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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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