 | 1850 - 492 pages
...809 years before the Christian era, made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. Uzziah must, therefore, be considered the inventor of them, and from that lime they began to be employed... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 pages
...8G9; years before the Christian era, "made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot, arrows and; great stones withal." It is therefore probable that the : ram. was at least known in those daj?;s, ; although we have no... | |
 | John Farrar - 1852 - 692 pages
...missiles. These are not often referred to in the Bible. We read in 2 Chron. xxvi. 15, that Uzziah " made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men,...bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." See BATTERINGJ.{AM, ARMOUR, and ARMS. On moving to battle, the soldiers were excited to bravery and... | |
 | 1853 - 1116 pages
...the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and t slings to cast stones. 15 r hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day...out from the land of Egypt. 42 It is t°a night to tspread far abroad ; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong. Ifi 1 But hwhen he was strong,... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1855 - 234 pages
...help the king against the enemy. And he prepared for them shields, and spears, and helmets, and bows, and slings to cast stones. And he made in Jerusalem...upon the bulwarks to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad ; for he was marvellously helped till he was strong. Lachish — a noted... | |
 | George Smith - 1856 - 626 pages
...heavy missiles, either for aggression or defense, in the siege of cities. The sacred writer says, " He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning...bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." 3 Chron. xxvi, 15. Without debating the accuracy of the various opinions which have been formed of... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1860 - 432 pages
...history of a contrivance for the propulsion of stones, arrows, and other missiles ; the invention of invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad ; for he was marvellously helped till he was strong. NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS.... | |
 | 1859
...when Uzziah made use of engines invented by cunning men for purposes of defence, placing them upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. Amongst other cities, this king took and brake down the wall of Ashdod, in the land of the Philistines,... | |
 | Charles Henry Owen, T. L. Dames - 1861 - 366 pages
...instruments are treaceable to 1000 years before our era, as we find in 2 Chron. xxvi. 15 : Uzziah " made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men,...bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal." In addition to the machines just named a great many others were used in the llth, 12th, and 13th Centuries,... | |
 | 1861 - 600 pages
...mail, and bows, and slings to cast stones. And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by 15 skilful men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he became 16 mighty. But when... | |
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And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. 
