;2 Kings 24:2 &nbsp; Ezekiel 25:6-11; and after th ...ued them, together with the Ammonites, five years after the destruction of Jerusalem. </p> <p> That continual wars and contentions must have created a feeling o

...ate. Society was corrupt and convulsed within, and the two great powers of Egypt and [[Babylon]] menaced it from without. True lovers of their God and of th

...o a great king. But now bricks in abundance have been found inscribed with Nebuchadnezzar's name, proving that he had built and adorned a magnificent capital. &nbsp; ...world; the [[Passover]] by the Jews, in remembrance of Moses's miracles in Egypt; and the [[Eucharist]] by Christians, as a memorial of Christ's death, and

...e Red Sea. </p> <p> Apart from the significant roles played by the Nile in Egypt and the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, the rivers of the biblical wor

...d, Judaistic Christianity decreased, and, after losing its local centre at Jerusalem, it became ‘the shadow of a shade.’ In the striking words of Guthe ( <i ...11:1 ,Acts 11:1,&nbsp;11:18; &nbsp;Acts 15:7 ). The apostolic gathering in Jerusalem, by the apostolic letter, freed Gentiles from obedience to the law (&nbsp;A

...his more powerful contemporary Jehoash, the conqueror of the Syrians, and Jerusalem was entered and plundered by the Israelites. But their energies were suffic

...ed Version.] ‘engine of siege’), which Titus also employed in the siege of Jerusalem (for description see ‘Helepolis’ in Smith, <em> op. cit. </em> ). In th

...ent of Jesus’ discourse on the Mount of Olives, and the descent of the New Jerusalem out of heaven is a visional symbol of the coming of the Kingdom of God, and ...olutionary who sought to arm his disciples (&nbsp;Luke 22:35-38 ), entered Jerusalem on [[Palm]] Sunday as a king (&nbsp;Mark 11:11 ), challenged the political

...God moved upon the face of the waters." </p> <p> Thales brought also from Egypt the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. [[Brucker]] (Hist. Philos.) in ...evidences that this process was going on in the cities of Asia, Syria and Egypt, but the only extensive account of it remaining is found in the works of Ph

...almyra to Babylon, by the S. of [[Lebanon]] and the coast to Palestine and Egypt, or through the Bekaa and [[Jordan]] valley to the center of Palestine. </p ...self. The true reading is, ‘and Pharaoh-necho removed him from reigning in Jerusalem’ (cf. also the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] ). It was the later action of Nebu

...ael]] and Judah respectively. Occasionally the deliverance from bondage in Egypt is used as a starting-point (&nbsp;1 Kings 6:1), or the building of the [[T ...ronological statement. 430 years is the time assigned to the sojourning in Egypt, both in OT and NT (&nbsp;Exodus 12:40 , &nbsp; Galatians 3:17 ), and the c

...and Pharaoh [[Hophra]] raised the siege of [[Jerusalem]] for a time; but [[Nebuchadnezzar]] returned and took it (&nbsp;Jeremiah 37:1-5; &nbsp;Jeremiah 37:39). A "co ...:2-12; &nbsp;1 Kings 9:27, </p> <p> 2) the second, with a Pharaoh, king of Egypt. &nbsp;1 Kings 10:28-29. </p> <p> When war broke out between [[Amaziah]] I

...o article on "High Priest" only. For the history, Breasted, <i> History of Egypt </i> ; Schurer, <i> History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Chris

...sp;John 10:22-23 mentions the holiday as an occasion on which Jesus was in Jerusalem. </p> <p> <i> The Regular Holidays. The Sabbath </i> . The Sabbath was obse

...until he had finished writing the words of the law and the prophets, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had burnt" (Prayer for Monday; see also [[Prayer]] for Tu

...head, and not simply the face, that is covered in the East: ‘The women of Egypt deem it more incumbent upon them to cover the upper and back part of the he ...ee &nbsp;Ephesians 6:17). </p> <p> &nbsp;Daniel 2:38 (a) This is a type of Nebuchadnezzar and his kingdom, which was more excellent than any of the other world kingd

...nd Thothmes III, the contemporaries of Joseph and Moses (Wilkinson, ''Anc. Egypt.'' 3, 225). In the Homeric poems we find indications of the constant applic ...of silver was interpreted by Daniel to mean the inferior kingdom to follow Nebuchadnezzar's (&nbsp;Daniel 2:32 , &nbsp;Daniel 2:39 ). </p> <p> In the New Testament,

...h the sources used by the Chronicler may have perished; and the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 AD. By this time, however, the Law at least was known by hea

