 | 2003 - 322 pages
...God's. // Chronicles 20:15. 2 He [Uzziah] made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad. // Chronicles 26:15. 3 1 will not trust in my bow, neither shall my... | |
 | ...bows, and slings to east stones. 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. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. But when he was... | |
 | John Phillips - 2004 - 232 pages
...15:18-20). We read of King Uzziah, "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. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong. But . . ." (2 Chron.... | |
 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - 2005 - 626 pages
...slings (to cast) stones. 26:15 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. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. 26:16 But when he... | |
 | A. T. Fomenko - 2005 - 562 pages
...gate. . . and fortified them. . . 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" (2 Chronicles 26:9 and 26:15). • 14.31 b. We don't know much about the reign of Theodosius II Junior,... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant - 2005 - 608 pages
...no water for the besiegers. Perhaps some of the uncouth machines " invented by cunning men to be on the towers, and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal," might still remain in their old places — means of desperate defence such as that made in later times... | |
 | Stephen Hassan - 113 pages
...Uzziah in II Chronicles 26:15-21: " 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. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. But when he was... | |
 | Bernard F. Barcio, Ralph Payne-Gallwey - 2006 - 180 pages
...are : 2 Chronicles xxvii.15, 'And he1 made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.' Ezekiel xxvi. 9, 'And he shall set engines of war against thy walls'. Through the latter extract is... | |
 | Evelyn George - 2007 - 354 pages
...rebellion. II Chronicles 26: 15-21 15 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. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. 16 But when he was... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1859 - 622 pages
...800 BC, 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 hind of the Philistines,... | |
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