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...sp;Acts 9:10;  Acts 9:19;  Acts 11:19-20). Paul was converted in Syria and carried out his first recorded evangelistic ministry there ( Acts ...bsp;Acts 13:1;  Acts 15:23;  Acts 15:35;  Acts 15:41; etc. (Syria remained under Roman and Byzantine rule till A.D. 634, when it was overrun

...about 606 B.C., when the [[Assyrian]] empire gave way to the Chaldean, and Babylon reached its highest point in fame and power. Upon the return of the [[Jews] ...<i> the Home of the Northern Semites </i> , 1909. See also "Literature" in Assyria . </p>

...sp;Acts 7:2). (For details see [[Aram; Assyria; Babylon; Euphrates; Syria; Tigris]] ) </p> ...mous rivers, and by Moses called [[Padanaram]] that is, <em> ‘the fruitful Syria,' </em> abounds with corn, wine, oil, fruits, and all the necessaries of li

...ia was overthrown, as a warning of the fatal end of pride. Never again did Assyria rise as a nation, for God had said (&nbsp;Nahum 3:19) "there is no healing <p> '''As'sur.''' &nbsp;Ezra 4:2; &nbsp;Psalms 83:8. ''See '' [[Assyria]] ''.'' </p>

...haldee and Syriac, the former prevailed in the E., the latter in the W. of Aram. To express the article it employs an affix instead of a prefix as the Hebr ...o the same neglect. Thus it is at once true that "the sea has come up upon Babylon, and she is covered with the waves thereof" (&nbsp;Jeremiah 51:42); that sh

...ey had a considerable trade in wine, which they sent down the Euphrates to Babylon, &c. At the present day, the [[Armenians]] are the principal traders of the ...the district Minyas, in the upper valley of the ''Murad-Su'' branch of the Euphrates. </p> <p> (3) [[Togarmah]] is noticed in two passages of &nbsp;Ezekiel 27:1

...passage (&nbsp;Revelation 16:12) the sixth angel pours out his bowl on the Euphrates, and its waters are dried up that the way may be ready for the kings (of Pa ...1-12 [title], also Heb. &nbsp; Genesis 24:10 , &nbsp; Deuteronomy 23:4 ), ‘Aram [Note: ram Aramaic.] of the two rivers,’ is Mesopotamia. The word appears

...rab''''' is the Old [[Testament]] name for "the children of the E." (See [[Aram]] .) &nbsp;Isaiah 2:6, "replenished from the E., i.e., filled with the supe ...; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamo

...10:6; &nbsp;Hosea 12:12 , &c; which is not to be confounded with Palestine Syria, into which they afterward spread themselves, still retaining their origina

...> the </strong> r in <em> [[Aram]] </em> <em> [Note: ram Aramaic.] </em> (‘Syria’) having been accidentally substituted for the <em> d </em> of <em> [[Edo ...n the throne of Judah, "the son of Tabeal." Tiglath Pileser having reduced Syria to be tributary before treated Rezin as a rebel, and carried away the [[Syr

...of Moab, [[Molech]] of Ammon, [[Dagon]] of Philistia, [[Hadad-Rimmon]] of Syria. Associated with [[Baalism]] was the worship of [[Ashtoreth]] (Astarte), re ...to the kings of [[Assyria]] and Chaldea, who transplanted them beyond the Euphrates, from whence they never returned. The people of Judah were no less corrupte

...e fortified with a wall".) </p> <p> '''1.''' An Armenian region subject to Assyria, Kurgistan or [[Georgia]] between the Black and Caspian seas (&nbsp;Isaiah ...haz]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 16:9 ), the descendants of the original immigrants to Syria were sent back to Kir (compare the aversion of the ancient Hebrews to being

...the Babylonian account of the creation preserved by Berosus, a priest of [[Babylon]] in the 3century BC, and the [[Theogony]] of the Greek [[Hesiod]] (9th cen