Bible Dictionary: Syria: More Properly the Country Around Damascus

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

2 Samuel 8:6
Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David wherever he went.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... the native Aramaeans"with those Kashdi, properly called Chaldaeans ... our knowledge
is of the condition of Syria at the ... of the Egyptian conquest, the more we are ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

Sargon of Assyria (722-705 BC )
... or subjection, as it might be more properly termed, always ... For more than a century
the Khati had been ... Cilicia, Lycaonia, Cappadocia, and Northern Syria as far ...
/.../chapter iiisargon of assyria 722-705.htm

Jews and Gentiles in "The Land"
... was a special significance in this, as Syria formed a ... Properly to understand the
history of the time and ... its change of name indicate a more Jewish direction on ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 2 jews and gentiles.htm

The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus
... offered by the neighbouring provinces of Southern Syria. ... Properly speaking, there
were no pitched battles between ... inheritance the regions situated more to the ...
/.../chapter iiithe hebrews and the.htm

The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... method of warfare; this was the cavalry, properly so called ... They held the key of
Syria, and though their territory ... position was so strong that for more than a ...
/.../chapter ithe assyrian revival and.htm

In Galilee at the Time of Our Lord
... Tyre on the one side, and to Syria on the ... pronunciation of Hebrew, or rather their
inability properly to pronounce ... iv.14) that they cared more for honour than ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 3 in galilee at.htm

The Nations of the South-East
... As we go northwards into Syria the Canaanitish ... with Egypt, the Midianites were more
purely Arabic in ... Midian was properly the district which stretched along the ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter iii the nations of.htm

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... title would probably be "father of Syria," "father of ... Sinmuballit's son, Khammurabi,
was more fortunate ... by Elam and sometimes by Chaldaea; properly speaking, it ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

Sources and Literature of the Apostolic Age.
... is Palestine, and gradually extends over Syria, Asia Minor ... every one of these causes,
properly understood, points ... the church at Jerusalem, was more local than ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 20 sources and literature.htm

The Old Testament and Archeology
... land, in all its aspects, beginning properly speaking with ... whole, it resembles Hebrew
far more closely than ... established the existence in northern Syria of a ...
/.../the christian view of the old testament/chapter iv the old testament.htm