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... , the commercial center and the home of the native goddess Diana; and because of its wealth and situation it gradually became the chief city of the province. It is to the temple ...
https://bibleatlas.org/ephesus.htm
... 000 talents of gold. Upon his death, Philetaerus (283-263 B.C.) used this wealth to found the independent Greek dynasty of the Attalid kings. The first of this dynasty to ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pergamum.htm
... , who is named among eastern Israelites. The kingdom of Zobah in addition to its mineral wealth must have been rich in vineyards and fruitful fields, and its conquest must have added greatly ...
https://bibleatlas.org/zobah.htm
... their own expense (compare Revelation 3:17 ) . It was a city of great wealth, with extensive banking operations (compare Revelation 3:18 ) . Little is known of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/laodicea.htm
... and vegetation, together with its commercial advantages in location, the city soon rose to great wealth and importance. Greater fame, however, came to it through its distinguished citizens. It ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cyrene.htm
... streets and the sides and summit of the Acropolis of Athens. A large part of this wealth of art was in full view of the speaker, and the apostle naturally made this extraordinary ...
https://bibleatlas.org/areopagus.htm
... plant is grown in the plain of Gennesaret. In their season the wild flowers lavish a wealth of lovely colors upon the surrounding slopes; while bright-blossoming oleanders fringe the shore. Coming westward ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sea_of_chinneroth.htm
... Greek trade routes, but upon the lesser road between Pergamos and Sardis, and derived its wealth from the Lycus valley in which it rapidly became a commercial center, but never a metropolis ...
https://bibleatlas.org/thyatira.htm
... plant is grown in the plain of Gennesaret. In their season the wild flowers lavish a wealth of lovely colors upon the surrounding slopes; while bright-blossoming oleanders fringe the shore. Coming westward ...
https://bibleatlas.org/chinnereth.htm
... receiving through Lake Mareotis the products of Upper Egypt, reaching by the Great Sea all the wealth of the West, while through the Red Sea its merchant vessels brought all the treasures of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/alexandria.htm
... plant is grown in the plain of Gennesaret. In their season the wild flowers lavish a wealth of lovely colors upon the surrounding slopes; while bright-blossoming oleanders fringe the shore. Coming westward ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sea_of_chinnereth.htm
... plant is grown in the plain of Gennesaret. In their season the wild flowers lavish a wealth of lovely colors upon the surrounding slopes; while bright-blossoming oleanders fringe the shore. Coming westward ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sea_of_galilee.htm
... plant is grown in the plain of Gennesaret. In their season the wild flowers lavish a wealth of lovely colors upon the surrounding slopes; while bright-blossoming oleanders fringe the shore. Coming westward ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sea_of_tiberias.htm
... plant is grown in the plain of Gennesaret. In their season the wild flowers lavish a wealth of lovely colors upon the surrounding slopes; while bright-blossoming oleanders fringe the shore. Coming westward ...
https://bibleatlas.org/chinneroth.htm
... its temple of the goddess Cybele, whose worship resembled that of Diana of Ephesus. Its wealth was also partly due to the gold which was found in the sand of the river Pactolus ...
https://bibleatlas.org/sardis.htm
... 15:21-32 ; Joshua 19:1-9 1 Chronicles 4:28-33 ) -and the wealth of cattle evidently was great (compare 1 Samuel 15:9 ; 1 Samuel 27: ...
https://bibleatlas.org/negev.htm
... , the only object above ground left today to mark the site of the ancient city of wealth and luxury and immorality-the city of vice paragraph excellence in the Roman world. Near the temple ...
https://bibleatlas.org/corinth.htm
... i.e. "idolatry," may possibly represent an original beth- on, "house of wealth." Wilson (PEFS, 1869, 126) suggests Khirbet An, West of Michmash ...
https://bibleatlas.org/beth-aven.htm
... names a variety of rock-crystal and the beryl are intended. The chief source of the island's wealth, however, lay in its mines and forests. Silver is mentioned by Strabo (loc ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cyprus.htm
... 15:20 Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/assyria.htm
... of Daton with the aid of the exiled Athenian statesman Callistratus, in order to exploit the wealth, both agricultural and mineral, of the neighborhood. To Philip, who ascended the Macedonian ...
https://bibleatlas.org/philippi.htm
... presents no difficulty. In Proverbs 18:11 we are told that "The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And as a high wall in his own imagination." In ...
https://bibleatlas.org/red_sea.htm
... is called the nobilitas for the sake of distinction. It rested ultimately upon the foundation of wealth. The dignity conferred by the holding of public magistracies was its title to distinction. The ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rome.htm
... for the allies. Sennacherib, however, himself claims the victory, and describes with great wealth of detail the horrors of the fight. Next year (689 B.C.) Sennacherib marched ...
https://bibleatlas.org/elam.htm
... was raised by means of an assessment of 50 talents each upon all the men of known wealth. The payment of this tribute is mentioned on the Assyrian monuments, the date being 738 ...
https://bibleatlas.org/israel.htm
