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... . The chieftains of the associated clans composed the primitive senate or council of elders, which exercised sovereign authority. But as is customary in the development of human society a military or monarchical ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rome.htm
... were allowed to remain on the throne as long as they paid tribute, and perhaps still exercised authority over the towns that had before been subject to them. When the power of Egypt ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sidon_the_great.htm
... or territory? These questions have not merely geographical import; they bear most closely, and exercise determining influence, on many points in the biography, chronology, missionary work and methods of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/galatia.htm
... Phoenician towns seem to have established their independence. Sidon however surpassed her sisters in power and exercised a sort of hegemony over the Phoenician towns, at least in the south, and Acco ...
https://bibleatlas.org/acco.htm
... 1645 to 1669 A.D., Crete fell into the hands of the Turks, who still exercise a nominal suzerainty over the island. 4. Crete in the Old Testament: In 1 ...
https://bibleatlas.org/crete.htm
... of the most jealousy guarded sanctuaries in the world. Only on rare occasions and through the exercise of much political pressure have a few honored Christians been allowed to visit the spot. The ...
https://bibleatlas.org/machpelah.htm
... leads us far back into the mythical period long before the dawn of history. This court exercised the right of capital punishment. In 594 B.C. the jurisdiction in criminal cases was given ...
https://bibleatlas.org/areopagus.htm
... the Cape. Aleppo is now a city of nearly 130,000 inhabitants. The governor exercises authority over a wide district extending from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean. (3 ) ( ...
https://bibleatlas.org/berea.htm
... 2 Samuel 23:13 1 Chronicles 11:15 ) . Sufficient care has not been exercised in reading the Bible statements on this subject. To begin with, Hebrew syntax permits of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/adullam.htm
... the conquest contained a large proportion of Israelites. It was no doubt among these that Josiah exercised his reforming energy ( 2 Kings 23:19 2 Chronicles 34:6 f ) . ...
https://bibleatlas.org/harmon.htm
... brethren in Achaia ( Acts 18:27 2 Corinthians 3:1 ); and he exercised a powerful influence ( Acts 18:27, 28 1 Corinthians 1:12 ); ...
https://bibleatlas.org/corinth.htm
... , etc. Sufficient tablets have been deciphered to determine their general character. Also hundreds of exercise tablets have been found, showing the progress made by pupils in writing, in mathematics, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/babylonia.htm
... these were not confined to any one section of the city. Some synagogues seem to have exercised the right of asylum, the same as heathen temples. One of these was so large ...
https://bibleatlas.org/alexandria.htm
... by argument and persuasion, but, finding Boethus and his party obdurate, he at length exercised his extraordinary powers, banished the offenders and remodeled the constitution, probably in a timocratic mold ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kue.htm
... were allowed to remain on the throne as long as they paid tribute, and perhaps still exercised authority over the towns that had before been subject to them. When the power of Egypt ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sidon.htm
... the conquest contained a large proportion of Israelites. It was no doubt among these that Josiah exercised his reforming energy ( 2 Kings 23:19 2 Chronicles 34:6 f ) . ...
https://bibleatlas.org/samaria.htm
... by argument and persuasion, but, finding Boethus and his party obdurate, he at length exercised his extraordinary powers, banished the offenders and remodeled the constitution, probably in a timocratic mold ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tarsus.htm
... the throne. (2 ) After the decline of Egypt, Tyre regained her independence and exercised the hegemony over most of the Phoenician towns, at least as far North as Gebal ( ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tyre.htm
