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Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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th the name of the Assyriandeity, Nin). This great city, the ancientmetropolis of Assyria, is first mentioned inGen. x., 11, where it is said to have beenfounded by Nimrod; it is not again noticedin the sacred history till many years subse-quently. At the time of the mission of Jo- corn for all the people in case of a siege. Af-ter the mission of Jonah, which resulted in atemporary repentance, we find prophetic de-nunciations renewed by Nahum. His proph-ecy is almost exclusively directed againstthe city; the ruin of the country and thesovereign being, however, involved in thefall of the capital.1 Zephaniah also predictsthe destruction of Nineveh,-with the kingdomof which it was the capital. In fulfillmentof this prophecy, it was destroyed by Gy-axares, king of Media, and Nabopolassar,king of Babylon, in the seventh century b.c.Thenceforth the once populous metropolisbecame utterly waste. Even its very sitewas unknown. Herodotus passed near it;Xenophon encamped upon it; and yet neither
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Site of Nineveh. nah, we find it in the seat of a powerful mon-archy, the centre of the Assyrian empire.1It is described in the book of that prophetas an exceeding great city of three daysjourney, with 120,000 children, who knewnot their right hand from their left ;2 whichwould make a population of about 2,000,000.According to Diodorus Siculus, it was no lessthan fifty-five miles in circumference, built,no doubt, like the ancient cities of the East,with pastures and pleasure-grounds inter-spersed among streets and houses. Even inBabylon, which was of less extent than Nin-eveh, Diodorus says that there were gardensand orchards, and land sufficient to provide » 2 Kings xix., 36; Isa. xxxvii., 37 ; Jon. iv., 11.—2 Jon. m., 3 ; iv., 11. of these historians seemed aware that theywere close by the ancient mistress of nations.It was disputed, indeed, whether it had notbeen built upon the Euphrates; and thosetravelers who were at all acquainted withits true position could tell of little bu

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