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... its ancient civilisation and of the chronology of its kings, we possess no contemporary monuments of Ecbatana to furnish direct information as to its history. To form any idea of the Median kings ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_9/chapter_ithe_iranian_conquest.htm
... , and to take up arms and make an assault upon the Babylonian Jews that were at Ecbatana; for that was the name they went by. He therefore called to him twelve of ...
https://biblehub.com/library/josephus/the_life_of_flavius_josephus/section_11_but_gamala_persevered.htm
... ] . 2. Achmetha- long supposed to be the capital of Greater Media (the Ecbatana of classical, the Hamadan of modern times), [is] at the foot of ...
https://biblehub.com/library/jamieson/commentary_critical_and_explanatory_on_the_whole_bible/ezr_6_1-12_darius_decree_for.htm
... real power of both nations resided in himself. The nominal king reigns but Cyrus rules at Ecbatana. Powerful as he is, his position is one of even greater danger than power. ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/grant/cyrus.htm
... villages, and "the Medes, obedient to his orders, built the city now called Ecbatana, the walls of which are of great size and strength, rising in circles one within ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_8/chapter_iithe_power_of_assyria_2.htm
... from the engraving of Flandin and Coste. His choice lay between Susa and Persepolis, between Ecbatana and Babylon, according as the heat of the summer or the cold of the winter induced ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_9/chapter_iithe_last_days_of_2.htm
... a Hebrew prophet. Well did the traditions of his country-men represent him as the architect of Ecbatana, or even of Sura, as buried in state — not, like the other saints ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/tuck/daniel's_prayers.htm
... Sennacherib- New races appear upon the scene- The Medes: Deiokes and the foundation of Ecbatana, the Bit-Dayaukku and their origin- The races of Asia Minor- The Phrygians, their ...
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... Carmel: and, in the mountain, a town of the same name, heretofore called Ecbatana. Near that, Getta, Lebba, the river Pagida or Belus, mingling glassy sand ...
https://biblehub.com/library/lightfoot/from_the_talmud_and_hebraica/chapter_10_a_description_of.htm
... Alexander contemplated its restoration, but his designs were frustrated by his early death. Susa and Ecbatana, Seleucia and Antioch, Ctesiphon and Bagdad, became successively the centers of commerce and of ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/tuck/literal_fulfillment_of_prophecy.htm
... on the streets. It was probably on this account that the seat of government was at Ecbatana in summer, and only in winter at Shushan. (T . McEwan.) Parallel ...
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... for five hundred and twenty years. The interesting story of Deioces, and the foundation of Ecbatana is recorded, the account of that city corresponding precisely with that handed down to us in ...
https://biblehub.com/library/calvin/commentary_on_daniel_volume_1/dissertation_20.htm
... used for the statues and vessels of the temple of Bel in Babylon. Alexander's pillage of Ecbatana was valued at 120,000 talents of gold; Cyrus's pillage was 34,000 pounds ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/whitelaw/the_glory_of_solomon_2.htm
... of Anshan as well as of Persia, and whose fief was dependent on the kingdom of Ecbatana:* it is probable that Chaldasa received as her share of the ancient Susian territory the ...
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... granting them permission to build, and this decree was found, after a search, at Ecbatana. Whereupon Darius gave the Jews substantial support, the buildings were finished and dedicated in 516 ...
https://biblehub.com/library/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/ezra-nehemiah.htm
... in Phrygia he had been told that he would die. So it befell with Cambyses at Ecbatana (Her. iii. 64), Alexander King of Epirus at the Acheron (Livy ...
https://biblehub.com/library/theodoret/the_ecclesiastical_history_of_theodoret/chapter_xx_of_the_death_of.htm
... secular historian already quoted informs us that the conquerors carried many talents of gold and silver to Ecbatana, the royal city of the Medea No language could be more explicit than that in which ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/hilman/the_downfall_of_nineveh.htm
... from the practice of Oriental princes. Diodorus tells of Semiramis that, in her march to Ecbatana, she had precipices digged down, and hollows filled up, so as to leave an ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/johnson/the_prophet's_commission.htm
... after he had fled to Susa, then to Persepolis (Pasargadae), and then to Ecbatana, three of the royal residences of the Persian kings, made his escape into Bactria, ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/kirk/vision_of_the_ram_and_the_he-goat.htm
... Ochus, who first set up the image of Aphrodite Anaitis at Babylon and Susa; and Ecbatana set the example of worshipping it to the Persians; the Bactrians, to Damascus and Sardis ...
https://biblehub.com/library/clement/exhortation_to_the_heathen/chapter_v_the_opinions_of_the.htm
... secular historian already quoted informs us that the conquerors carried many talents of gold and silver to Ecbatana, the royal city of the Medes. No language could be more explicit than that in ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/pub/the_downfall_of_nineveh.htm
... Egypt, the foundation of Alexandria- Arbela: the conquest of Babylon, Susa, and Ecbatana- The death of Darius and the last days of the old Eastern world. [Illustration ...
https://biblehub.com/library/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_9/chapter_iithe_last_days_of.htm
... bring back my life?" "I am Artaban the Magian, of the city of Ecbatana, and I am going to Jerusalem in search of one who is to be born King ...
https://biblehub.com/library/van_dyke/the_story_of_the_other_wise_man/by_the_waters_of_babylon.htm
... for his safety, feigned madness, and was sent away. Achmetha [[ 42]Ecbatana] Achor, Valley Of (valley of trouble), the spot at which Achan was ...
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... with all Ardelan and Arak Ajemi . It is indicative of the division that there were two Ecbatanas, respectively the capitals of the two districts. The Medes were a nation of very high ...
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