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2 Chronicles 26:10
Also he built towers in the desert, and dig many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: farmers also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
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Egypt and Greece.
... They accordingly built beautiful temples, whose white and ... were, under their hands
into towers, battlements, and ... There were ranges of enormous columns, colossal ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter ii egypt and greece.htm

Concerning Masada and those Sicarii who Kept It; and How Silva ...
... to make a lamentation according to the deserts of those ... erected upon that wall
thirty-eight towers, each of ... pass into lesser edifices, which were built on the ...
/.../chapter 8 concerning masada and.htm

Book I to Pleasant Songs My Work was Erstwhile Given, and Bright ...
... whose wont it is to smite down lofty towers, may flash ... that which perishes, and where
your eyes were looking there ... it seemly that I, whom you had built up to ...
/.../boethius/the consolation of philosophy/book i to pleasant songs.htm

Babylonia and Assyria
... and here accordingly they built the towers whose summits ... of death, leaving behind
him the deserts of Arabia and ... The tombs were built of crude bricks, and were ...
/.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

Manasseh and Josiah
... the utter destruction of their fair city, where stood the temple built by Solomon ...
And the everlasting mountains were scattered,. ... And against the high towers.". ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 32 manasseh and josiah.htm

The Psalter of Solomon.
... manner in which he has developed and built upon the ... rams destroyed one of the largest
towers, and he ... A cruel massacre ensued; the priests were cut down even ...
//christianbookshelf.org/deane/pseudepigrapha/the psalter of solomon.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... only were the royal cities fenced with walls, but many of the surrounding villages
were fortified, while the watch-towers, or migdols* built at the ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

The Glory of the Cross
... the house which our tyrants had built, and overwhelmed ... if His whole human life and
nature were the brightest ... the Cross upon which Christ died towers above all ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/the glory of the cross.htm

The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... He built a flotilla at Shuru in Bit-Khalupi on which he embarked his troops. Wherever
the navigation of the Euphrates proved to be difficult, the boats were ...
/.../chapter ithe assyrian revival and.htm

The Reaction against Egypt
... security was ensured by a number of fortresses and isolated towers built along it ...
Their flocks were carried off, their trees cut down, their harvests destroyed ...
/.../chapter iithe reaction against egypt.htm

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