Bible Dictionary: Syria: Inhabitants of a Warlike People

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Kings 20:23,25
And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
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Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... their neighbours, and supported by a warlike youth, eager ... names of towns in Southern
Syria seems to indicate pretty conclusively that the inhabitants of these ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

The Maccabees.
... gods, and having ordered all the inhabitants to assemble ... third son, Judas, who for
his warlike might was ... obtained from Rome, Egypt, and Syria, an acknowledgment ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson xviii the maccabees.htm

The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... They were high-spirited, warlike, hardy populations, proud of ... being in current use
in Northern Syria at the ... Babylon and Nineveh, much as the inhabitants of a ...
/.../chapter ithe assyrian revival and.htm

A Sedition against Sabinus; and How Varus Brought the Authors of ...
... a great number put themselves into a warlike posture, either ... legions in all belonging
to Syria,] and four ... took Sepphoris, and made its inhabitants slaves, and ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 10 a sedition against.htm

How Solomon Fortified the City of Jerusalem, and Built Great ...
... and when he had slain all its inhabitants, he utterly ... lay so remote from the parts
of Syria that are ... all the Israelites were concerned in warlike affairs, and ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 6 how solomon fortified.htm

John Chapter xii. 26-Dec
... with such religious zeal, and accompanying Him in such warlike array ... among the
Babylonians, and in our Lord's day among the inhabitants of Syria and Palestine ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate li john chapter xii.htm

The Work Awaiting the Worker
... Antioch, a city of half a million inhabitants, became the ... Greek cities, such as Antioch
in Syria and Alexandria ... dreamed of the coming of a warlike hero, whose ...
/.../stalker/the life of st paul/chapter v the work awaiting.htm

A Nation's Struggle for a Home and Freedom.
... the territory already occupied by the older inhabitants. ... of their territory by the
warlike, ambitious Philistines. ... of Syria and Pal., 157-60; Maspero, Struggle ...
/.../kent/the making of a nation/study xii a nations struggle.htm

Of the Three Woe Trumpets.
... The dress of this warlike nation remains to be ... chiefly in the oriental regions of
Syria, Egypt, and ... lands they occupied, they wounded the inhabitants with the ...
/.../mede/a key to the apocalypse/of the three woe trumpets.htm

The Preacher as a Patriot.
... Such were Edom and Moab, Philistia and Syria. ... But to the prophets these warlike powers
were the ... easily captivated the hearts of its inhabitants; and Jerusalem ...
/.../stalker/the preacher and his models/lecture iii the preacher as.htm