The Ancient History of the Eqyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians, Volume 6J.P. Ayres, 1831 - History, Ancient |
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Page 2 - And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. And 1 saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns ,- and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him : and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Page 82 - Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. 2 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
Page 161 - Gilead, and possessed himself of all that part of the country, which was formerly the inheritance of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh. The season was now too far advanced to prolong the campaign, for which reason he returned...
Page 2 - Therefore the he-goat waxed very great : and when he was strong, the great horn was broken ; and for it came up four notable ones, toward the four winds of heaven.
Page 311 - For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water...
Page 89 - And in the end of years they shall join themselves together ; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement : but she shall not retain the power of the arm ; neither shall he stand, nor his arm : but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
Page 2 - Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
Page 312 - And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.
Page 90 - But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north...
Page 44 - In this manner did God prepare the way for the preaching, of the gospel, which was then approaching, and facilitate the union of so many nations of different languages and manners into one society, and the same worship and doctrines, by the instrumentality of the finest, most copious, and correct, language that was ever spoken in the world, and which became common to all the countries that were conquered by Alexander.