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• Egypt
  ...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
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• Jerusalem
  .... 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>
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• Nebuchadnezzar
  ...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>
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• Pharaoh
  ...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
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• Captivity
  ...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
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• Jehoiakim
  ...[[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; &
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• Zedekiah
  ...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
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• Daniel
  ...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
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• Babylon
  ...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
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• Jehoiachin
  ...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
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• Tyre
  ...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.
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• Ezekiel
  ...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
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• Babel
  ...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.
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• Nebuchadnezzar; Nebuchadrezzar
  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
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• Palestine
  ...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
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• Exile
  ...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,
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• Babylonia
  ...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>
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• Tahpanhes
  ...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>
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...'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
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• Chronology Of The Old Testament
  ...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
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• Book Of Judith
  ...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
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• Nebuchadnezzar The Great
  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
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• Israel
  ...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
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• Hananiah
  ...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
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• Jews
  ...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
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• Habakkuk
  ...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
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• Baruch
  ...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
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• No
  ...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
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• Famine
  ...<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
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• Magi
  ...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
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• Obadiah
  ...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
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• Philistines
  ...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
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• Assyria
  ...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
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• Book Of Zechariah
  ...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
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• Or Nebuchadrezzar Nebuchadnezzar
  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
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• Book Of Lamentations
  ...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
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• Kingdom Of Judah
  ...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
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• History And Religion Of Babylon
  ...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
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• Gedaliah
  ...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
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• Chronology
  ...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
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• Hittites
  ...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
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• Medicine
  ...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
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• Gaza
  ...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
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• Apocrypha
  ...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
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• Book Of. Zechariah
  ...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
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• Syria
  ...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
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• Edom
  ...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
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• Jehoahaz
  ...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
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• Euphrates
  ...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
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• Apocalyptic Literature
  ...(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
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