Bible Dictionary: Beasts: Habitations of Deserted Cities

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 13:21,22
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Zephaniah 2:15
This is the rejoicing city that dwelled carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Book ii.
... from those that bring them to their new habitations. ... of the wildest sort of brute
beasts, which, because ... of other nations, while this Apion deserted his own ...
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Preface to the Benedictine Edition.
... by fire; some given to wild beasts; and not ... all was to be plundered; the habitations
consumed, together ... same time all the Greek philosophers deserted the city ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/preface to the benedictine edition.htm

The Flight into Egypt and St. John the Baptist in the Desert
... the lower story consisted of a great deserted hall like a ... rather live with all these
dreadful beasts than with ... I saw the spring with human habitations round it ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xvi the flight into egypt.htm

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... access, which are still used as habitations by the ... it to the first rank among the
Phoenician cities. ... Bit-Dakkuri had invaded the almost deserted territory, and ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm

The First Theban Empire
... But the ancient royal cities of Kheops and his children ... Delta braved the perils of
wild beasts and of ... Nubian deities, as well as numerous habitations, now in ...
/.../chapter iiithe first theban empire.htm

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... elephants still roamed,** and wild beasts, including lions ... Cities in other parts
of the world, it ... divinities,* elevated above the crowd of private habitations. ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

The Memphite Empire
... its course can escape it: men and beasts, before there ... Two hundred habitations can
still be made out here ... of the foe, the workmen immediately deserted the mine ...
/.../chapter iithe memphite empire.htm

Memoir of John Bunyan
... the Philistines to the fouls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the ... lost his way,
sought direction from a wretched lad keeping hogs"deserted, forlorn, his ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/memoir of john bunyan.htm