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Akkad Akkadian Antiochus Anunit army Assurbanipal Assyrian Assyrian king Babylonian writing battle begetter Bible Borsippa British Museum brought called Cambyses clay column contract tablets cuneiform cylinder Cyrus Damkina Darius destroyed dingir dwelling Egibi enemy Esarhaddon evil spirits excavated father fortress gate give goddess Istar gods Hades hand heaven and earth incomplete price inscribed inscriptions Isaiah Istar Jerusalem Jews KILNAMANDU king of Assyria king of Babylon king of Elam Lady land lines liver be magnified lonian lord Marduk mayest thou exorcise means Merodach Merodach-Baladan mighty month Moon Moon-god Nabonidus Nabopolassar Namar Naram-Sin Nebo Nebuchadnezzar Nergal Nineveh Ninip palace prayers priest prince Queen reign restored Rimmon river Samas Sargon seal Semitic Sennacherib seven silver Sippara spirit of heaven star stone Sun-god syllabaries temple thee thy heart rest thy liver Tiamat took translation walls wedges words worship
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Page 54 - Thus saith the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates ; and the gates shall not 1 Is.
Page 54 - Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 53 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 51 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Page 51 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem ; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Page 67 - Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground : there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans : for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Page 54 - I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Page 60 - Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expences be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.
Page 51 - God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Page 67 - ... it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.