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... was given free hand and like a dream the most beautiful city of the ancient or modern world (with the single exception of Rome) arose with straight, parallel streets-one at least 200 ...
https://bibleatlas.org/alexandria.htm
... Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships." Acts 19:35 When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he ...
https://bibleatlas.org/ephesus.htm
... to the sea at a very early date and became the most skillful mariners of the ancient world is certain. Their enterprise in this direction is attested by classic writers, and the references ...
https://bibleatlas.org/phoenicia.htm
... , of the advocates of duty, of living in harmony with the intelligence which rules the world for good. He frankly expresses his sympathy with the nobler principles of the Stoic doctrine. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/areopagus.htm
... it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. Acts 2:10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rome.htm
... of 104 ft. In the popular mind-both before and after Shakespeare represented Caesar as bestriding the world like a colossus-this gigantic figure is conceived as an image of a human being of monstrous size ...
https://bibleatlas.org/rhodes.htm
... reads: "The column of Sa-am-mu-ra-mat, the palace wife of Samsi-Adad, king of the world, king of Assyria, the mother of Adad-Nirari, king of the world, king of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/asshur.htm
... character of that land, and one of the most interesting and remarkable physical phenomena in the world. The inundation is produced by the combination of an indirect and a direct cause. The ...
https://bibleatlas.org/nile_river.htm
... trade and commerce into the neighboring countries, and especially into the chief cities of the civilized world. The successors of Alexander, and their successors in turn, encouraged immigration into their territories ...
https://bibleatlas.org/dispersion.htm
... from OpenBible.info Occurrences 2 Timothy 4:10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. Encyclopedia DALMATIA ...
https://bibleatlas.org/dalmatia.htm
... "History" below. 4. Climate: The climate of Egypt is unique in the world. So far as solar heat determines it, the condition is tropical; for, though ...
https://bibleatlas.org/egypt.htm
... culture. But there is no evidence, as yet, in what part of the ancient world the elements of their culture were evolved, although various attempts have been made by scholars to ...
https://bibleatlas.org/babylonia.htm
... devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory. Encyclopedia HIGH PLACE 1. General: (1 ) "High ...
https://bibleatlas.org/high_mountain.htm
... of Galatia: 2 Timothy 4:10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. 1 Peter ...
https://bibleatlas.org/galatia.htm
... the Aphrodite of Cnidus in the South Kensington Museum, one of the loveliest statues in the world. From here also came the huge Cnidian lion. The vast necropolis West of the ruins ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cnidus.htm
... of the northern central plateau is described by Palgrave as one of the most salubrious in the world. 3. Mountains: As has been indicated above, the backbone of the peninsula is ...
https://bibleatlas.org/arabia.htm
... Jewish centers of the Aegean, as well as one of the financial centers of the commercial world in the eastern Mediterranean. Among the benefactors of the people of Cos was Herod the Great ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cos.htm
... the headship of the people through whom God's redemptive purpose was to be wrought out in the world, no less than the mere secular advantage of the firstborn son's chief share in the father's ...
https://bibleatlas.org/esau.htm
... Revelation 16:16 . It is described as the rallying-place of the kings of the whole world who, led by the unclean spirits issuing from the mouth of the dragon, the beast ...
https://bibleatlas.org/armageddon.htm
... ; Septuagint Hailam): A place near which David is said to have defeated the Aramean world under Hadarezer ( 2 Samuel 10:16 ) . Its site is unknown. Cornill and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/helam.htm
... , must be taken as the testimony of one well acquainted with the opinions of the learned world in his time. In Jeremiah 2:10 and Ezekiel 27:6 the isles of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/kittim.htm
... our placing Sinai farther East than Jebel Musa. Lofty mountains, in all parts of the world, have always been sacred and regarded as the mysterious abode of God; and Josephus says ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mount_sion.htm
... . Life would be impossible if the sea was no more. But He who made the world can surely recreate it, clearing it of every vestige of sin and misery and imperfection, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pethor.htm
... which I have built?" He had made the city one of the wonders of the world. The two sieges by Darius Hystaspes and the one by Xerxes destroyed much of the beauty ...
https://bibleatlas.org/accad.htm
... it and all asking Egypt for aid (Rawlinson, Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, chapter ix) . Isaiah had warned Judah not to trust in Egypt ( Isaiah 20 ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mizpeh_2.htm