...stand side by side with their husbands. In the era of the deliverance from Egypt, Miriam is ranked with Moses and Aaron (cf. &nbsp; Micah 6:4 ). In the days ...“women,” in other words as weak, unmanly, and cowardly: “In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking

...n the Bedouins </i> , 1830, p. 269; [[William]] Rae Wilson, <i> Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land </i> 2 [Note: designates the particular edition of the wo ...ed a whole sackful of the. They are prepared in different ways. An Arab in Egypt, of whom we requested that he would immediately eat locusts in our presence

...sis 46:26 where it is said that "all the souls which cause with Jacob into Egypt, came out of his loins," or, as the margin renders it, his thigh. By which ...nology of the kingdoms. The nation of [[Greece]] was to be the third after Nebuchadnezzar, even as the head is first, the breast is second, and the thigh is the thir

...h Egypt, should precede the more numerous Jews with their huge colonies in Egypt, in making a Greek translation. It is further against the Jewish tradition

...e confined to the "scribes," excepting a few who like Moses had learned in Egypt (&nbsp;Acts 7:22). The ignorance of the law which this narrative implies ac ...effected under it, by King Josiah, by the solemn [[Passover]] , kept at [[Jerusalem]] in the 18th year of that king's reign, and above all, by the discovery wh

...t, the extreme misery of the Jews, who escaped from the devouring sword of Nebuchadnezzar: "They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were ...s largely brought from the region of [[Hebron]] (Tobler, ''Denkblatter Aus Jerusalem,'' page 180). (See [[Wood]]). As chimneys are but little known in the East,

...nowhere else told that there was any occasion on which it cried; and that Egypt raises an equally loud cry '''''—''''' thus serving to give information u

...l to Molech although they are listed separately as abominations brought to Jerusalem by [[Solomon]] (&nbsp;1 Kings 11:7 ). Chemosh is mentioned prominently in t

...m the enemies of the Jews made their accusation against those in Judah and Jerusalem. &nbsp;Ezra 4:6 . He is supposed to be Cambyses, son of Cyrus. </p> <p> 3. ...city walls, however, awaited the governorship of Nehemiah (who arrived in Jerusalem in 445 BC). Ahasuerus is therefore not involved in the events narrated in t

...sinners after the death of these just men, and the iniquity of the land of Egypt. The fourth (bright) waters were the advent of Moses, Aaron, Miriam, Joshua

...talent of gold. The accompanying cut from the great "Tomb of the Kings" in Egypt, explored by Belzoni, is believed to represent four [[Jewish]] hostages or

...useless. The present walls of the city were built by [[Mohammed]] ‘Ali of Egypt (1832 1840). The fortress, <em> Kal‘at el-Bahr </em> , ‘Castle of the S ...shua 13:6; &nbsp;Judges 18:7. From the time of Solomon, to the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar, Zidon is not often directly mentioned in the Bible, and it appears to have

...the classics respecting them. The account of the illness and insanity of [[Nebuchadnezzar]] is confirmed by Berosus. The edict of Darius the [[Mede]] (Daniel 5) may

...rosperous, commanded the respect of his neighbors; but under [[Amaziah]] [[Jerusalem]] was entered and plundered by the Israelites. Under [[Uzziah]] and Jotham, ...ar, and was defeated, his sons slain before his eyes, and he made captive; Jerusalem was taken in b.c. 586, and the history of the kingdom of Judah was ended. <

...t ruler among the Jews. [[Travelling]] to Palestine, they ascertained at [[Jerusalem]] that the [[Messiah]] was expected to be born in Bethlehem, and directing ...st a general tradition that they were practised from the earliest times in Egypt. The system was, in those remote ages, intimately connected with Sabaism, o

...ed, in the southwest angle of the area, now known as the [[Haram]] area at Jerusalem, and its dimensions were what Josephus states them to be - 400 cubits, or o

...]] carried off all the craftsmen (same word as artificers) and smiths from Jerusalem, &nbsp;2 Kings 24:14 , and he may have made use of their skill to adorn Bab ...ep-market, or at least a sheep-gate, which, like several other gates, (See Jerusalem), appears to have been named from some special bazaar (q.v.) adjoining. (Se

...rch, as the voice which was instrumental in making [[Alexander]] bishop of Jerusalem, and that which exhorted [[Polycarp]] to be of good courage (Eusebiuts, ''H

...[[Armageddon]] is the valley of Jehoshaphat. The five kings (17:13) are [[Nebuchadnezzar]] [[Cyrus]] [[Darius]] Alexander and his four successors. The next is the R

