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... bodies. So great was its reputation that vast quantities of it are said to have been transported in 1215 A.D. to the Campo Santo at Pisa. When this building was standing entire ...
https://bibleatlas.org/akeldama.htm
... used by Darius; but Alexander the Great, in his pursuit constructed two bridges for the transport of his army (Arrian iii.7) . Under the Seleucids it was called Amphipolis. The ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tiphsah.htm
... toichou) . It seems probable that there was more than one place to which the Assyrians transported captives or exiles, and if their practice was to place them as far as they could ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kir.htm
... king Eniilu paid tribute to Tiglath-pileser, but he divided its lands among his generals, and transported 1,223 of its inhabitants to Sura on the Tigris. In 720, Sargon " ...
https://bibleatlas.org/brook_of_the_arabah.htm
... toichou) . It seems probable that there was more than one place to which the Assyrians transported captives or exiles, and if their practice was to place them as far as they could ...
https://bibleatlas.org/king's_highway.htm
... of the Habor." According to 2 Kings and 1 Chronicles, Shalmaneser IV and Sargon transported the exiled Israelites thither. Philological considerations exclude the identification of the Chebar of Ezekiel 13 , ...
https://bibleatlas.org/habor_river.htm
... king Eniilu paid tribute to Tiglath-pileser, but he divided its lands among his generals, and transported 1,223 of its inhabitants to Sura on the Tigris. In 720, Sargon " ...
https://bibleatlas.org/hamath.htm
... xiv, 1) . This marked the downfall of the Northern Kingdom, the people being transported by the conqueror. That this was not done in a thoroughgoing way is evident from the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/harmon.htm
... king Eniilu paid tribute to Tiglath-pileser, but he divided its lands among his generals, and transported 1,223 of its inhabitants to Sura on the Tigris. In 720, Sargon " ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lebo-hamath.htm
... in Biblical history through the dispersion of the Jews. Ptolemy I, son of Lagus, transported Jews to this and other cities of Libya (Josephus, CAp, II, 4) ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cyrene.htm
... . The narrow pass between the promontory of Carmel and the sea was not suitable for the transport of great armies: the safer roads over the plain were usually followed. So it happened ...
https://bibleatlas.org/jezreel_valley.htm
... To Jonathas, the Chronicler tells us, the cedars of Lebanon were brought in floats for transportation to Jerusalem by the workmen of the king of Tyre ( 2 Chronicles 2:16 ) ...
https://bibleatlas.org/joppa.htm
... ( Acts 27:11 ) proves that it was one of the vessels in the imperial transport service. Leaving Myra they came opposite Cnidus with difficulty, against a head-wind. The ordinary ...
https://bibleatlas.org/crete.htm
... bodies. So great was its reputation that vast quantities of it are said to have been transported in 1215 A.D. to the Campo Santo at Pisa. When this building was standing entire ...
https://bibleatlas.org/field_of_blood.htm
... poor. Glass was also manufactured. VII. Mechanics. The Assyrians were skilled in the transport of large blocks of stone, whether sculptured or otherwise. They understood the use of the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/assyria.htm
... when torrents of water pour down it, sufficient to roll boulders of considerable size and to transport an immense amount of coarse sediment. South of the Dead Sea a muddy plain, known ...
https://bibleatlas.org/arabah.htm
... drain upon the welfare of the country. The inundation covering the plain also provided the easiest transport for great masses from the quarries at the time when labor was abundant. Thus the climatic ...
https://bibleatlas.org/egypt.htm
... had contended with varying fortune (M S) . At length Tiglath-pileser overran the country and transported many of the inhabitants ( 2 Kings 15:29 ) . This seems to have led ...
https://bibleatlas.org/gilead.htm
... prized, not only by the Phoenicians, but by Egyptians, Assyrians and Babylonians, who transported it to their own countries for buildings. The mineral products are few, and the Phoenicians ...
https://bibleatlas.org/phoenicia.htm
... xiv, 1) . This marked the downfall of the Northern Kingdom, the people being transported by the conqueror. That this was not done in a thoroughgoing way is evident from the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/samaria.htm
... were taken prisoners by Nebuchadrezzar on one of his latest expeditions to the west, and were transported to Babylon (Josephus, Ant, X, ix, 7; compare Jeremiah 43: ...
https://bibleatlas.org/dispersion.htm
