The Ancient History: Containing the History of the Egyptians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Medes, Lydians, Carthaginians, Persians, Macedonians, the Seleucidae in Syria, and Parthians, Volume 1Robert Carter, 1844 |
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... Alexander I .............................. Cleopatra . - Alexander II . Ptolemy Auletes , Berenice , Seleucus , Archelaus . Ptolemy , Cleopatra .................. . 175 176 183 197 203 .............. 213 221 238 245 253 255 265 ...
... Alexander I .............................. Cleopatra . - Alexander II . Ptolemy Auletes , Berenice , Seleucus , Archelaus . Ptolemy , Cleopatra .................. . 175 176 183 197 203 .............. 213 221 238 245 253 255 265 ...
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... Alexander the Great when he built Alexandria . There are two allusions in Scripture to the papyrus being used as a material for boats : the one records the fact that the infant Moses was saved in a vessel of this description , Exod . ii ...
... Alexander the Great when he built Alexandria . There are two allusions in Scripture to the papyrus being used as a material for boats : the one records the fact that the infant Moses was saved in a vessel of this description , Exod . ii ...
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... Alexander the Great , who , during his visit to that country , ( about в . c . 332 , ) gave orders for its erection , between the sea and the Mareotic Lake . The architect was Dinocrates , a Macedo- nian . A large part of it was ...
... Alexander the Great , who , during his visit to that country , ( about в . c . 332 , ) gave orders for its erection , between the sea and the Mareotic Lake . The architect was Dinocrates , a Macedo- nian . A large part of it was ...
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... Alexander . These intruders into Egypt appear to have been a tribe of Cushite shepherds from Arabia , and to have cruelly enslaved the whole country under a dynasty of six kings , who were called Hycsos , or King - shepherds . The first ...
... Alexander . These intruders into Egypt appear to have been a tribe of Cushite shepherds from Arabia , and to have cruelly enslaved the whole country under a dynasty of six kings , who were called Hycsos , or King - shepherds . The first ...
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... Alexander of bringing him to the resolve of invading Egypt . One Amyntas , a general in the service of Alexander , had deserted from him , and had joined the interest of Darius . But there was no bond in those days of paganism to bind ...
... Alexander of bringing him to the resolve of invading Egypt . One Amyntas , a general in the service of Alexander , had deserted from him , and had joined the interest of Darius . But there was no bond in those days of paganism to bind ...
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Ancient History: Containing the History of the Egyptians, Assyrians ... Charles Rollin No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 97 - And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them ; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived : And Israel said, It is enough ; Joseph my son is yet alive : I will go and see him before I die.
Page 236 - 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 98 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 112 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 93 - And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
Page 113 - Thus saith the Lord, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt : And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maidservant that is behind the mil) -, and all the first-born of beasts.
Page 13 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 148 - ... thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life...
Page 114 - And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you today : for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Page 93 - And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.