...lem; upon another, Rabbah, the capital of the Ammonites; and upon another, Egypt, &c. After having put these into a quiver, he shook them together, and then ...des, placed at right angles and meeting in a common point (Wilkinson, Anc. Egypt. i, 356). The ancient [[Assyrians]] appear also to have used arrows made of

...ion 17:6; (d) of the interpreters of God's counsels, yet to "witness" in [[Jerusalem]] in the times of the Antichrist, &nbsp;Revelation 11:3; (e) in a forensic ...rnacle was the "Tent of witness," the witness of good things to come. To [[Nebuchadnezzar]] God was witnessed to as the [['God Of Heaven']] To the [[Christian]] He

...s, 21 years; his brother, 21 years; Nabupalassar, 20 years; Nabucodrossor (Nebuchadnezzar), 43 years. Yet Sardanapal is mentioned (p. 44) as having engaged his son N

...</p> <p> Joel reproves Sidon and Tyre for selling children of Judah and [[Jerusalem]] to the Grecians, and threatens them with a like fate, Judah selling their ...ries bones of contention between the Greek kings of Syria in the north and Egypt in the south. So long, however, as their civic autonomy was secure, their f

...what help they could to Nebuchadnezzar, and exulted in the destruction of Jerusalem, stirring the bitterest indignation in the hearts of the [[Jews]] (&nbsp;La

...usalem]] (&nbsp;Acts 11:30 ). They appear along with "the apostles" at the Jerusalem [[Council]] to settle the dispute about [[Gentile]] converts (&nbsp;Acts 15

...king comfort in the assurance, that we are "beautiful as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, and terrible as an army of banners." (&nbsp;Song of Song of Solomon 6:4) < ...the descendants of Kedar occupied the area south of Palestine and east of Egypt (&nbsp;Genesis 25:18 ). They may best be described as nomadic, living in te

...ehemiah 3:22; &nbsp; Nehemiah 12:28 it seems to refer to a district around Jerusalem, and is translated in RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] by ‘circuit.’ ...'''3.''' The flat along the Mediterranean from [[Carmel]] to the brook of Egypt (whose northern part near Joppa is called ''Sharon,'' '''''שָׁרוֹן''

...ainst Octavian. </p> <p> <b> 13. Rome under the Emperors. </b> -In 31 b.c. Egypt was acquired by Octavian, and henceforward the Roman Emperors reigned there ...tus 30 B.C. (Josephus, Ant. 14:14; 15:6). Roman soldiers were quartered at Jerusalem in Herod's time to maintain his authority (Ant. 15:3, section 7). Rome exac

...ancestor, Jehoiachin, is pulled off like a signet ring and handed over to Nebuchadnezzar. By making Zerubbabel "like my signet ring" the Lord may be reversing the c

...ing of the gospel of peace; the multiplication and settling of [[Jews]] in Egypt, Asia, Greece, Italy, and western Europe (Horace, Sat. i., 9:69-71; 4:140): ...acious and merciful God. who keepest covenant.” After the destruction of [[Jerusalem]] in 587 B.C. and during the long period of Exile, confidence in God's prov

...llegory, giving the names [[Aholah]] and [[Aholibah]] to [[Samaria]] and [[Jerusalem]] respectively, to those whom He “bore” (Ezek. 23:4, 37). </p> <p> The .... It had three ribs in its mouth, namely, it seized on Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt. From a [[Hebrew]] root, "to move by creeping": '''''Dob''''' , '''''Dabab'

...ated S.W. of Jerus. near [[Betane]] and N. of [[Kadesh]] and the ‘river of Egypt,’ <em> i.e. </em> the <em> Wady-el-‘Arish </em> ; but any certain ident ...en of Ishmael" it may with some probability be taken as lying Southwest of Jerusalem. It has been conjectured that it may be Chalutzah (Reland, <i> [[Palestine]

...to revolt but seems to have come to terms with [[Nebuchadnezzar]] before [[Jerusalem]] was taken, as we hear nothing of any expedition of that king against her.

...Judah was ended. </p> 4. Later History: <p> When [[Nebuchadnezzar]] took [[Jerusalem]] the [[Edomites]] sided with the [[Babylonians]] (compare &nbsp;Lamentatio

...to Egypt (about B.C. 600 a few years before the taking of [[Jerusalem]] by Nebuchadnezzar), a statement now recognised as a real fact, though some of the details may

...overwhelmed and overcome by the sword of GOD's wrath through His servant, Nebuchadnezzar. (See also &nbsp;Jeremiah 51:57 where the same truth pertains to Babylon).

...nd abounds in such rhetorical terms as characterized the Greek of Northern Egypt about the be ginning of our era. There is no trace of a [[Hebrew]] original