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Persia from the Earliest Period to the Arab Conquest Williams Sandys Wright Vaux No preview available - 2019 |
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Achaemenian Alexander ancient Antiochus Ardashír Armenia arms army Arsacidae Arsakes Artabanus Artaxerxes Asia Minor Asiatic Assyria Astyages Athens attack Babylon battle Behistán Cambyses cavalry chief Christian conquest Crassus Ctesiphon Cuneiform Cyrus Daniel Darius the Mede death doubt early Ecbatana Egypt Egyptian emperor empire Euphrates feet figure Flandin force Galerius Gomátes Greece Greek hand hence Heraclius Herodotus horse Hystaspes inscriptions Jews Julian Khosrú king kingdom Magian Mardonius Median Mesopotamia Mithradates Mithradates II monarch monuments Morier mountain Nakhsh-i-Rustám native Nebuchadnezzar Nisibis notice Nushírwán Ochus Ormazd Orodes palace Parthian peace perhaps period Persepolis Phraates Phraates III platform princes probably Professor Rawlinson province race reign remarkable revolt Roman Rome royal Sassanian satraps sculpture Seleucidae Shahpúr shew Sir H. C. Rawlinson Sir R. K. Porter success successor Surena Susa Syria throne Tigris tion Tiridates tomb Trajan tribes troops Varahrán victory Vologases Western whole Xerxes Zoroaster Zoroastrian
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Page 81 - Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Page 112 - Where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple, to silver rings, and pillars of marble : the beds were , of gdld and silver, upon a pavement of red and blue, and white, and black marble.
Page 69 - And as I was considering, behold, an hegoat came from the west, on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground : and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
Page 70 - And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes; children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom...
Page 74 - While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken ; The kingdom is departed from thee.
Page 17 - Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
Page 74 - And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praise'd and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation...
Page 74 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...