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... little importance. The town possesses considerable which is of archaeological interest. The outer harbor was protected by ancient walls and towers now in ruins; its entrance was closed with a chain. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/attalia.htm
... filled with loose stones, is 8 ft. thick, and the larger outer wall was protected with towers at intervals of 60 ft. The ancient road leading to Troas was well paved ...
https://bibleatlas.org/assos.htm
... were being oppressed by the people of Gortyna, and appealed to Rome, which granted them protection. In strengthening the position of the Jews, the Romans were copying the Seleucid policy in ...
https://bibleatlas.org/crete.htm
... at intervals with courses of burned bricks. Along the outer upper edge was a parapet, protected by battlements. From the floor of the parapet small holes were bored vertically downward, so ...
https://bibleatlas.org/asshur.htm
... 3 :271) . About the same period the Roman Senate, being anxious to extend protection to the Jews, had a circular letter written in their favor to the kings of Egypt ...
https://bibleatlas.org/dispersion.htm
... : The town to which the Beerothites tied, and where they lived as gerim, or protected strangers ( 2 Samuel 4:3 ) . The place need not have been beyond the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/gittaim.htm
... in the East, to promote their common interests in trade and commerce, and for mutual protection against the peoples surrounding them. This particular league seems to have been constituted about the time ...
https://bibleatlas.org/decapolis.htm
... occupied a central position on the northern shore of a recess in the Gulf of Naples, protected on the West by the peninsula of Baiae and Cape Misenum. It was originally a colony ...
https://bibleatlas.org/puteoli.htm
... of a caravan, while the mountain on one side and the lake on the other would protect them from a flank movement by Pharaoh and limit his army to harassing the rear of the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/red_sea.htm
... , and through barren areas of red sandstone, where the cedars of Lebanon would flourish if protected from the depredations of man and his domestic animals, he crosses by turns at higher and ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lebanon.htm
... of Zeruiah," David's nephews, whose loyalty and whose ruthless cruelty became at once a protection and a menace to their royal relative: in 2 Samuel 2:32 it is mentioned ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lehem.htm
... of Zeruiah," David's nephews, whose loyalty and whose ruthless cruelty became at once a protection and a menace to their royal relative: in 2 Samuel 2:32 it is mentioned ...
https://bibleatlas.org/bethlehem_2.htm
... ." This is the great volcanic range which stands on the edge of the desert, protecting the fertile reaches of el-Chauran from encroachment by the sand, known at different times as Mons ...
https://bibleatlas.org/hauran.htm
... ; Delitzsch from tsiwwah, "to set up" and Wetzstein from tsin, "to protect." Gesenius finds a more hopeful suggestion in the Arabic equivalent cihw, the Arabic cahwat ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mount_zion.htm
... were specially lax, worshipping angels. Of them, Michael was the chief, and the protecting saint of the city. It is said that once he appeared to the people, saving ...
https://bibleatlas.org/colossae.htm
... father's tent ( Genesis 21:21 ) . Hither also came David when bereaved of Samuel's protection ( 1 Samuel 25:1 ) . (3 ) Mount Paran ( Deuteronomy 33: ...
https://bibleatlas.org/el-paran.htm
... where it flows out of Lake Prasias or Cercinitis. It lay on a terraced hill, protected on the North, West and South by the river, on the East by a wall ...
https://bibleatlas.org/amphipolis.htm
... father's tent ( Genesis 21:21 ) . Hither also came David when bereaved of Samuel's protection ( 1 Samuel 25:1 ) . (3 ) Mount Paran ( Deuteronomy 33: ...
https://bibleatlas.org/paran.htm
... the traditional scene of Christ's temptation) that it was within easy reach of the spies, protected by Rahab. It was in the lot of Benjamin ( Joshua 18:21 ), ...
https://bibleatlas.org/plains_of_moab.htm
... father's tent ( Genesis 21:21 ) . Hither also came David when bereaved of Samuel's protection ( 1 Samuel 25:1 ) . (3 ) Mount Paran ( Deuteronomy 33: ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mount_paran.htm
... 44 ) . It occupied such a position that Rehoboam thought well to fortify it for the protection of Jerusalem ( 2 Chronicles 11:8 ) . In the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah ...
https://bibleatlas.org/moresheth.htm
... 44 ) . It occupied such a position that Rehoboam thought well to fortify it for the protection of Jerusalem ( 2 Chronicles 11:8 ) . In the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mareshah.htm
... Millo may have been a fortress "off the south end of Ophel, to retain and protect the old pool," and Vincent suggests that the site of Millo is that now occupied ...
https://bibleatlas.org/millo.htm
... on the mountain today are those of Justinian's fortress, built in 533 A.D., to protect the church which had been erected in 475 A.D. Near the center of the plateau is ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mount_gerizim.htm
... and here the golden casket of the conqueror was placed in a fitting mausoleum. Under the protection of the first two Ptolemies and Euergetes Alexandria reached its highest prosperity, receiving through Lake Mareotis ...
https://bibleatlas.org/alexandria.htm
