Bible Dictionary: Assyria: As a Power, Was: Most Formidable

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 28:2
Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... reinforcements; but these engagements, however definite, had for the most part been ...
BC, had taught the inhabitants to respect the power of Assyria; but the ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm

Babylonia and Assyria
... In Assyria, on the contrary, the arbitrary power of the monarch ... Most of these officers
seem to have been confined to Assyria; we do not hear of them in the ...
/.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

Costly and Fatal Help
... remonstrances which might have made the most reckless pause ... by calling in the fatal
help of Assyria. Nothing loth, that warlike power responded, scattered his ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/costly and fatal help.htm

Sargon of Assyria (722-705 BC )
... eastern campaign was thus brought to a most successful issue ... the rise and growth
of their power was also ... witness of their downfall under the attacks of Assyria. ...
/.../chapter iiisargon of assyria 722-705.htm

The Prophetic Theme. Rev. Gervase Smith.
... was a Babylon in Egypt, and another in Assyria, and Rome ... is being made to dry up
the most fruitful source of ... who, centuries ago, shook the papal power to its ...
/.../the wesleyan methodist pulpit in malvern/the prophetic theme rev gervase.htm

In the Creation of the World, and all Things in It, the True God ...
... men in the camp of the king of Assyria in a ... with weapons strong enough to drive away
the most formidable foes. ... strong man armed, the prince of the power of the ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 14 in the creation.htm

Debate on the Proposed Invasion of Greece.
... They who contribute thus most liberally I shall consider as ... of Egypt, of Ethiopia,
and of Assyria, and that, too ... and all their resources and power are exhausted ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter iii debate on the.htm

The City and River of God
... echo of the great deliverance of Israel from Assyria in the ... and mark how this metaphor,
in a most simple and ... when He says, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/the city and river of.htm

Jesus at Capernaum.
... had been subjected to the influence of Assyria, had ranged ... one of the great instruments
of power wielded by ... visited Tiberias, a city inhabited for most part by ...
/.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter viii jesus at capernaum.htm

Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire ...
... highlands had been left in the power of tribes ... a distance, that the image of Assyria
rose involuntarily ... argued that Sharduris would be most easily vulnerable ...
/.../chapter iitiglath-pileser iii and the.htm