The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times Till the Conquest by the Arabs, A.D. 640, Volume 1E. Moxon, 1859 - 411 pages |
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Abydos afterwards Alexandria Amasis Amun Amun-Ra Amunmai Amunothph Arabia Arabs army Assyrians Babylon body Bubastis buildings built called Cambyses capital chariots chief civilisation coast colossal statues conquered crown Cyprus death Delta desert Diod Edomites Egyp Egyptian Ethiopia gave goddess gods gold Greek Greek mercenaries Hebrew held Heliopolis Herodotus hieroglyphics honour Hophra hundred Inarus inscriptions Isaiah Israelites Jerusalem Jewish Jews Judæa Karnak king kingdom land land of Goshen Libyan Lower Egypt Manetho Memphis Meroë miles Moses mummy Napata nation Necho neighbours Nile Nubian obelisks ornamented Osiris palace Pelusium perhaps Persians Phenicians Philadelphus priests probably Psammetichus Pthah Ptolemy pyramids queen Rameses Rameses II Red Sea reign religion river sacred Sais sculpture sent ships Shishank side soldiers stone Tanis temple Theban Thebes Thoth Thothmosis thousand throne tombs trade tribes Upper Egypt valley walls wealth worshipped
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Page 110 - Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
Page 377 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Page 139 - But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
Page 51 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Page 139 - Behold, therefore, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
Page 122 - Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord ; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Page 116 - And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour: city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Page 254 - Hecatseus was told that the other tombs had been before destroyed ; and we owe it perhaps to this mistake that they remained unopened for more than two thousand years longer, to reward the searches of modern travellers, and to unfold to us the history of their builders.
Page 339 - Egypt was during this reign at the very height of its power and wealth. It had seen three kings, who, though not equally great men, not equally fit to found a monarchy or to raise the literature of a people, were equally successful in the parts which they had undertaken. Euergetes left to his son a kingdom, perhaps as large as the world had ever seen under one sceptre; and though many of his boasted victories were like letters written in the sand, of which the traces were soon lost, yet he was by...
Page 318 - Part of Ethiopia, Pamphylia, Cilicia, Lycia, Caria, Cyprus, and the isles of the Cyclades. The island of Rhodes, and many of the cities of Greece, were bound to him by the closest ties of friendship, for past help and for the hope of future. The wealthy cities of Tyre and Sidon did homage to him, as before to his father, by putting his crowned head upon their coins. The forces of Egypt reached the very large number of two hundred thousand foot and twenty thousand horse, two thousand chariots, four...