Tyre and Alexandria: The Chief Commercial Cities of Scripture TimesMassachusetts Sabbath-School Society, 1865 - 362 pages |
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Alexander Alexandria already ancient city army Ashtaroth Assyrian Baal Babylon beauty Bible brought building built Cæsar called Canaan Canaanites Caphtor carried Carthage centuries chapter children of Israel Christ Christian city of Tyre coast commerce conqueror conquest doubtless earth Egypt Egyptians empire enterprise Ezion-Geber fact famous father glory Grecian Greece Greek Hebrew Hiram hundred inhabitants Isaiah island Israel Jerusalem Jewish Jews Julius Cæsar kingdom land language Lebanon lived lying Mediterranean Mediterranean Sea merchandise miles Moloch mountains nations natural Nebuchadnezzar Nineveh numbers old city Old Testament Phenicians population prophecy prophet Ptolemy Ptolemy Philadelphus race reach Red Sea Roman Rome sacred saith the Lord says Scriptures Septuagint ships of Tarshish shore Sidon Sidonians siege Solomon stones stood strong synagogue Tarshish temple thee things thou thought thousand thy merchants tion trade translation tribes Tyrians Tyrus unto vessels voyage whole worship Zidon
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Page 158 - Thus saith the Lord God, Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Page 131 - I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea : and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
Page 123 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 99 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Page 124 - And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. 11. And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
Page 14 - 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...
Page 160 - Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty ; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness : I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings that they may behold thee.
Page 132 - And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel ; and the levy was thirty thousand men. And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses : a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home : and Adoniram was over the levy.
Page 130 - Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David. 2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, 3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
Page 129 - And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon ; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.