The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times Till the Conquest by the Arabs, A.D. 640, Volume 1E. Moxon, 1859 |
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afterwards Alexander Alexandria Amasis Amun-Ra Amunmai Amunothph Antigonus Arabs army Arrian Arridæus Arsinoë Artaxerxes Asia Minor Assyrians Athenians Babylon Berenice body Bubastis built called Cambyses chariot chief Cleomenes coast conquered conqueror conquest crown Cyprus Cyrene Darius Delta Demetrius desert Diod Egyp Egyptian Ethiopia Euergetes fleet gained gave gods gold Greece Greek Greek mercenaries Hebrew held Heliopolis Herodotus hieroglyphics honour hundred Inarus inscriptions island Israelites Jewish Jews Judæa Karnak king kingdom land Libyan Lower Egypt Macedonian Manetho marched Memphis Meroë mummy nation Nectanebo neighbours Nile Oasis Osiris Pelusium perhaps Persians Phenicians Philadelphus Pliny priests province Pthah Ptolemy Soter pyramids queen Rameses Rameses II Red Sea reign religion river sacred satrap sculpture sent ships Shishank side soldiers statues Syria temple Theban Thebes Thothmosis thought thousand throne tombs trade troops Upper Egypt valley walls 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...