Anecdotes: Illustrative of a Select Passage in Each Chapter of the Old Testament, Volume 2Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1835 |
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... Babylon was first deserted of its inhabitants , the Persian kings turned it into a park for hunting , and kept their wild beasts there . When the Persian em- pire declined , the beasts broke loose , so that , when Alexander the Great ...
... Babylon was first deserted of its inhabitants , the Persian kings turned it into a park for hunting , and kept their wild beasts there . When the Persian em- pire declined , the beasts broke loose , so that , when Alexander the Great ...
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... Babylon . The siege of this important place was no easy enterprise . The walls were of a prodi- gious height , the number of men to defend them very great , and the city stored with all sorts of provisions for twenty years . However ...
... Babylon . The siege of this important place was no easy enterprise . The walls were of a prodi- gious height , the number of men to defend them very great , and the city stored with all sorts of provisions for twenty years . However ...
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... is hard . xxi . 21. The king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way , at the head of the two ways , to use divination : he made his arrows bright . Della Vella relates the following method of divina- tion by EZEKIEL XXI . 189.
... is hard . xxi . 21. The king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way , at the head of the two ways , to use divination : he made his arrows bright . Della Vella relates the following method of divina- tion by EZEKIEL XXI . 189.
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